Many of the best-known and most popular children's stories of the 20th and early 21st century were written by veterans of World War I and World War II.
Originally published in 1962, the title of this book is taken from Genesis and is an allusion to the establishment of a Jewish National State as the successful termination of long centuries of exile.
The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1New York Timesbestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M.
"e;Aided by the bitter memories of the few survivors, Matthews devotes most detail to the victims, while noting that only one of his four villains could truly be said to have been brought to justice.
This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furber's discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the 'country trade' between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion in India before the age of empire.
This fourth collection of Dr Luttrell's studies on the military order of the Hospital concerns its activities on the island of Rhodes, acquired between 1306 and 1310, where it struggled to contain the naval aggression of the Anatolian Turks and to settle the island and organise its society and economy.
Die Britannic – ein Name, der in den Schatten ihrer berühmten Schwester Titanic verblasste, und dennoch eine Geschichte, die es wert ist, erzählt zu werden.