History

American Crisis

by William M., Jr. Fowler

Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact the war continued for two more traumatic years. During that time, the Revolution came closer to being...

The Friar of Carcassonne

by Stephen O'Shea

In 1300, the French region of Languedoc had been cowed under the authority of both Rome and France since Pope Innocent III 's Albigensian Crusade nearly a century earlier. That crusade almost wiped out the Cathars,...

Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline

by Morris Berman

Why America Failed shows how, from its birth as a nation of "hustlers" to its collapse as an empire, the tools of the country's expansion proved to be the instruments of its demise

Why America Failed is the third...

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth.

North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic...

The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq

by Martin Van Creveld

One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War...

Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

by David Webster

David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge,...

Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It

by Alan Wolfe

A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.

In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing,...

John Huston: Courage and Art

by Jeffrey Meyers

From the acclaimed biographer of Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, and

Errol Flynn comes the first complete biography of the legendary John Huston, the extraordinary director, writer, actor, and bon vivant...

The Magnificent Medills: America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor

by Megan Mckinney

The riveting story of the country’s first media dynasty, the Medills of Chicago, whose power and influence shaped the story of America and American journalism for four generations

When thirty-two-year-old...

American Police: A History, 1845-1945

by Thomas Reppetto

The only book to trace the origins and development of the American police.

Because We Are Canadians: A Battlefield Memoir: A Battlefield Memoir

by Charles Kipp

This is the story of one man’s war—the memoirs of Sgt. Charles D. Kipp, who served with the Canadian army on active duty in Europe during the bloody days and weeks following D-Day. What makes this work stand...

After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years that Followed

by Mary Clark & Peter Bearman

Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, After the Fall is a landmark oral history drawn from the celebrated collection of 9/11 interviews at Columbia University....

Tokyo from Edo to Showa 1867-1989: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City

by Edward Seidensticker & Donald Richie

Edward Seidensticker's Tokyo: From Edo to Showa, available here for the first time in a single volume, tells the story of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an isolated Japan to one of the most...

Samurai Tales: Courage, Fidelity and Revenge in the Final Years of the Shogun

by Romulus Hillsborough & Kiyoharu Omino

Samurai Tales is about the legendary men reborn from the samurai class who fought for the helm of power in 19th century Japan. In an internecine war that was unique in its scope and character, Hillsborough gives...

Modern Egypt: The Formation Of A Nation-state

by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr

This book is centered on Egypt's relatively early development as a nation and as a state and is written in language readily understandable to students or adult readers without prior background in Egyptian history,...

The Middle East and the United States: History, Politics, and Ideologies

by David W. Lesch & Mark L. Haas

Leading scholars and policy advisors provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of historical, contemporary, and theoretical issues of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, from WWI to the present.

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Passing the Test

by William Bowers

For U.S. and UN soldiers fighting the Korean War, the spring of 1951 was brutal. The troops faced a tough and determined foe under challenging conditions. The Chinese Spring Offensive of 1951 exemplified the...

If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy--from the Revolution to the War of 1812

by George C. Daughan

From Boston Harbor to Yorktown; from wars with France and Tripoli to the dramatic Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812, the definitive history of the creation of the American Navy

Treasure Ship:

by Dennis M. Powers

Praise for Dennis M. Powers and Treasure Ship

"In recounting the disastrous sinking and miraculous recovery of the S.S. Brother Jonathan, Dennis M. Powers shows his prodigious research abilities. Every time...

Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China

by Paul A. Cohen & John R. Gillis

The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans-even students and specialists...