ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2020ONE OF VANITY FAIR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of the greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century the true effects of the atom bomb potentially saving millions of lives.
Thomas Rid's revelatory history of cybernetics pulls together disparate threads in the history of technology, from the invention of radar and pilotless flying bombs in World War Two to today's age of CCTV, cryptocurrencies and Oculus Rift, to make plain that our current anxieties about privacy and security will be emphatically at the crux of the new digital future that we have been steadily, sometimes inadvertently, creating for ourselves.
The extraordinary true story of how three women - a fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - raced against Hitler's SS to get key evidence into the hands of the Allies.
This diary, begun after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and covering the invasion of Burma up to June 1942, is a moving account of the dilemmas faced by the well-loved and prolific Burmese author Theippan Maung Wa (a pseudonym of U Sein Tin) and his family.
Kabul is a name that has had much resonance in current affairs over the last few years, however its place in military history can be charted much further back to the first British incursions into Afghanistan during the 19th century.
'The best biography I've read recently' - Colin Bateman, Sunday Independent'An excellent examination of Mayne Ross corrects many of the myths about him that have flourished over the years' - History of War magazine'This welcome reassessment, officially backed and well-researched, sets the record straight' Soldier magazine'Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War.
It's common knowledge that the Enigma cipher was broken at Bletchley Park, but less is known of the background: an exhilarating spy story of secret documents smuggled across borders, hair-raising escapes, Gestapo interrogations and betrayals.
Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman J.
On the morning of September 22, 1979, an American Vela Hotel satellite orbiting high above the desolate expanse of the South Indian Ocean detected something terrifying.
Im dunkelsten Kapitel des Jahres 1942, als die Angst vor einer deutschen Invasion Großbritanniens ihren Höhepunkt erreichte, entwickelte Winston Churchills Regierung einen Plan von unfassbarer Zerstörungskraft.
Warum kauft das deutsche Militär fast tausend hochkomplexe, amerikanische Schönwetter-Abfangjäger, rüstet sie völlig zweckentfremdet mit schwersten Bomben aus und schickt sie in den stürmischen, unvorhersehbaren Himmel Mitteleuropas?
How does a proud, world-class navy make the agonizing decision to deliberately blow up and sink its own armada of 77 warships right in its home harbor?
How did the Soviet Union manage to listen to the most highly classified, top-secret conversations inside the United States Ambassador's private study in Moscow for seven consecutive years, without ever hiding a microphone, a power wire, or a battery in the room?
How did the brightest engineering minds of the British military during World War II manage to design a weapon so phenomenally absurd and unpredictable that it routinely chased its own generals down the beach during testing?
Dieses Buch erzählt die kaum glaubliche, aber historisch belegte Geschichte von "Operation Paperclip" – dem US-Geheimprogramm, das nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hunderte deutsche Wissenschaftler, darunter ehemalige NSDAP-Mitglieder, in die Vereinigten Staaten brachte.
Dieses Buch enthüllt die erschütternde Geschichte der japanischen Einheit 731 – eines geheimen Militärprogramms, das während des Zweiten Weltkriegs grausame Menschenversuche im Namen der Wissenschaft durchführte.
During the bloody climax of World War II, the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) devised a psychological warfare tactic so incredibly bizarre and meticulously planned, it sounds like pure fiction.
A fascinating account of the Fifth Crusade, the campaign to conquer Egypt and regain the Holy LandIn 1217, the crusader states were in a highly fragile condition.
Byzantium is commonly taken to be a somewhat exotic entity on the margin of medieval Europe--bureaucratic, Greek- rather than Latin-speaking, Orthodox rather than Catholic, wealthy and effete, relying on cunning rather than martial exploits to foil its enemies.
This book examines the gender and family dimensions of mobilisation for the First World War in the Ottoman Empire, situating the war in a long-nineteenth-century social history of Ottoman military reform for the first time.
This book examines the gender and family dimensions of mobilisation for the First World War in the Ottoman Empire, situating the war in a long-nineteenth-century social history of Ottoman military reform for the first time.
Most of the great military campaigns and breakthroughs of World War II would not have been successful without the efforts of teams of people working unsung and undercover.
PRE-ORDER THE ACTION-PACKED STORY OF THE WWII GROUP THAT BECAME OUR SAS, FROM ONE OF THE UK'S MOST STORIED SPECIAL FORCES OPERATORS History at its gripping, fascinating finest THE DAILY EXPRESS'A must read for any military enthusiast' JASON FOX Brilliant Stuff.
Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution.
This book explores the enduring legacy of the battleship Yamato, weaving together history, myth, and cultural impact to reveal how a wartime icon became a symbol of Japan's identity and imagination across generations.
Reconstruction explores one of the most transformative and contested eras in American history: the years after the Civil War, when the United States attempted to rebuild the defeated South, define freedom after slavery, and decide whether democracy could truly include formerly enslaved people.
This book explores the enduring legacy of the battleship Yamato, weaving together history, myth, and cultural impact to reveal how a wartime icon became a symbol of Japan's identity and imagination across generations.
The American West explores one of the most dramatic and contested periods in United States history: the transformation of the West during the nineteenth century.
