Specific wars and campaigns

This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis.

This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

Next only to Continental army commander General George Washington, Nathanael Greene was the most important American general of the War for Independence.

Acclaimed as the Middle Easts "e;All Quiet on the Western Front"e;The first eye-witness account ever published of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, this riveting memoir of a young Israeli soldier became an instant bestseller on publication in 1949, and is still recognized as the outstanding book of that war, in the tradition of Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front.

Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders.

Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany.

In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

Unless you know the history, you cannot see the future.

Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium.

In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E.

WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ';A gripping reconstruction utterly compelling reading.

';One of our very best writers on France.

';A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.

Unless you know the history, you cannot see the future.

A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.

In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death.

How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest ';what ifs'.

Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South.

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.

In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E.

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade.

About half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state.

"e;It is well that war is so terrible,"e; Robert E.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St.

In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernizing, capitalist societies.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.

Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

Philip D.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

The author enlisted in the Marine Corps at 17, with dreams of becoming a hero.

A Marine Corps recruiter returns to his old stamping grounds to speak with some of the men he enlisted, their families, and the families of others who were killed in action.