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The Shadow of War
Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history.
Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that...
Bandido
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many...
by Andrew Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy served with distinction in every theatre of war throughout World War II. From its poorly equipped beginnings it started the war with few suitable, modern, carrier-born fighters to the final campaigns over the Japanese home islands, the FAA proved an effective...
F6F Hellcat vs A6M Zero-sen
Pacific Theater 1943–44
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The Grumman F6F Hellcat and Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen were the two principal opposing fighters in the brutal aerial clashes of the Pacific War from 1943 onwards. Reminiscent of the preceding F4F Wildcat, the F6F Hellcat was designed specifically to counter the earlier A6M2 Zero-sen, the strengths and...
by Barrett Tillman
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The first monoplane aircraft ordered by the US Navy for carrier operations, the Douglas TBD Devastator was designed to fulfil a requirement for a new torpedo bomber. Just 129 were built, and when it entered service it was the most modern aircraft of its type anywhere in the world. Its only real taste...
by Ronald T. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The coastal city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire suffered three devastating urban fires in the early 1800s. Collectively, they are known as the Great Portsmouth Christmas Fires because each one flared during the Yuletide season. The Great Parade Fire demolished the center of town on Christmas Night,...
1813: Empire at Bay
The Sixth Coalition & the Downfall of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
A distinguished historian and British Army veteran examines the political and military alliances that led to the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1813 was a critical year in the war that ended with the downfall of Napoleon—the year in which the balance of power tipped decisively against...
Waterloo 1815
The Birth of Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's greatest generals Napoleon and Wellington. This volume covers the entire campaign including the battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny...
An Empire on Trial
Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870–1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay...
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
A Transnational and Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. European countries have never compensated their former colonies...
Reviving Phoenicia
The Search for Identity in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
'Reviving Phoenicia' follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria...
Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610–1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early modern...
by Bruce Gudmundsson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Bruce Gudmundsson guides us expertly through the history of the British Expeditionary Force in 1916 as it struggled to become a modern army and turn the tide of the First World War. Examining the tactical innovatio0ns that accompanied this change and the conflicting strategies and tactics that it...
Revolution and the State
Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of the libertarian organisations...