Defeat in Detail

This study evaluates in detail the German planning and decision-making process, from November 1917 to the start of August 1918, prior to their even...

New insight on the fall of the Ottoman Empire that considers the first Balkan War and its legacy in detail.

Reducere. The Croatian War of Independence: Serbia's War of Conquest Against Croatia and the Defeat of Serbian Imperialism 1991-1995 tells the compelling sto...

Reducere. Based on a true story, a white, NYPD Sergeant with his diverse narcotics team, "The Harlem Raiders, " and a black female community leader, form an ...

Reducere. In 1950, France experienced two parallel but different outcomes in its Indochina war. While the conflict in the north ended with a disastrous defea...

Description'In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperor's personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mot...

Reducere. Gary Soto writes that when he was five -what I knew best was at ground level.- In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to ...

Reducere. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on th...

The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the C...

In the late 4th century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 3...

Reducere. It is often said that "the devil's most effective trick is to make us believe he does not exist." With this book, you will be prepared for this tri...

Reducere. Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring singl...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest,...

Reducere. One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal k...

Reducere. Over the course of his military career, George Crook developed empathy and admiration for American Indians both as foes and as allies. As Paul Magi...

DescriptionIn 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico...

DescriptionWeaving together history and myth, Robert the Bruce: The King and the Spiderbrings to life the most-famous legend of the freedom-fightin...

Reducere. This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordi...

Reducere. "The best book by far on the Pacific War" (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on...

Reducere. The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight da...

In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobili...

Reducere. Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadersh...

In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses...

Contributor(s): Author: Lucien MussetAuthor: Richard RexThe Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most extraordinary artefacts to survive from the eleventh...

Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in ...

Reducere. The Revolution Betrayed is one of the most important Marxist texts of all time. It is the only serious Marxist analysis of what happened to the Rus...

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever foug...

DescriptionThe story of the Battle of Waterloo - of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Bl cher and their al...

Reducere. Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only...

Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate ...

Reducere. Loretta LaRoche has been called "the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction"--and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this entertaining book, her enorm...

Reducere. DescriptionWarren's spectacularly detailed account of the American War of Independence remains an authoritative, much-read source on the subject: t...

Reducere. THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO WINNING AN ARGUMENT WITH A LIBERAL. Antifa leftists may still burn this book, but more than a few center-left individuals w...

Reducere. The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall III's acclaimed Lakota Westerns series, The Long Knives Are Crying begins ten years later, in 1875, as Sitti...

Reducere. The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective. Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed i...

DescriptionWomen's football is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, with over 30 million girls and women playing the game. Three million...

DescriptionThe Battle of the Peaks is the first book to be devoted to a series of forgotten battles in the spring of 1943 in the hills of northern ...