Basic Books: 1466 books
Men of Fire
Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Deep in the winter of 1862, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, two extraordinary military leaders faced each other in an epic clash that would transform them both and change the course of American history forever.
Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant had no significant military successes...
July 1914
Countdown to War
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A bold, gripping history of the first month of World War I
When an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. Indeed, as award-winning historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might...
Ring of Steel
Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers
For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered...
by Richard Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
One of the most admired political leaders of all time, Winston Churchill remains an icon four decades after his death. Here, the eminent military historian Richard Holmes offers a remarkable reappraisal of Churchill by examining the early influences that shaped his character. Drawing on sources such...
The Essence Of War
Leadership And Strategy From The Chinese Military Classics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
From antiquity, the history of China has been marked by invading tribes, warring states, and popular uprisings. This heritage of conflict produced a body of martial literature exploring the fundamental principles of warfare and their methods of employment. Fully aware of the tragic consequences of...
The Sword and the Shield
The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from...
The Last Giant of Beringia
The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The intriguing theory of a land bridge linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated since the idea was first proposed in 1589. But proof of the land bridge-now named Beringia after eighteenth-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering-eluded scientists until...
At the Edge of the Precipice
Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debate over slavery grew rancorous. An influx of new territory prompted Northern politicians to demand that new states remain free; in response, Southerners baldly threatened to secede...
The Infinity Puzzle
Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of...
Massive
The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the “God" particle, or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures,...
If By Sea
The Forging of the American Navy--from the Revolution to the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed...
Vaclav Havel
A Political Tragedy In Six Acts
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous events of his times. Havel's life, like that...
No End Save Victory
How FDR Led the Nation into War
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An acclaimed historian reveals how Roosevelt and his cabinet engineered America's entry into-and ultimate victory in-World War II.
The Illusion Of Victory
America In World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In this sweeping historical canvas, Thomas Fleming undertakes nothing less than a drastic revision of our experience in World War I. He reveals how the British and French duped Wilson into thinking the war was as good as won, and there would be no need to send an army overseas. He describes a harried...