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Year Zero
A History of 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II
Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on...
by William Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, this landmark account was written between 1630 and 1647. It vividly documents the Pilgrims' adventures: their first stop in Holland, the harrowing transatlantic crossing aboard the Mayflower, the first...
The Burden of Guilt
How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).
The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European...
Gurkha Tales
From Peace and War, 1945–2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
J. P. CROSS has spent 67 years among the Gurkhas, first as a serving officer and then as a resident of Nepal, being the only foreigner in the history of the country to be allowed to be both a house- and land-owner. His language ability is such that, even after 90 minutes of being interviewed on the...
The Flames of War
The Fight for Upper Canada, July-December 1813
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
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In April 1813 the Americans launched a new campaign to conquer Upper Canada, after their failure to do so in 1812. However, following initial victories, the U.S. assault stalled as a combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Native allies counterattacked,...
The Yugoslav Wars (2)
Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia 1992–2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Following the death of the Yugoslavian President Tito in 1980, the semi-autonomous republics and provinces that he had welded into a multi-cultural nation in 1945 slid gradually towards separation. For ten years following 1991, the world watched in horror as a series of bloody wars ripped a modern...
1607
Jamestown and the New World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
1607 vividly tells the story of the founding of Jamestown, recounting the situation of the original Indian inhabitants, the arrival of the British settlers 400 years ago, the building of the town, and modern excavations at the site. Along the way, we meet such familiar figures as King James, John...
by Kate Caffrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to cook, eat, sleep, dress and all the rest of living.
During the months-long journey, one Pilgrim...
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own words
This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman...
by Paul Preston
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2007
The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.
Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking...
The Great Wave
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying...
by Shlomo Aloni
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The light and agile A-4 Skyhawk was the first modern American jet to be offered to the Israeli Air Force, marking the point where the US took over from France as Israel's chief military supplier. Deliveries began too late for the A-4 to fight in the Six-Day War, but it soon formed the backbone of...
Six Days of War
June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally—now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective
Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped...
The Pursuit of Power
Europe 1815-1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
**An Economist Best Book of the Year
“Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal
From the bestselling author of The Third Reich...