History

Before Jutland is an effort to understand what happened at sea in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Gran...

The Second United States Sharpshooters was a hodgepodge regiment, composed of companies raised in several New England states. The regiment was t...

The camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau were an important part of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. Over one million people were murdered i...

Return to the glamorous decade that brought us Footloose and The Breakfast Club, where leg warmers and shoulder pads were all the rage, and when ni...

Each Biography and Genealogy Master Index Cumulation of Supplements makes available in one alphabet all of the material indexed in the supplement...

This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moment...

This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21. For years the dream of many boys has been to ente...

Often depicted as one of the worlds most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to ...

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of C...

The Afghan war will be remembered for its politics more than its combat. There were few, if any, major battles. The longest war in American history...

A fascinating history of this pivotal point in Spanish and European history, this is an important new look at the conquest of Granada The sultan...

Now in its sixty-fifth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world ...

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built w...

''Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures'' Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient pa...

On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; hes reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the...

A refreshed reissue of the 1952 classic Treasure on Earth, this is the vivid and charming account of Christmas in an Edwardian country house. Phyll...

When Ashe County Memorial Hospital opened in November 1941, it was the realization of a dream for the poor, sparsely populated county in the mou...

Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 During one of the hottest summers on record the court of Henry VIII is...

Until recently, it has been difficult for anyone with an interest in the Army of Northern Virginia''s horse artillery, which served under legendary...

Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo's passion was poetry, and...

This eighth volume of Andrew Jackson's papers presents more than five hundred documents, many appearing here for the first time, from a core year i...

On the morning of 24 May 1921, a force of 800 white policemen and soldiers marched to a place called Bulhoek, about 25 kilometres southwest of Quee...

In this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions n this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notion...

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflict...

Among the myriad books examining the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), Summer Thunder is one of a kind. A terrific resource for is visitors to...

Fort Donelson's Legacy portrays the tapestry of war and society in the upper southern heartland of Tennessee and Kentucky after the key Union victo...

In 1900, the Appalachian region of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia began to change. The inhabitants were dependent on the resources of t...