History

Outpost of Occupation

by Barry Turner

The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler's plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey,...

Modelling Scale Figures

by Mark Bannerman

Adding a figure to a kit or a vignette can really bring it to life - yet building and painting figures continues to be a source of frustration to many modelers, with the results all too disappointing. However,...

The Whisky Barons

by Allen Andrews

The success of today's whisky industry was based largely on the commercial drive and foresight of a select group of whisky merchants who took the business world by storm in the late-18th and early-19th centuries....

Jacobite Stories

by Dane Love

For too long, this period of Scottish history has been romanticised with the exploits of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the fore. Dane Love's personal interest in his ancestors has made him research the lives of ordinary...

Uprooted

by Gregor Thum

With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand...

1066 The Conquest

by Peter Fieldman

ENGLAND'S DEFINING MOMENT IN HISTORY ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO ON ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DATES IN ENGLISH HISTORY A NORMAN DUKE LED THE LAST INVASION OF ENGLAND TO BECOME KING OF ENGLAND APPOINTED DUKE OF NORMANDYAT...

The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

by Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history,...

The Supreme Court (Enhanced EB): A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in their Own Words

by Brian Lamb & Susan Swain

The Supreme Court grew out of an historic opportunity to interview all of the living Supreme Court justices for a C-SPAN feature documentary about the Court, the only time that the nine sitting members and their...

The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism

by Thomas W. Evans

Based on a newly discovered collection of private papers as well as interviews and corporate documents, Thomas W. Evans links the eight years (1954-1962) in which Reagan worked for General Electric-acting as...

Pack of Thieves: How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in His

by Richard Z. Chesnoff

It was the largest organized robbery in history: the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, in cooperation with most of the nations in Europe?Axis, Allied, and neutral. Award--winning journalist Richard...

Lincoln and His Generals

by T. Harry Williams

Evaluates Lincoln's ability as a director of war and his influence on the development of a modern command system.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

by John Womack

Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

John Womack, Jr.

". . . It is certainly the definitive study of Emiliano Zapata, and it places him in his proper context."

—Frank Jellinek, The New York Times Book Review

"A feat...

Inside the LRRPs: Rangers in Vietnam

by Michael Lee Col Lanning

Vietnam was a different kind of war, calling for a different kind of soldier. The LRRPs--Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols--were that new breed of fighting man. They operated in six-man teams deep within enemy...

There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

by Jason Sokol

During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justice were fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in the classrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were waged, however, in the hearts...

Force Recon Command: 3rd Force Recon Company in Vietnam, 1969-70

by Alex Lee

THE A SHAU VALLEYWHERE THE NVA WAS KING . . .

In order to prevent surprise attacks on U.S. forces as they were pulling out of Vietnam, someone had to be able to pinpoint the NVA's movements. That dangerous job...

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to...

Bad Land: An American Romance

National Book Critics Circle for General Non-fiction 1996

by Jonathan Raban

Seduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning...

The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present

by Mary Frances Berry

From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil...

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations...

Wide As the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution

by Benson Bobrick

Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was -- and is -- the most influential book ever published. The most famous of all English Bibles, the King James Version, was the culmination of centuries of work...