General and world history

While the Arthurian folk tales are mostly stories of friendships, this one is focused on the strength and spirit of King Arthur especially when he pulled the sword from the stone.

Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq explores the dynamic trajectory of beliefs, actions, and their consequences in what will forever be debated as among the most controversial and costly operations in U.

You probably think that learning about the Great Depression is depressing.

For many in the West, North Korea is a secretive, reclusive, and enigmatic country, a rogue state that threatens the world with its nuclear program and ballistic missiles.

Secular humanists and other progressives have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers.

The military adventure that George W.

The American Civil War was caused by so many inequalities.

Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and filmmakers who, in their adaptations and appropriations, seek new ways of expressing innovative and challenging thoughts in the hope that they can change perceptions of their own world.

In the following pages, we will get to know about the 50 Famous People in Modern History.

Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential.

Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U.

All hail to the man who discovered America and placed it in the map.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

The early Islamic conquests began when in the 7th century and the rise of Prophet Muhammad.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

How did the United States of America become a powerful nation?

As of early 2010, more than two million U.

Why is it important to go back to the past?

In the post-1945 era, the aircraft carrier has remained a valued weapon despite the development of nuclear weapons, cruise and ballistic missiles, and highly capable submarines.

Think of the ancient Greek society like a ladder.

On October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maines Penobscot Bay.

The conflict in Iraq is characterized by three faces of war: interstate conflict, civil war, and insurgency.

Christopher Columbus was a brave and curious man.

This major history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War.

In 1945 the Presbyterian Church was one of Canada's largest and most culturally influential churches.

Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.

Best All-Time Booze Book, Eater.

Some of today's most prominent experts on the American presidency offer their perspectives, commentary, and analyses in this volume of studies, commissioned by the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Culture, both at the University of Arkansas.

The year 1982 was a desperate time for the U.

Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

In early August 1974, despite incredible risks and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean.

Tom Reilly idolized his older brother, Ron.

A career in the U.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

In 1914, journalist and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart traveled to Europe alone to cover World War I for the Saturday EveningPost.

This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War.

Why has there been such an increase in the number of Presbyterian congregations celebrating the Lord's Supper every week?

The British Army's Special Air Service is one of the world's premier special operations units.

First-person accounts chronicling the 3/7 Marines engaging in intense street-by-street fighting to put down an uprising in Iraq in April 2004.

Pocket manuals bring together a wealth of information from a wide variety of training manuals and tactical documents.

Fallujah Redux is the first book about the Fallujah Awakening written by Operation Iraqi Freedom military veterans who served there, providing a comprehensive account of the turning of Fallujah away from the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2007.

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When "e;Don't Ask, Don't Tell,"e; the official U.

The death of CIA operative Theodore G.