History

D-Day Hero: CMS Stanley Hollis VC

von Mike Morgan

D-Day's only Victoria Cross winner, Stanley Hollis was uniquely recommended for this coveted award twice on 6 June. A tough, working-class rebel, Hollis was no model soldier: he was forever being 'busted' to...

Bolivar: American Liberator

von Marie Arana

It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback...

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

von Doris Kearns Goodwin

Winner of the Lincoln Prize

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to...

Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862

von Joseph L Harsh

Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland Campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy...

Hitler in History

von Eberhard Jaeckel

A leading interpreter of the Nazi period addresses crucial issues in modern European and contemporary history.

The African American People

von Molefi Kete Asante

The African American People is the first history of the African American people to take a global look at the role African Americans have played in the world. Author Molefi Kete Asante synthesizes the familiar...

A Little History of the World

von E.H. Gombrich & Clifford Harper

The international bestseller available in English for the first time: E. H. Gombrichs world history for the curious of all ages. style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"

Shadow Warriors: Inside The Special Forces

von Tom Clancy & Carl Stiner

An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces.

Green Berets • Navy SEALS • Rangers •

Air Force Special Operations • PsyOps • Civil Affairs •

and other special-mission...

The Art of Seduction

von Robert Greene

This bold, instructive guide to power of attraction by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and Mastery can make anyone a master of this devastating and timeless art

This...

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

von Antony Beevor

The #1 internationally bestselling history of D-Day is now enhanced with rare video footage from the NBC News Archives for the ultimate narrative of the battle for Normandy.

"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is...

A History of the American People

von Paul Johnson & Paul M. Johnson

"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the...

Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

von Caroline Finkel

The complete history of the Ottoman empire, written for the general reader

Hitler

von A.N. Wilson

From eminent biographer A.N. Wilson, an incisive, penetrating portrait of Adolf Hitler.

Panzer Lehr Division 1944-45

von Fred Steinhardt

The Panzer Lehr Division was one of the most élite German armoured formations in existence in early 1944. Its baptism of fire was in the deadly Normandy bocage. Although suffering heavy losses in Normandy,...

Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point In Canada's Afghan Mission

von Lee Windsor & David Charters

"Our Mission was the people of Kandahar and keeping the Taliban from interfering with rebuilding. When we did use force, we had to be discriminate Killing innocent civilians would be mission failure. I had the...

The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine

von Edwin Black

The Transfer Agreement is Edwin Black's compelling, award-winning story of a negotiated arrangement in 1933 between Zionist organizations and the Nazis to transfer some 50,000 Jews, and $100 million of their...

To Be a U. S. Navy Seal

von Cliff Hollenbeck

This is an introduction into what it really means to be a U.S. Navy SEAL in today's U.S. Navy-in the sea, in the air, and on the land. The U.S. Navy's elite specialists are among the most highly trained forces...

Operation Phantom Fury

von Dick Camp

The Second Battle for Fallujah, dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, took place over an almost two-month period, from November 7 to December 23, 2004. The Marine Corps’ biggest battle in Iraq to date, it was so...

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

von Andrew Rimas & Evan D.G. Fraser

We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor.

Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century...

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America

von William C. Davis

William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented...