History and Archaeology

The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War.

Was the Lost Colony of Roanoke really lost?

This book illustrates that the perception of an external threat to the security of Saudi Arabia's national interests is the major factor behind Saudi external alliances.

It's interesting to know that despite the absence of great technological feats and volumes of information, the Aztecs were able to create a highly progressive government and society.

They came to fight for freedom and their country, they came to fight Germans.

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Contains 9 maps and 30 photo illustrationsThe Australian Corps gained a towering reputation as a fighting force during the First World War; firm in defence and nigh-on unstoppable in attack.

This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina.

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Kate Crane Gartz delighted in describing herself as the first 'parlor Bolshevik.

A novel based on the history of Topsail Island, NC, beginning with the final days of piracy in the era dominated by the infamous Blackbeard.

If you really want to know what makes Barack Obama tick, you need to understand his education.

When the Great Depression hit, millions of families were affected but the degree of effect varied greatly between cities and farms.

L’idée d’une femme médiévale forte et puissante semble insolite.

First published in 1951, this book recounts the nostalgic antics of hell-raising pistol shooters of the 1930's.

This book provides a quick but in-depth discussion of the beginnings of Easter.

Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists.

A memoir of the Spanish Civil War with “the plainness of Orwell but the metaphorical soaring of a poem .

In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries.

Politics: Who Gets What, When, How, which was first published in 1936, is the classic analysis of power and manipulation by ruling elites and counter-elites.

After the death of his father, John is seeking answers.

Learning history will never be boring with this educational book.

Think of the ancient Greek society like a ladder.

Make ancient history kid-friendly by carefully crafting the texts and then adding relevant images.

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Field Marshal Wavell was one of the most successful British Army commanders of the Second World War, often given the toughest assignments, usually greatly outnumbered and with few resources.

Peru could be far from home but what happened in its historic past has greatly influenced your present.

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European.

In this book, first published in 1927, British painter and writer Sydney Bristowe describes her Cain-Sargon of Akkad equation theory.

Nature never intended Southern California to be anything but desert, so they said.

"e;A highly regarded memoir of the Indian and Civil Wars.

Texas was built on stories of cactus, cattle, and cowboys that have stretched as big as the state itself to encompass the even more fabulous tales of railroads, oil, and the bravest of settlers.

Make history fun even with all the dates and information in tact with the use of this accurately summarized history book.

Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe.

Thirty six year old MacDonald Smith (Mac to his friends) and his wife Deborah, who was a year his junior, emigrated from England to New Zealand in August 1950, just a few months after their wedding in Spain.

This is a fascinating biography of Richard III, the infamous King of England who reigned for just two years in the late 15th century.

Let's go visit the ancient people and see the world as they see it.

One humble GI working for the OSS in London recounts his experiences under bombardment by the Nazi wonder-weapon, the V-1 flying rocket.

"e;This book is of interest to any scholar of World War II, particularly those focused on bridging culture and war.

The finest jockey rider on the English turf during the nineteenth century was George Fordhamlauded throughout the sport as the Demon.

In Twilight in Vienna, first published in its English translation in 1938, Austrian-British journalist Willi Frischauer examines the sociological aspects, the reign of poverty, the lack of jobs, the morass of debt and financial chaos, and the lust for luxurious indulgence- all of which led up to revolutionary ideas, militarization, and finally a reactionary government.

'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' - Mike DavisIn a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power.

From the wars of antiquity to the recent events in South West Asia, landing craft and amphibians have been an ever-present sea borne and battle space asset in one form or another for the commander wanting to get boots on the ground.

A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives.

Is it possible, at all, to visit ancient Greece without leaving the comforts of home?