Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
by W. Stephen Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The first critical biography of the innovative television writer whose off-kilter creations helped spark the Golden Age of modern television.
TV writer Dennis Potter is widely credited with revolutionizing television. The innovative shows he created for the BBC, including The Singing Detective...
Monty and Rommel
Parallel Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
In the span of a few short years, they fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theaters of war. Ever since, historians have assessed their outstanding leadership, personalities, and skill. Monty and Rommel is the first comparative biography written of these two extraordinary soldiers....
The Horses of St. Mark's
A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the mysterious origin of the statues and their turbulent movements through Europe over the centuries: in Constantinople, at both its founding and sacking in the Fourth Crusade; in Venice, at both the height of...
by Leo McKinstry
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive—a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land invasion—to subdue his final enemy. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail. As Leo McKinstry details in this fascinating new history,...
Churchill's War Lab
Code Breakers, Scientists, and the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator, and, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leader of men --Winston Churchill's greatness in the allies' triumphant victory in World War ii is undisputed. yet, of his many unique qualities, Churchill's enduring legacy is attributable at least...
War of Attrition
Fighting the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014!The Great War of 1914“1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world’s great economies. Now, one hundred...
A Nation and Not a Rabble
The Irish Revolution 1913-1923
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Renowned Irish historian Diarmaid Ferriter presents a fresh look at the Irish revolutionary period from 1913-1923, drawing from newly available historical sources as well as the testimonies of the people who lived and fought through this extraordinary period. Ferriter highlights the gulf between rhetoric...
Constantine
Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
"By this sign conquer." So began the reign of Constantine. In 312 A.D. a cross appeared in the sky above his army as he marched on Rome. In answer, Constantine bade his soldiers to inscribe the cross on their shield, and so fortified, they drove their rivals into the Tiber and claimed Rome...
by Hiroaki Sato
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors. Through his masterful translations of original samurai tales, laws, dicta, reports, and arguments accompanied by insightful...
Ataturk
The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan, and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first...
Operation Kronstadt
The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
An MI6 officer’s account of a heart-pounding mission to rescue a spy trapped in Russia, “as exciting as anything found in fiction” (Daily Mail).
Paul Dukes, a thirty-year-old concert pianist, was a master of disguise—dubbed ‘The Man with a Hundred Faces’—and an English spy in Russia....
Marathon
How One Battle Changed Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. is not only understood as the most decisive event in the struggle between the Greeks and the Persians, but can also be seen as perhaps the most significant moment in our collective history. 10,000 Athenian citizens faced a Persian military force of more than 25,000....
Thermopylae
The Battle That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks—led by King Leonidas and a small army of Spartans—took the battle to the Persians at Thermopylae,...
From Democrats to Kings
The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Michael Scott explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world was turned from a democracy into a monarchy in this superb example of popular history writing.