From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire comes the story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIA's endless war against Islamic radicalism.
A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches 'Endearingly personal, honest and reflective .
'Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past' Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off the mapThe siege of Saint Petersburg - then known as Leningrad - stands as a testament to human endurance.
One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of his brother on active service, decides to fight the Nazis and joins SOE.
'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.
Being an Account: The Memoirs of Ernest Lycette, 1911–1921 is the first-hand memoir of Ernest Lycette, a Staffordshire scoutmaster and St John Ambulance volunteer who enlisted in the British Army in August 1914 and served through the First World War and its aftermath.
Fire on the High Seas: America's Undeclared War with FranceBefore the War of 1812, before the Barbary Wars, there was a conflict most Americans have never heard of — and yet it changed everything.
Born into slavery and denied even the certainty of his own birthday, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the most powerful voices of the 19th century.
Civil Unrest: A Comprehensive History of the American Civil WarFrom the smoldering tensions of a divided nation to the final surrender at Appomattox Court House, Civil Unrest takes readers on an unflinching journey through the most defining conflict in American history.
In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
The Needle & The ShadowA lobotomist's war, a doctor's betrayal, and the dark legacy of american psychiatryThere are rooms in American history that were never meant to be seen.
Nuclear War: The Day Humanity Stood on the Edge is a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of one of the most dangerous realities ever created by humankind—atomic conflict.
The Taiping Rebellion stands as one of the deadliest and most fascinating conflicts in human history, reshaping China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty.
The Lost Scrolls of The Methods of the Sima offers a disciplined interpretive examination of what is absent from one of early China's most institutional approaches to warfare.
The Assyrian Empire was one of the most powerful and formidable civilizations of the ancient world, dominating the Near East through military strength, advanced administration, and cultural achievements.
The Peloponnesian War stands as one of the most defining conflicts of the ancient world, a brutal and complex struggle between two of Greece's greatest powers: Athens and Sparta.
From the earliest human journeys guided by stars and landmarks to the precision of satellite-based systems, A Short History of Navigation charts the remarkable story of how humanity learned to find its way across land and sea.
Ebook Description (Long – paste here)Blood Empire is a powerful and unfiltered exploration of war, power, and the hidden truths behind some of the most devastated regions in the world, including Iraq, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, and LebanonLebanon
218,000,000 years ago, the impact of a large asteroid on Wilkes Land, Antarctica, caused a crater 500 km in diameter, the collision would have produced about 8000 million megatons.
The Boxer Rebellion saw impoverished Chinese peasants strike a blow against the Western powers, particularly the British, who had come to challenge China's sovereignty.
Dieses Buch versammelt intime Stimmen aus modernen Kriegsgebieten - von personlich geschriebenen Briefen uber tagebuchartige Aufzeichnungen bis hin zu kurzen Nachrichten uber digitale Kanale - und erzahlt damit die Geschichte des Krieges aus zahlreichen Blickwinkeln.
"e;A Short History of Money"e; takes readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of money, from its earliest forms in barter systems to the complex global financial structures of today.
For generations, Americans have been told a comforting lie: that slavery was only a side issue, that the Civil War was really about "e;states' rights,"e; economics, or cultural differences.
