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Arabs and Israelis
Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The Arab-Israeli conflict has proven to be one of the most protracted and bitter struggles of modern times, and has been extraordinarily resilient in the face of all efforts to resolve it.
Written by a distinguished team of authors comprising an Israeli, a Palestinian, and an Egyptian presenting...
Crusader
General Donn Starry and the Army of His Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Although he missed combat in World War II and Korea, Donn Starry became one of the most influential commanders of the Vietnam War, and after Vietnam was one of the “intellectual giants” who reshaped the US Army and its doctrines. Throughout his career he worked to improve training, leadership...
Beyond No Mean Soldier
The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Peter McAleese needs little introduction... His classic book "No Mean Soldier" was an immediate bestseller and set the bar for the modern military memoir. Few have since met its match. This completely revised and expanded edition sees a philosophical McAleese revisiting his time with Britain's...
Past to Present
A Reporter's Story of War, Spies, People, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
William Stevenson may be best known for his friendship with and books about another William Stephenson, otherwise known as Intrepid, whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history. Originally published in 1976, A Man Called Intrepid sold over 2 million copies and quickly became...
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Bestseller
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American...
Death in the Air
The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.
London was still recovering from the devastation...
by Amy Knight
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
On September 5, 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with his embassy in Ottawa, Canada, reporting allegations to authorities of a Soviet espionage network in North America. His defection - the first following the end of WWII, occurring less than a month after atomic bombs exploded...
Unfinished Empire
The Global Expansion of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium-a work that...
by Arthur Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The division of history into periods may be very misleading if its true purport be not understood. One age can no more be isolated from the universal course of history than one generation from another. The ideas, the principles, the aims of man change indeed, but change slowly, and in their very change...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. ‘Il Duce’, Benito Mussolini, was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism. Famed for his dictatorial style, his political cunning and admired – initially – by Hitler, Mussolini led the National Fascist Party and ruled Italy as...
by Anthony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence...
The Last Day
Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five...
The Guardians
The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied;...
by George Mellinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This book examines the LaGG family of fighters, that were amongst the first modern piston-engined interceptors made available to the Red Air Forces in early 1941and proved far better fighters than their radial-engined predecessors. Despite technical maladies and political interference from Moscow,...