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The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

Gentle Resistance is a story of nonviolence in the face of tragedy.

An examination of how the Waffen-SS fared in Normandy in June 1944 and whether they deserve their reputation of being the ultimate fighting soldiers.

The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian.

Balkoski is in top form in this groundbreaking analysis of the other half of America's D-Day.

A TRUE story about a miraculous journey filled with antics of young men in the USAAF as well as many deadly encounters and near misses.

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich.

Under the united leadership of Athens and Sparta, Greece is able to repel the Persian invaders on land and at sea.

One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present.

In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start in life.

Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going.

This WWII history examines Nazi air force operations in Egypt and Libya with more than 100 rare wartime photographs.

Explores the story of one star of the Silver Screen's role in the Second World WarJames Stewart was already a Hollywood star when the United States went to war in December 1941.

Two people were not supposed to be together, so they snuck around to meet each other because they were so in love.

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development.

Winner of the LASA Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize in the Humanities, 2013Starting in the late nineteenth century, the region of South America known as the Rio de la Plata (containing modern-day Uruguay and Argentina) boasted the highest literacy rates in Latin America.

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history.

This is the story of a crucial year in the history of England, brimming with great political and social upheaval: the year 1603.

Surviving the Peace is a monumental feat of ground-level reporting describing two decades of postwar life in Bosnia, specifically among those fighting for refugee rights of return.

Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (193975).

This text is about religion, a very sensitive subject.

An illustrated history of World War II’s largest tank battle that went down near the Russian city.

Teresa de Santo Domingo, born with the name Chicaba, was a slave captured in the territory known to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese navigators and slave traffickers as La Mina Baja del Oro, the part of West Africa that extends through present-day eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria.

In this first in-depth study of female homosexuality in the Spanish Empire for the period from 1500 to 1800, Velasco presents a multitude of riveting examples that reveal widespread contemporary interest in women's intimate relations with other women.

Introducing a new series where history comes alive in riveting documents and images of great events as they occurred.