Ian: 5018 books
Enemies and Neighbors
Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sebastian Faulks’s pick for the Guardian’s best books of 2017, a Financial Times and Economist best book of 2017 in politics, and a Sunday Times (UK) best book of 2017. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice pick.
Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced...
Ned Kelly
A Short Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
'the best Kelly biography by a country mile' - The Australian
The definitive biography of Ned Kelly - and a superb description of his times.
A bestseller since it was first published, Ned Kelly: A Short Life is acknowledged as being the definitive biography.
Ian Jones combines...
Months of the Sun
Forty Years of Elephant Hunting in the Zambezi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Ian Nyschens (pronounced \nations\") shot as many elephants as Walter Bell did--well over 1,000--and under much more difficult circumstances. His book will rank or surpass the best elephant-ivory hunting books published in the twentieth century. Remarkably, his adventures took place much later than the...
War at the Edge of the World
Twilight of Empire: Book One
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, newly promoted centurion Aurelius Castus now finds himself stuck in Britain’s provincial backwater. But when the king of the Picts, the savages beyond Hadrian’s Wall, dies under mysterious circumstances, Castus is selected to command the bodyguard...
by Ian Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for the first time....
Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw?s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world?s six major powers made a series of...
by Ian Eshey
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
"I was surprised at how enjoyable it was to flip through all the chapters & stories.""Six Short Stories: Learn Tarot in a Day" uses engaging short stories to help you quickly and painlessly memorize all 78 tarot cards. Learning to read tarot has never been funnier!(Table of Contents...
Stilicho
The Vandal Who Saved Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The period of history in which Stilicho lived was one of the most turbulent in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal revolts and...
Night of the Intruders
The Slaughter of Homeward Bound USAAF Mission 311
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This is the full account of USAAF Mission 311 on 22 April 1944 when American bombers suffered their highest ever loss to German intruders. The German fighters followed the air armada home after the raid, picking individual bombers off on their return over Europe and then over England as the American...
Alexander the Great
Man and God
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Alexander the Great conquered territories on a superhuman scale and established an empire that stretched from Greece to India. He spread Greek culture and education throughout his empire, and was worshipped as a living god by many of his subjects. But how great is a leader responsible for the deaths...
Stealthily by Night - COPP (Combined Operations Pilotage Parties)
Clandestine Beach Reconnaissance And Operations In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1995
COPP (Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) were formed in December 1942, when the need for invasion beach reconnaissance and assault guidance for invasion fleets were officially recognised. COPPs were a revolutionary concept: independent teams, led by Lieutenants, Royal Nay qualified Navigators and...
Making Friends with Hitler
Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Ian Kershaw’s biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time. In Making Friends with Hitler, the great scholar shines remarkable new light on decisions that led to war by tracing the extraordinary story...
Harold
The Last Anglo-Saxon King
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
King Harold Godwineson (c.1022-66) is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman victory. In truth, he deserves to be...
Death by a Thousand Cuts
The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support?...