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Britain's Cold War

by Bob Clarke

'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About to begin was Britain's most expensive and turbulent periods...

Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

by Odd Westad

Restless Empire

America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By

by Akhil Reed Amar

In America’s Unwritten Constitution, esteemed legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar presents an exploration of the various factors that we consider in the course of interpreting the Constitution, but which are not...

Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach

by Dandridge M. Malone

Required reading for all present and future leaders, this classic is for those who have to "get the job done"--military or not.

Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit

by Robert E. Wright

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions...

Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone

by Joseph S. Meisel

-- American Historical Review

The Secret World of Vickers Guided Weapons

by John Forbat

Based on the author's own involvement as an engineer at the company through the 1950s and early 1960s and on more recent research of the archives at Brooklands Museum and the PRO, this book explains the successes...

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of Bancroft Award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth...

Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison

by Jeff Coen & John Chase

No one did political corruption quite like Rod Blagojevich. The 40th governor of Illinois made international headlines in 2008 when he was roused from his bed and arrested by the FBI at his Chicago home. He...

Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution

by Stan Mack

Presenting the American Revolution in a fun, easy-to-understand fashion, Stan Mack’s illustrated rendition makes history entertaining while providing lucid insight into the revolution’s real-life participants,...

Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups: New Revised Edition

by Colonel John Hughes-Wilson

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government...

American Veterans on War: Personal Stories from WW II to Afghanistan

by Elise Forbes Tripp

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—wars that seem as far from Americans’ understanding as they are distant from our shores.

With American Veterans on War, Elise Forbes Tripp...

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

by Alan Taylor

In this deeply researched and clearly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. During the early nineteenth century, Britons...

Slave Nation

by Alfred Blumrosen

"A radical, well-informed, and highly original reinterpretation of the place of slavery in the American War of Independence."-David Brion Davis, Yale University In 1772, the High Court in London brought about...

First American Army

by Bruce Ph.D.

This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's...

American Revolution 100

by Michael Lanning

The American Revolution 100 brings you to the charred battlefields and inside the maneuverings of the greatest leaders of the war that gave birth to America.

Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862

by John Taylor

The first complete account of the largest battle in New Mexico, and a turning point in the Civil War in the West.

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by H.W. Brands

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents.

Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts...

The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

by David Halberstam

"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."

--The New York Times

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining...

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 2009

by Douglas A. Blackmon

In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War...