The award-winning historian's acclaimed account of British sea power throughout WWII: "e;a must-read for anyone interested in Naval warfare"e; (PowerShips magazine).
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.
Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
In the summer and autumn of 1918, the British Expeditionary Force, under Field Marshal Haig, fought a series of victorious battles on the Western Front that contributed mightily to the German Army's final defeat.
Robert Vipper (1859–1954) war vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Professor für Universalgeschichte an der Moskauer Universität und hatte sich ebenfalls als Geschichtstheoretiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker einen Namen gemacht.
Typically we think of power as economic, political, or military, but fictional narratives attached to kings, empires, religious founders, and societies have been used to create and enhance power and authority since the beginning of civilization.
'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).
Zu den wesentlichen Charakteristika der Geschichte des Fernhandels gehört die Tatsache, dass sich Warenströme häufig auf bestimmte (maritime und kontinentale) Handelswege bzw.
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.
This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War.
"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.
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.
There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show.
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.
The concentration of terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and other potentially "e;dangerous"e; populations spans the modern era.
