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The Last 100 Days
The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one...
by Dana H. Allin, Timo Behr, David P. Calleo
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The essays in this volume examine selected national, regional European, and international policies of Charles de Gaulle, giving consideration to their significance in his own time, and today. Not everything de Gaulle did withstands the test of time. Nor, obviously, was everything beyond criticism...
by John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.' Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the foundational text of modern liberalism. In it...
Dreamers of a New Day
Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off...
An East Oxford Education
A history of East Oxford School
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
East Oxford Primary School has been serving the local community for almost 150 years. Its story mirrors the development of the education system in the United Kingdom, as the school both responded to and shaped changing national policies.
Drawn from the school's extensive log books, photographic records,...
Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen
The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification for...
by John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by Nicola Cortese, Samuel Dwyer, Graeme Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The T-55 tank first appeared in 1958, a result of numerous improvements made to the (1949) T-54 series, and with a lineage stretching back to the wartime T-34 and the T-44. The T-55 series has seen service around the world with many armed forces, including the Warsaw Pact countries, Afghanistan, Angola,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Few periods in American history have been explored as much as the Progressive Era. It is seen as the birth-place of modern American liberalism, as well as the time in which America emerged as an imperial power. Historians and other scholars have struggled to explain the contradictions of this period...
Rethinking World War Two
The Conflict and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading controversies surrounding the conflict, its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the modern world.
The...
The British Empire
A History and a Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs, strengths and weaknesses of empire are a major topic in global history, and deservedly so. Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history, the British empire, Jeremy Black provides not only a...
War in Europe
1450 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
War in Europe is an overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume. Beginning with the impact of the Reformation and continuing up to the present day, Jeremy...
Britain and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974
Conflict, Colonialism and the Politics of Remembrance in Greek Cypriot Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book examines the ideological and socio-political discourses shaping the remembrance and representation of Britain and the Cyprus conflict of 1974 within Greek Cypriot society. By combining the official with the popular and drawing on an extensive range of oral history interviews, this monograph...
Voyaging in Strange Seas
The Great Revolution in Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed—Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview...