#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times).
"e;Relentless in its narrative fortitude, the memoir Night Train to Odesa is filled with detailed reportage from the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine.
The evacuation and subsequent German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, told through personal accounts, newspapers, and political decisions.
A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I'Recommended not only to psychiatrists but also to those with an interest in the complex relationships created by war and the management of trauma' British Journal of PsychiatrySecond Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock.
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement.
Serpents of War, the memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander.
Serpents of War, the memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander.
When Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday in favor of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own.
From the first shot fired by his grandfather on a jungle trail in 1903 to the day his father captured plans for the Chinese invasion of South Korea, William Crawford Woodss family has fought in nearly every American war of the twentieth century.
From the first shot fired by his grandfather on a jungle trail in 1903 to the day his father captured plans for the Chinese invasion of South Korea, William Crawford Woodss family has fought in nearly every American war of the twentieth century.
When Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday in favor of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own.
Perhaps many have not heard of the Turkish writer and poet, "The Guardian of Religion,", as he was fluctuating in his poetic and literary production, and despite that, he was distinguished and tended towards renewal.
André Hassan Khan hat als Berufssoldat etwa 1500 Einsatztage in 27 Auslandseinsätzen absolviert, in Afghanistan, aber auch in Mali, Usbekistan oder Sarajevo.
She was described as the most dangerous woman in Europe by Adolf Hitler; Noel Coward said people who spent any time with her were always reduced to 'gibbering worshippers'; she adored Margaret Thatcher and disliked Germans; she found the French comical and hankered for the old days of Empire and Commonwealth.
In its sections, this book reviews the course of a group of prominent characters in politics and science in the nineteenth century, and the author is characterized by the expansion of the concept of "the East", as it highlights characters from the Persians, India, China and Japan, and also adds some Western figures who spent most of their lives in the region Eastern, such as Suleiman Pasha, French, Dr.
From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions.
Leveke von Münchhausen erlebt während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges als Lehrschülerin im evangelischen Stift Fischbeck die Besetzung des Stifts durch kaiserliche Truppen.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Now with a fun pub quiz*'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The TimesThe nation's favourite historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask .
