Specific wars and campaigns

The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'.

Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines The Declaration of Independence and other texts by Thomas Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides a biting critique of the current American administration.

Abraham Lincoln recognized that the US Civil War would be a "e;hard war"e;.

The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen.

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge.

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.

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Stone & Stone World War II Books Editors ChoiceContinuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, the writer cited by The Atlantic as “indisputably the Wests foremost expert on the subject” focuses here on the Red Armys operations from the fall of 1943 through the April 1944.

The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 363 detailed maps.

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 196 fascinating maps.

At Terezin, many children sang for the Nazi officials and the Red Cross.

"e;Before Alamein we never won a battle, after Alamein we never lost one.

Threatened with extermination, many Jewish people refused to go passively to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during World War II and instead put up heroic resistance.

This book tells the story of Operation Overlord, the largest and most meticulously planned seaborne invasion in the history of warfare.

At the outset of 1918 Germany faced certain defeat as a result of Allied technical innovation in tanks and aircraft, and the American entry into the war.

Vietnam was the first war America lost on the ground.

The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century.

A book about life and death, stories and skies.

Frederic Manning was born on 22nd July 1882 in Sydney, Australia, one of eight children to local politician Sir William Patrick Manning.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was born on June 22nd, 1856 at Bradenham in Norfolk, England.

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Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England on 7th June 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children.

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'A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history.

'Riveting.

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

A rethinking of the factors which led to the American entry into the war.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

"e;Without question, the decisive force in the Korean War was airpower.

Scandalous, shocking, cheeky, impudent are words that will be used to describe this account of the hidden side of our glamorous, riotous capital city.

Kate Crane Gartz delighted in describing herself as the first 'parlor Bolshevik.

Barbara Yambura was truly an Amana Dauther, descendant of a people in whose tradition and lineage she took pride.

First published in 1957, this is the story of how a young West Coaster forsakes civilization for the rugged satisfactions of homesteading in Alaska.

Together with John Howland Snow, Michigan Representative Paul W.

To readers of Dorothy Pillsbury's books, the residents of Tenorio Flat in Santa Fe are old friends.

A survey of the Chadwick family of the Northeast and North Carolina, who played a pivotal role in the development of the regional commerce.

In The Strange Death of Franklin D.

In the heyday of its water commerce, Lake Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho was the scene of more steamboating than any other lake, salt or fresh, west of the Great Lakes.

First published in 1932 and revised in 1956 by Everett J.