Winner of the Tomlinson Book PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United...
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What we call a part of the world - Asia, Europe, the Middle East - seems innocuous. But the name of a region is totemic: a mental map that guides the decisions of leaders and the story...
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The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based...
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Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary, this sweeping narrative is an astute exploration of the five critical military events that changed the outcome of the Revolutionary...
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How did Roman emperors maintain their mystique and authority in an age of unprecedented challenges? From the crisis-ridden third century to Justinian's ambitious sixth-century...
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As the only person to rise from entry-level analyst to Director of the CIA and to serve on the White House staffs of four Presidents, Robert Gates is uniquely qualified to tell the...
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s...
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From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades,...
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Език: Английски език, Корици: С меки корици, Брой страници: 136, Издателство: Cosimo Classics, Автор: R H Charles, ISBN-13: 9781602065680, Дата на издаване: 2007...
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From the author of the bestselling "The Bedford Boys" comes the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at...
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A fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove--"a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics,...
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In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey...
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A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class--and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States'...
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The Rise of the Russian Empire chronicles the transformation of Russia from a divided tsardom into a dominant European empire during the pivotal reigns of Peter the Great and Empress...
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Език: Английски език, Корици: С твърди корици, Брой страници: 304, Издателство: THESIS, Автор: MCMAHON SHARON, ISBN-13: 9780593541678, Дата на издаване: 2024...
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From the philosophical ruler Marcus Aurelius to the ambitious reformer Justinian, The Last Caesars charts the dramatic transformation of the Roman Empire during its final centuries...
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Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. While many settled in major American cities,...
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This edition of the classic Rambles Round Glasgow features:a new introduction placing MacDonald in his context;extensive notes for the modern reader;an index. Let Hugh MacDonald's...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...
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A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha PowerWhen Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the...
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In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people...
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Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his...
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In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U. S. government further deteriorated...
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Subtitled, Jefferson To Lincoln. Traces an historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War...
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