In The Laughing Cavalier & The First Sir Percy, Emma Orczy gathers two historical romances that extend the imaginative lineage of her famous Scarlet Pimpernel world.
When it comes to sheer savagery endured by the American fighting man, few combat theaters could match the Pacific in WorldWar II: the sodden malarial and Japanese infested jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal, the kamikaze pilots for whom death was no deterrent, and the blood-soaked beaches taken by island-hopping Marines.
It was the Greatest Generation's greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marinesunder the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradleyrescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.
The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custerfrom cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars.
When John Wilkes Booth diedshot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincolnall he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women.
'Absorbing' - The Guardian'Illuminating' - Vogue'Fascinating' - Pandora SykesIn Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies).
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Scottish is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Scotland a country worth celebrating every day of the year.
"e;Perhaps it is a cliche that a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman of the next generation, yet my grandfather found merit in the maxim.
In 'The Secret Doctrines of the Rosicrucians' by William Walker Atkinson, readers are taken on a journey through the hidden teachings of the ancient Rosicrucian order.
Alexandre Dumas' Werk "Joseph Balsamo" ist ein faszinierender historischer Roman, der von Intrigen, Rache und geheimen Machenschaften im Frankreich des 18.
Seit einigen Wochen kommt aus Russland zunehmend Kritik an den baltischen Staaten, nicht zuletzt an der Republik Lettland, die Mitglied der NATO und der EU ist.
Everything you've been taught about the World War II "e;internment camps"e; in America is wrong:They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteriaThey did not target only those of Japanese descentThey were not Nazi-style death campsIn her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling.
Solomon Northup's 12 Years a Slave is a harrowing first-person slave narrative that recounts his kidnapping from freedom in New York and his twelve years of bondage in Louisiana.
In "e;The Subconscious & The Superconscious Planes of Mind"e;, William Walker Atkinson delves into the realms of the mind that are often overlooked but hold immense power over our thoughts and actions.
"Friedrich der Große" ist ein unverzichtbares Werk für Geschichtsinteressierte, die sich für die preußische Geschichte und die Zeit des aufgeklärten Absolutismus interessieren.
Robert Falcon Scott's 'Letzte Fahrt' ist ein beeindruckendes Werk, das die dramatische Geschichte der letzten Expedition des Autors zum Südpol erzählt.
Victor Hugos 1793: Historischer Roman entführt den Leser in die Zeit der Französischen Revolution und erzählt die Geschichte von Gauvain, einem jungen Soldaten, der sich inmitten des aufgewühlten politischen Umbruchs und sozialen Unruhen Frankreichs befindet.
Stefan Zweigs historischer Roman "Amerigo" entführt den Leser in die Zeit der Entdeckung Amerikas durch Columbus und die nachfolgenden Entdeckungsreisen.
Gerhard Rohlfs' Werk 'Quer durch Afrika' präsentiert eine faszinierende Reiseerzählung, die den Leser auf eine abenteuerliche Expedition durch den afrikanischen Kontinent entführt.
In Joseph Roths Werk 'Die hundert Tage' taucht der Leser ein in die politische und gesellschaftliche Landschaft des Habsburgerreichs während der Zeit der französischen Besetzung.
