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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania "Both terrifying and enthralling."- Entertainment...
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the
The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (The Authorized Doubleday/Doran
In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence-forever known as Lawrence of Arabia-recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with...
The Dark Valley
Piers Bendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade, child of one world war and parent of the next, that determined the course of...
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2025
An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 This is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and...
The Battle for Empire: The Very First World War, 1756-63
This text explores the conflict that began in 1756 and ended in 1763, generally known as the Seven Years War, which the author believes laid the foundations of the British...
Lest We Forget Forgotten Voices from 1914-1945
The phenomenally successful FORGOTTEN VOICES series, based on eye-witness accounts taken from the Imperial War Museum's vast sound archive is now collected together for the first time. LEST WE FORGET...
Alpha Bravo Delta Guide To The Korean Conflict
A comprehensive overview of Koreas troubled past. Put the headlines in context with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow overview of Koreas social, political, and military evolution. From its early history as...
Jfk and Vietnam
The book titled Jfk and Vietnam by the author John M. Newman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler
Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munich - namely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger war - American presidents...
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding
An "essential" (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition ) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee
'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition...
The Pope's Battalions
Although he rarely gave interviews and never held elected office, Santamaria became widely known through his regular commentaries in the Australian and in his magazine News Weekly . Building on...
Captain de Havilland's Moth: Tales of High Adventure from the Golden
A nostalgic celebration of the golden age of aviation - and the iconic DH60 Moth in its centenary year 'Vivid and entertaining' TLS 'A wonderfully affecting, highly entertaining, at times...
Martin Scorsese: A Journey
Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a...
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
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On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania --pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...
Golden State: The Making of California
From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Iraq
News about the ongoing situation in Iraq dominates the news. From the almost daily terrorist incidents to difficulties encountered by the U.S. forces there to manage the changeover of power...
New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and
There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the history, culture, and personalities of the decade through hundreds...
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover...
Voices Against War
On 15 February 2003, an estimated two million Britons took to the streets of London to protest against the war in Iraq. Since the outbreak of that tragic conflict, the...
The Divorce of Nations: A Diplomat's Inside View as the Global Order
An inside perspective to global diplomacy from one of the world's foremost diplomats. Today, we find ourselves in arguably the most dangerous geopolitical situations of modern time. Outlining key moments...
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914
Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres and...
The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade
'We all disappeared', wrote the Sixties flower child Andrea Adam of her friends who once marched for peace and love. 'Suddenly...everybody had gone their own way. Suddenly everyone was knee-deep...
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last...
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991
THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book...
The Secret History of MI6
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The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Abandoned?
The book titled Abandoned? by the author Don Wall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Born in 1942?: What Else Happened?
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and...
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR** Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule...
Great Soul
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments -his success in seizing India's imagination...
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald
A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it almost makes one a Jacobite' Andrew Roberts, Spectator 'Enthralling...
Death Sat on a Pale Horse: the WW1 Experiences of Two Gunners of 3rd
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The World War One Diaries, Letters and Sketches of Harold Stephens and W 'Billy' O'Neil. Over 90 years ago two friends from the farming community of Cowra, New South Wales...
Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History
Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable - war and humiliation....
Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions
Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...
Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia
This volume of the "Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia" covers social, economic and political changes that have taken place since 1800. With over 2400 alphabetically arranged entries, and maps and diagrams integrated...
Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
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The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In "Jet Age," journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of...
The Death of Hitler: The Final Word
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
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This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...