History

April 6, 1944. A detachment of German soldiers arrive in a rural French town, hunting down resistance fighters, many of whom are hiding in the regi...

Situated in the heart of London's Holland Park are the remains of Holland House - the site of what was once England's most celebrated political s...

Great War Railwaymen details the incredible achievement of the railways & railway workers during the first world war, exploring not only the va...

This volume continues the ambitious project, undertaken by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, to transcribe and annotate secretly rec...

Franklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who dreamed of justice and then ...

Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that com...

Soldiers disguised as a herd of cows, cork bath mats for troops crossing streams and a tank with a piano attachment for camp concerts are just some...

The pilgrimage to Mecca - the hajj - is a major aspect of the Islamic religion, yet little has been written about its history or of the conditions ...

At the height of World War II, while the Germans were setting their sights on Moscow, Free French, British and Australian forces launched an assaul...

This book is a companion volume to the authors Women in Ancient Rome, first published in 2013. It provides a much-needed analysis of how women beha...

In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, kille...

Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska''''s Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberat...

George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the Mexican American Generation (19301960)...

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England Edward III (13121377) was the most successful European ruler of ...

Dragon Wagon is the second in a series of titles covering the U.S. Armys Heavy Tank Transporters. The first volume covered the M25/M26 Pacific fami...

Horatio Nelson was one of the most successful leaders Britain has ever produced. A legend in his own lifetime, he has inspired many hundreds of boo...

What does U.S. history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraq war, this survey chro...