Richard II, Hardcover

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger beca...

Historian Richard M. Jones recounts fifty stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous, and in some cases t...

Reducere. Louisville & Nashville Steam LocomotivesRevised 1968 EditionRichard E. PrinceA revised new edition of an encyclopedic study.For over one hundred ye...

This book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays, in...

Reducere. Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BCE), unifier of Greece, author of Greece's first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with...

Reducere. DescriptionModern to Classic II: Residential Estates by Landry Design Group explores the Los Angeles firm's recent work, defined by an eclectic ran...

DescriptionThe story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple H...

When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1, 000 m...

Reducere. Learn more about Richard Nixon--one of America's most unpopular presidents and the only one to resign from the position. On August 8, 1974, million...

Reducere. The first ever documentation of the formidable holdings of the largest archive on the HolocaustThe Arolsen Holocaust Archive chronicles the history...

Reducere. In the first half of the twentieth century, both czarist Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union, were confronted with the problem of conducting...

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandab...

Reducere. New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polariz...

Reducere. DescriptionPost-World War II Ashtabula was a major Great Lakes port with a thriving downtown. Local photographer Richard E. Stoner began taking pho...

Reducere. Few realize what a vital role World War II and Florida played in each other's history. The war helped Florida move past its southern conservative m...

Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs are richly illustrated with conte...

Where there is wealth and power, there's always someone willing to do anything to take it.England, 1381: Delia's idyllic life as daughter of an ear...

The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A ...

Reducere. Both history and memoir, The Flight tells the story of Richard W. "Dick" Bridges's heroic service in World War II. Bridges survived a German attack...

DescriptionMany people know that Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman and prime minister, a speechmaker who led his country th...

Reducere. Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, and Southern Californ...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert McParlandOn the heels of the Great Depression and staring into the abyss of a global war, American writers took fict...

The first Vreeland book to focus on her three decades at Harper's Bazaar, where the legendary editor honed her singular take on fashion. In 1936, ...

Reducere. If Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were right when they wrote, in the musical "South Pacific, " that you've "got to be taught...to hate al...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ronald BeinerFollowing the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to sugg...

Reducere. DescriptionINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one milli...

Reducere. An American icon and hero faces a nation-and a world-in transitionA bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower...

In 1957, America turned its back on its earlier self and jumped headlong into the nation it has become today. From Sputnik and the beginning of the...

In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-centur...

DescriptionA magnificent illustrated history of HMS Tyger, a fourth-rate ship of the Navy of Charles II.Inspired by the recent discovery of mathema...