History

Where Hash Rules

by George Aaron Cuddy

Where Hash Rules is the success story of a family that was willing to roll up its sleeves from the depths of immigrant poverty to produce generations of satisfied, loyal customers and offspring who have reached...

Paradise Regained

by Edward W Shafik

Based on real events, Paradise Regained tells the story of Egyptian Coptic Christians massacred for their faith in a terrorist act secretly sponsored by the Muslim-dominated government. The story explores Egypt's...

Gulf Women (English edition)

by Amira Sonbol & Kira Dreher

This ground-breaking collection of fifteen essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world as well as the history of Muslim women.

The result of a project aimed at finding...

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

by Matthew Algeo

From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile. Diners, bellhops,...

Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

by Mike Dash

They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone...

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Valerian Albanov

In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more...

Ending Empire in the Middle East

by Simon C. Smith

This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of...

A History of Energy

by Bent Sørensen

In this seminal book, Bent Sørensen views human society as driven by the quest for, and control of, energy. From allowing our prehistoric ancestors to survive harsh northern European winters to more recent...

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism

by Richard Jackson & Samuel Justin Sinclair

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative new textbook, addressing a number of key issues in contemporary terrorism studies from both 'traditional' and 'critical' perspectives.

In recent years the terrorism...

My Father's Country: The Story of a German Family

by Wibke Bruhns & Shaun Whiteside

In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century....

Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

by David K. Shipler

An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.

With telling anecdote and...

Recollections of the Great War in the Air

by James R. McConnell & Bob Carruthers

In 1915 James Roger McConnell enlisted as a US volunteer in the French Flying Corps. He was part of a remarkable band of American volunteers which were formed into the famous American 'Lafayette' Escadrille....

Titanic: The Death and Life of a Legend

by Michael Davie

In this gripping, deeply researched exploration of the Titanic's tragic sinking, journalist Michael Davie investigates the events, controversies, and legends that have surrounded the disaster. Sifting through...

The Official U-boat Commander's Handbook - The Illustrated Edition

by Bob Carruthers

This is the complete wartime translation by the U.S. Navy of the 1943 edition of the official handbook given to all U-boat commanders. The original handbook was compiled from combat reports and was regularly...

The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future

by Victor Cha

The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council

Though it is much discussed and often maligned, precious...

Secret Heroes

by Paul Martin

Not all American heroes appear in the standard history texts. Their achievements aren't celebrated like the monumental exploits of presidents, generals, and founding fathers. But for as long as this great nation...

Come, Tell Me How You Live

by Agatha Christie Mallowan

To the world she was Agatha Christie, author of numerous bestselling mysteries and whodunits, arguably the most popular writer in the English language. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, traveling with...

Kitchener's War

by George H Cassar

A new study of one of Britain's most famous soldiers

Latin America's Wars Volume II

by Robert L Scheina

Covers every type of military activity, including internal and external conflicts, terrorism, coups, and conflicts born of ideological, economic, racial, and religious strife

Museographs: The Old City of Jerusalem a Cultural Crossroad

by Caron Lazar

Just uttering the word Jerusalem results in an automatic change in the state of mind for Jews, Christians and Muslims. Their individual and collective history in this city—a holy place for all three of the...