The memoirs of a brilliant and beloved Founding Father Printer, author, scientist, inventor, statesman, revolutionary arguably no American life has been more remarkable than Benjamin Franklin's.
The celebrated remembrances of the man who led the Union to victory during the Civil WarCompleted just days before his death, Grant’s Personal Memoirs is a clear and compelling account of his military career, focusing on two great conflicts: the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.
These forty-eight biographies by the ancient Greek scholar demonstrate the parallel lives of famous rulers such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
This collection of WWI sketches of the Fifth Marine Regiment is "e;forthright, unsparing, deeply felt but unsentimental, and reads like a house afire"e; (The Wall Street Journal).
After sweeping through France and Belgium in the summer of 1944, the Allies were poised to enter the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the Allied axis of advance.
'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan SnowIn Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945.
War & Peace is a masterpiece - an epic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars, which has inspired love and devotion among its readers for over a century.
The Gathering Storm is the first volume in Winston Churchills The Second World War, a history of World War II from the end of the First World War to the conclusion of the second in 1945.
The Dark Ages is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.
From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures.
In Peril on the Sea is the story of missionary widow Ethel Bell and her childrenMary, 14, and Robert, 11uprooted by the war from their West African station, find themselves on a small freighter bound for America.
This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton, an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler and later Republican, whose extraordinary military career as a British officer, IRA leader and General in the Free State army brought him from Flanders to Beal na Blath.
