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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The Kyoto Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers. Created using durable coated paper, this map is made to open and fold multiple times, whether it's the entire map that you want to view or one panel at a time.
Following highways and byways, this...
Atlas of Cursed Places
A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Atlas Obscura says this lushly illustrated New York Times bestselling guide to dozens of dangerous, eerie, and infamous locations is the perfect gift for "those who believe the world is still full of mysteries to investigate."
Pick up the acclaimed Atlas of Cursed Places and visit...
An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist
A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of 50 states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the margins of legitimacy in the global order. From long-contested lands like Crimea...
Gold Run
The Rescue of Norway’s Gold Bullion from the Nazis, 1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Gold Run is the true story of arguably one of the greatest gold snatches in history. It is a tale of immense bravery, endurance and great leadership of loyal Norwegians, plus a little good fortune and help from the British against intrigue and overwhelming odds.
The German invasion of Norway...
Champion Hill
Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
The Mississippi battle between Grant’s and Pemberton’s forces that sealed Vicksburg’s fate.
The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The fighting on May 16, 1863, took place just twenty miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen....
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 1. The German Advance The Encirclement Battle and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives 10 July-24 August 1941
The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
At dawn on 10 July 1941 massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers beginning what Adolf Hitler the Führer of Germany's Third Reich and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march...
Mapping Shakespeare
An exploration of Shakespeare’s worlds through maps
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564–1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays.
This beautiful new book looks at the England in which Shakespeare...
With the Courage of Desperation
Germany's Defence of the Southern Sector of the Eastern Front 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the southern portion of the Eastern Front from July 1944, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic...
Quest For The Lost Roman Legions Discovering The Varus Battlefield
Discovering the Varus Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
In 9 A.D. the 17th 18th & 19th Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius-a Roman-trained German warrior determined...
The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941
The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of their...
The Defense of Moscow 1941
The Northern Flank
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The little-known story of the Battle of Kalinin on the eastern front, and how it shaped the course of WWII—based on archival records from both sides.
There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army’s...
Harbors and High Seas
An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This companion for fans of the Napoleonic sea sagas offers maps of the novels’ streets, seas, and coasts, and much more.
The tall-masted sailing ships of the early nineteenth century were the technological miracles of their day, allowing their crews to traverse the seas with greater speed...
by Alex Swanston
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A heavily detailed and illustrated account of special forces units during the Second World War from the author of The Historical Atlas of World War II.
The Atlas of Special Operations of World War II covers special operations from all parts of the armed forces of the Second World War. From...
by Brian Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The most important record source, the mid-19th century survey of Ireland known as Griffith's Valuation, is organized by poor law union, parish, barony, and county. But wills probated before 1858 are organized by diocese, and after 1858 by probate district; while parish registers, marriage license bonds,...