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Fighter Pilot's Call to Arms
Defending Britain and France Against the Luftwaffe, 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Stunned into action by the rapid collapse of his country in 1938, Czech pilot Stanislav Fejfar escaped and traveled through Poland to serve initially with the French Foreign Legion, then as a sous-lieutenant with the French air force in early 1940. After the demise of that country, he fled to England...
Embodied History
The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts...
The Birth of Classical Europe
A History from Troy to Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe
The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we...
Grey Wolf
The Escape of Adolf Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
DID HITLER--CODE NAME “GREY WOLF”--REALLY DIE IN 1945?GRIPPING NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED… When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, “No.” As late as 1952, Eisenhower declared: “We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible...
Murders that Made Headlines
Crimes of Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This fascinating chronicle of murder in the Hoosier State paints a chilling portrait of the American Midwest from mid-19th century to the Jazz Age.
In Murders that Made Headlines, Jane Simon Ammeson uncovers a grizzly history of crime in Indiana, offering a stark contrast to the nostalgic...
Lost Girls
The Invention of the Flapper
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In the glorious, boozy party after the first World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young, impetuous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as this book...
Caligula
The Damned Emperors Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
'An engrossing new spin on a well-known tale' Antonia Senior, The Times
**'**Caligula as you've never seen him before! A powerfully moving read from one of the best ancient world authors in the business' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network
Everyone knows his name. Everyone thinks they know...
Catalaunian Fields AD 451
Rome’s last great battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following the battle, whilst the Huns, shattered and demoralized,...
by Simon MacDowall
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
An up-close look at the Germanic people who sacked Rome in the fifth century AD.
On 31 December AD 406, a group of German tribes crossed the Rhine, pierced the Roman defensive lines, and began a rampage across Roman Gaul, sacking cities such as Metz, Arras, and Strasbourg. Foremost amongst them...
The End of Grand Strategy
US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s...
by Simon Dubnow
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
What is Jewish History? In the first place, what does it offer as to quantity and as to quality? What are its range and content, and what distinguishes it in these two respects from the history of other nations? Furthermore, what is the essential meaning, what the spirit, of Jewish History? Or, to...
by Ben Simon
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The main argument in the book is that Al-Qaeda was established because of the internal political conflict within Islamic countries, and its leaders have understood that in order to be able to fight the Arabic-Muslim local regimes and become a proper alternative to them, it first has to fight the West,...
Heart of Darkness
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood components--dark matter and dark energy--comprise most of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all...
by Simon MacDowall
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The fascinating history of “a race that simply would not accept defeat” (Books Monthly).
In the late fourth century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 378 was one of Rome’s greatest defeats. Both western...