Told largely in the words of people who lived through this extraordinary time, The Forties: GoodTimes Just Around the Corner is a vividly remembered account of the most important decade of the twentieth century.
In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a ';compellingmasterfully told' (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness.
In this unforgettable and ';essential feminist memoir of women's lives' (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother's hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.
Fast’s powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain’s fight for freedom from governmental oppressionHoward Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain.
“This passionate, carefully researched, richly detailed, well-written study” reveals the political motives behind WWII Hollywood’s portrayal of Poles (Choice).
How did a former Austrian corporal in the Bavarian army with no obvious gift for leadership or strategy become the leader of one of the most civilized countries in Europe?
The Battle of Arnhem was a major World War II battle at the vanguard of the Allied Operation Market Garden, the dramatic but unsuccessful campaign fought by the British Army in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944.
The Battle of Arnhem was a major World War II battle at the vanguard of the Allied Operation Market Garden, the dramatic but unsuccessful campaign fought by the British Army in the Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944.
Part of Osprey Modelling 19: Modelling the German 15cm sIG33 Bison and Grille, a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling a 1/35-scale German self-propelled sIG33 Vehicle.
Part of Osprey Modelling 27 Modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G, a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8/RII in 1/72 scale.
Part of Osprey Modelling 27: Modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G, a detailed, step-by-step e-guide to modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 in 1/32 scale.
Part of Osprey Modelling 27: Modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G, this is a detailed, step-by-step e-guide to modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-4 in 1/48 scale.
Part of Osprey Modelling 27: Modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G, a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8/R8 in 1/32 scale.
Part of Osprey Modelling 23 Modelling Waffen-SS Figures, a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling a SS-Sch tze, 3rd SS-Panzer-Division 'Totenkopf' Vienna, 1945.
Part of Osprey Modelling 19: Modelling the German 15cm sIG33 Bison and Grille, a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling a 1/35-scale German self-propelled sIG33 Vehicle.
Perhaps it was Adolf Hitler's implacable hatred of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that compelled the Fu*hrer to order the taking, whatever the cost, of the city that bore his enemy's name.
Part of Osprey Modelling 19: Modelling the German 15cm sIG33 Bison and Grille, a detailed, step-by-step guide to modelling a 1/35-scale German self-propelled sIG33 Vehicle.