The War in the West - A New History

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. From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly U...

Reducere. An essential reference guide to one of New Orleans's most iconic Uptown neighborhoods, New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX documents the remarkable...

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. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Byzantine Empire then keep reading...The Byzantine Empire was founded durin...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWI...

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. Behind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Britis...

DescriptionAmong the millions of personnel who served in the north-west European campaign of 1944-5 were hundreds of military chaplains. Almost uni...

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...

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

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. 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...

In early September 1943, Italy capitulated to the Allies. Australian prisoners of war, POWs, seized this watershed moment and snatched supplies bef...

Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

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

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...

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

Reducere. Married for a little more than a year, Genevieve LaCroix Dane Two Stars and her beloved Daniel Two Stars dream of making a happy home in a safe pla...

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...

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

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

A best seller in France, with over 400, 000 copies sold, and currently being translated into eighteen languages, Fault Lines is the new novel from ...

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...

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...

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 ...

DescriptionThe Battle of Westport, Missouri (today, part of Kansas City) was the largest Civil War battle west of the Mississippi. Troops from as f...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainmentCanada, and Europe. Crow...

Reducere. Oak Ridge is nestled in the foothills of East Tennessee, 25 miles west of Knoxville. Bordered on three sides by the Clinch River, the land first ex...

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. 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 this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on...

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

DescriptionThe hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. Whi...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

DescriptionJohn Andr was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimatel...

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. DescriptionA history of Oregon without Jesse Applegate would be like Exodus without Moses. Like Moses, Jesse led pioneers through the wilderness ac...

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. DescriptionMollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. ...

Reducere. A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powersThe year is 1900, and Western empires a...

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

Reducere. The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in ove...

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. Contributor(s): Author: David M. GlantzWith the defeat and destruction of German Sixth Army at Stalingrad all but certain at the end of 1942, the w...

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. 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...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

Reducere. Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eightee...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth M. RixfordThis genealogy is a study in the old world as well as the new. Extensive references have been given, co...

Reducere. "A high-energy tale that unfolds at a machine-gun pace...Betley has become essential reading." --Booklist A global conspiracy threatens America's p...

Reducere. Along with a good rifle and a sturdy horse, this guide was an essential companion for any westward-bound pioneer of the nineteenth century. Its aut...

"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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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