Peter Thomas was a successful churchman and crusading papal legate of the 14th century who began his career as an impoverished Carmelite friar and ended it as Latin patriarch of Constantinople.
Primo Levi’s development as a writer was expressed through multiple literary genres and an increasing awareness of his readers over the course of his forty-year writing career.
Primo Levi’s development as a writer was expressed through multiple literary genres and an increasing awareness of his readers over the course of his forty-year writing career.
From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon the Great, the dramatic story of the team of rivals who propelled the rise and fall of history's greatest warrior.
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a meteor in the hemisphere.
This new history of North Carolina during the American Revolution (and the years just before and after) traces a hard-fought transition from British colony to American state, 1763-1789.
By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best-qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end.
Pushed and prodded relentlessly, threatened ruthlessly with a long stick, the Seven Brigade staggered into the Namka Chu River valley and struggling up the formidable Karpola pass, only to face a massive Chinese build up across the River Namka Chu on the Thagla ridge.
The 17-minute flight ended in tragedy when the training aircraft spun into the ground, killing a World War Two veteran and a young pupil who might have become the first woman to gain her RAF pilot's wings.
In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventionsand ended up achieving exactly the opposite.
The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 allows students to understand and experience one of the greatest medieval atrocities, the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire.
By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best-qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end.
Written to enable readers to understand the legacy of European turmoil in the twentieth century, Europe in Crisis provides a comprehensive analysis of its two world wars, the follow-on Cold War, and their transformative effects on international relations and security affairs.
Written to enable readers to understand the legacy of European turmoil in the twentieth century, Europe in Crisis provides a comprehensive analysis of its two world wars, the follow-on Cold War, and their transformative effects on international relations and security affairs.
This monograph explores British Conflict Related Metal Boxes (CRMBs) and the memories they contain that come directly from, or are influenced by, the First World War.
This monograph explores British Conflict Related Metal Boxes (CRMBs) and the memories they contain that come directly from, or are influenced by, the First World War.
From string-and-canvas deathtraps to sleek metal machines relive the dawn of British aviation'Gripping, exuberant, racy and deeply researched, here is the amazing tale of the flying machines.
An "e;exciting and informative"e; account of the Civil War battle that opened the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with illustrations included (Lone Star Book Review).
In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventionsand ended up achieving exactly the opposite.
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a meteor in the hemisphere.
