Political ideologies and movements

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance - and survive the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.

For most of the last century, William F.

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries.

Say "e;Hitler"e; and people would automatically think of evil and Jews.

American foreign policy is in severe crisis.

Since the mid-1990s, there has been increasing interest in reassessing the role Ronald Reagan and his administration played in ending the Cold War.

An essential volume of essays commissioned by the American Spectator and edited by the philosopher Roger Scruton, Liberty and Civilization examines the intellectual and spiritual traditions of our belief in individual liberty, from its Judeo Christian origins on through Enlightenment philosophy.

For generations, historians of the right, left, and center have all debated the best way to understand V.

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerrs All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident.

How is it that the person who created and defined the field of Black Studies and drafted Dr.

For the men of the Army Air Corps in early World War II, the chance of surviving the obligatory twenty-five missions without death, injury, or imprisonment was one in three.

In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia.

The early morning hours of July 6, 1943, found the USS Helena off the Solomon Islands in what would later be known as the Battle of Kula Gulf.

"e;This is a great work on a small slice of operations on the Eastern Front during the first two years of the [second world] war.

The church in the United States faces a dilemma: How is it possible for Christ's followers to worship faithfully in a nationalistic environment where religion and politics enjoy a vigorous affiliation while the separation of church and state is celebrated as the standard for the relationship between nation and faith?

When Politics Meets Religion presents a fresh exploration of the relationship between religion and politics worldwide.

This major history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea.

This illustrated military history reveals the untold story of WWII snipers, from training and firearms to combat and field operations.

Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

The USS Bullhead was the last American naval vessel lost in World War II.

The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a relentless 18-month, 4,000-mile offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.

In 1940, the U.

Empowered by the Brand New Congress initiative in 2018, evangelical pastor and progressive Republican Robb Ryerse embarked on a long-shot, grassroots congressional campaign against Steve Womack, one of the most powerful Republican incumbents in Washington, DC.

"e;Author James Mills presents an amazing, detailed history review of the German surface-to-air guided missile technology development.

When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War.

This book follows the journey of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany but could not exorcise its evils from his theological and literary imagination.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare.

A compilation of information presented in United States Army World War II training manuals and tactical documents.

A complete history of naval combat in the Mediterranean and North African campaigns throughout WWII.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

Americans have been divided along political lines for so long that they have nearly forgotten how to talk to one another, much less how to listen.

A Companion to St.

Detailed analysis of WWII operations undertaken by Germany's armed forces on the Eastern Front, with illustrative case studies, maps, and diagrams.

A fully illustrated account of the Soviet offensive in the Baltics and the desperate German attempts to hold back the Red Army.

In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx explains how, under capitalism, people rely on labor to live.

A German perspective of D-Day, written by an Army Corps intelligence officer in Normandy when the Allies invaded, published in English for the first time.

How much do you really know about former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin?

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch-a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa.

In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention.

Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941.

This is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940.

The infamous eco-anarchist John Zerzan whose books have resulted in recent interviews by Vice and Believer magazines, checks in with further provocative articles about the chaotic results of civilization and technology.

"e;The ugly wife is a treasure at home"e; is not just an idle expression in China.

A comprehensive account of the development of American aircraft carriers up to and during World War II.