Military History

The book titled Explaining Hitler by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book explores the long-term reasons for the demise of Imperial Russia, examining the failure of the autocratic state to strengthen its own political position while economic change transformed Russian...

Best known for diaries that chronicle in brilliant detail his life and times during the turbulence of Restoration England, Samuel Pepys was an extraordinary man in an extraordinary time--member of...

Drawing on documentation only recently made available in the West, this extensively revised and updated edition reflects current views, in Russia and abroad, on the country's past as it approaches...

This book makes sense of the events of December 1989, when Romanians turned on Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and overthrew their savage, megalomaniac rule in a wave of violence and...

The book titled Dmytryshyn Imperial Russia 3e by the author Basil Dmytryshyn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb...

A fresh, stimulating look at Adolf Hitler and his dictatorship throughout the study of ten key aspects. Hitler's tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Ralf Georg...

This book tells the fascinating story of the development of weaponry, from the earliest conflicts to modern-day warfare. Over 100 maps illustrate how weapons were used in key battles around...

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly woven together by celebrated chronicler of European history Caroline Moorehead Corruption,...

From clan castles and conflict to Hadrian's Wall and Brexit Scotland is one of the oldest nations in Europe. Its territory has remained fundamentally unchanged since the fifteenth century, and...

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by...

" In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."--- The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the...

This book tells the stories of forty heroes, all awarded bravery medals for their conduct during Special Forces missions over the last 150 years. Often covert hit-and-run operations involving very...

Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful...

Discover the machines of war that changed the battlefield forever Explore more than 5,000 years of mechanized conflict around the globe - from chariots and siege-engines to the supersonic fighters...

A revelatory history traversing the ancient roots of Islam in Europe This revelatory history explores the ancient roots of Muslim Europe, tracing their journey through the Mediterranean. Our odyssey begins...

Imaginative, brilliant and daring- Hilton Als's now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als explores-with breath...

This is a journey both into a time and a place - the South of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The author describes a childhood outside the main currents...

The book titled Scenes From The End by the author Frank E Manuel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Lord Inverchapel was a key figure in British foreign policy and diplomacy during Great Britain's twilight as a great power. His early diplomatic service postings included Berlin, Washington, and the...

The book titled Forgotten Soldiers by the author Brian Moynahan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as the 'eighth wonder of the world', its vast and...

In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. Two...

We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic'...

Gifted writer and reporter Robert Poole opens Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery with preparations for Memorial Day when thousands of families come to visit those buried in the 624-acre cemetery,...

In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME AN ICON. THE ICON WHO DISAPPEARED. Raised in Park Avenue...

Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a...

The book titled Larissa Reisner: A Biography by the author Cathy Porter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

France's Prime Minister and signatory to the Munich Agreement in 1938, Edouard Daladier, was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy Regime for the duration of World War II. As a...

The man who changed the course of modern France In 1981, Francois Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led...

Defeat in 1940 left the French so chastened and demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed not just to pragmatic collaberation but to finding scapegoats for the nation's...

The book titled An Idea of Europe by the author Richard Hoggart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

How an enigmatic masterpiece of the French Revolution became a talisman of the revolutionary spirit in our own time. Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat depicts the painter's friend and...

The hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at,...

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much...

Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared...

A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs. This powerful study chronicles the evolution...

This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of...

Caught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. "The common sight of...

The book titled Stalin: Man and Ruler by the author Robert H. McNeal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When 26 Army nurses and medics - part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron - boarded a cargo plane for transport in November 1943, they never anticipated the...

This new biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar, and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), is the first account to make full use of his huge unpublished archive, deposited at the British Library...

Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he...

This delightful book recreates the busy, colorful world of a Catholic bishop and his flock from 1590-1620. Based upon the recently discovered daybook of Mathias Hovius, the book focuses not...

Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...