Empires at War

A concise and authoritative account of North Korea's post war historyIllustrations: 20 illustrations

Highlights a neglected war between the two superpowers of the era.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Gareth C SampsonIllustration(s): 20 il...

This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman...

DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

DescriptionHow the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation o...

Reducere. How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the firs...

A first look at how the world's rising powers began international oil empires amidst one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil war.

Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the en...

Reducere. In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Marga...

Description World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carl Von ClausewitzUnabridged value reproduction of the most critical and thought provoking first four books of "On War" by...

Reducere. Unabridged value reproduction of the most critical and thought provoking first four books of "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz, translated by J.J. Gr...

Reducere. From ancient history to modern times, journey through the past with this picture-packed encyclopedia of curiosities. Explore galleries of intriguin...

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" ("Financial Times") comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the mod...

Reducere. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians, " (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern ag...

Reducere. Desperados takes you to the front line of the drug wars. You'll come face to face to with: Swaggering, flamboyant drug lords who rule over immense ...

Reducere. In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many ob...

Reducere. Four sons. One throne. A world on the precipice.1315 BC: Tensions soar between the great powers of the Late Bronze Age. The Hittites stand toe-to-t...

The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th century. With a population estimated at 20, 000 or mo...

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

Reducere. Elizabeth Bear concludes her award-winning epic fantasy trilogy, The Eternal Sky, with Steles of the Sky.Re Temur, exiled heir to his grandfather's...

Reducere. Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Te...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saraiya FaroqhiAuthor: Suraiya FaroqhiIn a concise and colorful style, Suraiya Faroqhi lays out the history of one of the m...

DescriptionIn Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese Am...

Reducere. "A terrifyingly realistic, prescient new series ... which can only be described as prophetic." - G. Michael Hopf, best selling author of The New Wo...

Reducere. In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, pa...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. From one of the world's greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda as a student I...

Reducere. Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within ...

Reducere. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Pr...

Reducere. Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state...

Reducere. Now a new musical starring two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone (Evita, Gypsy) as Helena Rubinstein and Christine Ebersole (42nd Street, Grey G...

Reducere. DescriptionThis lovely book is an illustrated interpretation of the Book of Revelation based on Baha'i sources revealing the Apocalypse as the stor...

"The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." --Winston S. Churchill In 1...

This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full cove...

Reducere. A value-priced omnibus of the first two novels of Daniel Abraham's classic Long Price Quartet--groundbreaking, unique fantasy of rare power and ori...

DescriptionEast India Company and Dutch East India Company* * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside * * * The East India Compa...

Reducere. Available in paperback, this four-volume narrative world history tells the story of the entire globe, from the earliest nomadic humans all the way ...

Reducere. Madagascar provided the stunning backdrop for one of the strangest conflicts of the Second World War - when Britain went head to head against one o...

Reducere. "Nothing lasts! The faun sleeps, / Smiling, mute, remorseless." - Ludmila Jevsejeva, Autuna Melodio In St. Petersburg, amidst an uneasy truce with ...

When people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South T...