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by George Mellinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The Yak-1 entered Soviet service in 1941, one of three modern types of aircraft accepted for production just prior to the German invasion of the USSR. Despite initial shortcomings, it soon proved to be the thoroughbred of the Soviet Airforce. Indeed, it remained in production until the end of the...
Berlin 1961
Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about.
Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War-and more perilous. It was...
Pol Pot
Anatomy of a Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times
In the three and a half years of Pol Pot's rule, more than a million Cambodians, a fifth of the country's population, were executed or died from hunger. An idealistic and...
The Kings of Ayutthaya
A Creative Retelling of Siamese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Part fact, part fiction, part myth, and part legend, this book brings to life the kingdom of Ayutthaya from its roots in the kingdom of Sukhothai to its eventual destruction by the Burmese in the year 1767. It is the turbulent story of both the kings and their kingdom, from its birth to its downfall.
Robert...
Nehru
The Invention of India
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who-alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi-led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule...
Three Armies on the Somme
The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World...
The Burning Tigris
The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes
In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using...
by M. Sükrü Hanioglu
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile....
An Inconvenient Genocide
Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The most controversial question that is still being asked about the First World War - was there an Armenian genocide? - will come to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians worldwide will commemorate its centenary and Turkey will deny that it took place, claiming that the deaths of over half of the...
Guns Of Independence The Siege Of Yorktown 1781
The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare;...
China
How the Empire Fell
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia...
by Yücel Güçlü
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 demonstrates the vital importance of Ottoman and other relevant archives in Turkey for the study of the Armenian question. Historians, assisted by newly discovered or recently published materials, must continually...
Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed....
Blood and Sand
Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956—a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic...