The War in the West - A New History

The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

'Ranks as a towering work of historical research and writing' - Nigel Jones, BBC History Magazine In the second volume of his acclaimed new history...

Reducere. "Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." --The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contem...

A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

La Violencia exposes the bloody heart of Spain - from its origins in the ancient past to the Civil War and the current crisis in Catalonia.

DescriptionThe first phase of the Civil War was fought west of the Mississippi River at least six years before the attack on Fort Sumter. Starting ...

A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand c...

Reducere. Winner of the Best Book Award by the Wild West History AssociationA ripsnortin' ramble across the bloodstained Arizona desert with Wyatt Earp and c...

Presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important ...

"Rebecca West's magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time." --The New Yorker Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classi...

DescriptionWilliam Vincent Tinsley's Other Ranks is a classic, enduring memoir of World War I. First published in 1931, it was quickly lost in wave...

Reducere. The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...

Reducere. Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea ...

Reducere. Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-BiographyThe events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County...

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and wh...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the Cold War gripped the world with fear of espionage and nuclear winter, everyday Wisconsinites found themselves embroiled in the st...

Reducere. A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself among the struggling powers of 17t...

West Milford has always been known for its natural beauty. Its approximately eighty square miles of mountains and lakes have delighted visitors for...

Reducere. The world is still only half-made. Between the wild shores of uncreation, and the ancient lands of the East lies the vast expanse of the West---you...

Reducere. Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and he...

Reducere. Description2019 Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction THE NEW DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS"A groundbreaking work. ... ...

Reducere. Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who wo...

When shocking news reaches the History Keepers' headquarters, Jake Djones is sent head-first into a new adventure. The time-travelling agents voyag...

Reducere. The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of nine distinguished military historians, examines ...

The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of nine distinguished military historians, examines ...

Reducere. Niccol Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in hist...

Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements offers new and critical insight into the state of the research on post-war German history from a ...

Reducere. The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American ...

DescriptionHis name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp. But be...

Reducere. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts ana...

Reducere. The West Indian bases are desperate: post vessels--a vital communications link between England and the West Indies in the war against France--are m...

Reducere. DescriptionWest Virginia is a state of overwhelming beauty. Shared traditions, shared tragedies, and shared histories bind its people to the land a...

By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sa...

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. No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In "The Last Great...

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...

Reducere. Midland was a young farming and ranching community on the southern edge of the Llano Estacado when the real-photo postcard era began near the openi...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of ...

A history of "the Troubles" the radical politics of Republicanism The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Euro...

In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this ...

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The liveliness of Mo...

Reducere. A guide to the history that informs the world of Star Trek--just in time for the next JJ Abrams Star Trek movieFor a series set in our future, Star...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

Reducere. "Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this sweepi...

Reducere. On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa-el jaguar-and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the ...

Reducere. In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and k...

Reducere. East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley lies Manzanar. Founded in 1910 as a fruit-growing colony, it was named in Spanish for...

Reducere. "One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." --Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably resea...

Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture is the first book-scaled historical survey entirely focused on this notable Chicago North Shore suburb in...

Drive down almost any street in Webster Groves and one is filled with a sense of timelessness. Entire neighborhoods are in the National Register of...

Reducere. From romance and robberies to cowboys and Indians, the Old West is filled with phenomenal happenings, mysteries, and ghosts thatare sire tosend a c...

Reducere. DescriptionThe great Potomac River begins in the Alleghenies and flows 383 miles through some of America's most historic lands before emptying into...

Reducere. A newly revised version of a classic in American historyWhen The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synth...

Reducere. Before his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting betw...

Reducere. "Who in the west has not heard of Wetzel, the daring borderer...the Boone of North-Western Virginia." -Wills de Hass, 1851 Lewis Wetzel came of age...

Reducere. Neill McKee, author of the award-winning travel memoir Finding Myself in Borneo, takes the reader through 400 years and 15, 000 miles of an on-the-...

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists trave...

Reducere. The dark and bloody ground of the frontier during the years of the American Revolution created much that we associate with the idea of America. Bet...

Reducere. By 1858, construction on a new railroad from Mobile, Alabama, to Cairo, Illinois, had intersected the Fulton/Pontotoc Road near an area called Gum ...

Reducere. The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most dif...

" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Pu...

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, seeking to create a strategic outpost for New France, built Fort Toulouse in Creek territory. This area would eventually be...

A fascinating journey through more than 5, 000 years of seafaring history in this essential guide to the most impressive seafaring tales, explorers...

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

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

Reducere. Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new ...

DescriptionFor more than 5, 000 years, the sea has challenged, rewarded, and punished the brave sailors who set forth to explore it. This history o...

Description'A bad reputation has its commitments.' So wrote home Jochen Peiper from the fighting front in the East in 1943, characterizing his batt...

Reducere. This book examines the experiences of the British Army soldiers, or 'redcoats', who fought in North America and the West Indies between 1755 and 17...