The War in the West - A New History

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans...

A new translation of the ancient Chinese military classic that is widely admired by military and business strategists For more than two thousand ye...

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...

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...

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...

Reducere. In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were pushed west by the Europeans ...

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...

Reducere. Autobiography: David Brosbell was born and raised in Toronto Canada. Although he is a proud Canadian, he is passionate about his Scandinavian ances...

Reducere. Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed ...

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-...

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 ...

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.

Reducere. "The lively story of the Civil War's most unlikely--and most uncelebrated--genius" (The Wall Street Journal)--General Montgomery C. Meigs, who buil...

Reducere. On 14 September 1862, four Brits encountered the procession of the nobleman Shimazu Hisamitsu at a village called Namamugi along Japan's ancient Tō...

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

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

Reducere. "They'd never kill a reporter...." On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded ...

Tom Rosser served in nearly every battle of the Army of Northern Virginia. The lanky officer, known as much for his temper as his fighting abilitie...

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...

A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals...

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. 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...

Presbyterians from the Irish province of Ulster were among the first to push the wild frontier west and found the city of Pittsburgh. By the 1840s,...

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...

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

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

Huntington, West Virginia, is a city rich in cultural history. Rising from the ashes of the Civil War, this jewel city of the upper South became an...

Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour--the Arab and Kurdish heroes of this book. Their testimony, rev...

Reducere. A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine...

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 ...

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...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and edited by F...

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...

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...

Reducere. The United States of America was built upon slavery and the displacement and murder of indigenous peoples. Born into slavery, Henry's young life is...

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bra...

Reducere. A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals...

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

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert ...

Reducere. When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the ...

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...

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

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

Reducere. For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an o...

Reducere. Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy...

The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisi...

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

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

Reducere. Don Cusic presents gospel music as part of the history of contemporary Christianity. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isa...

Reducere. The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. Th...

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

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. ''The unparallelled master of the historical saga returns, this time, with an eye on China. Beginning with the First Opium War in 1839 and continui...

DescriptionIn this new study of personal relationships within the British (including Canadian) Command in 21st Army Group during the campaign in No...

DescriptionNow publishing in paperback, this is vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly appr...

Louisiana's Sacred Places blurs the lines between the sacred and the profane. Author Deborah Burst combines her love for art, history and architect...

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. Military interventions on supposedly humanitarian grounds have become an established feature of the post-Cold War global order. Since September 11,...

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. 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...

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

Reducere. In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-wo...

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

Reducere. DescriptionCrosby, Stills & Nash created some of the most indelible songs and beautiful harmonies of the late 1960s and early 1970s: "Suite: Judy B...

Reducere. DescriptionDo not mistake this book as just another rehash of old news. What is presented within these pages is much shocking new information in th...

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. 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...