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'Fascinating ... if this gripping account teaches anything, it is the folly of tyrannical regimes believing they can act with the same violence a...

Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the Jim Crow era because they were denied admittance to white-only hospitals. W...

A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2022 A USBBY 2023 Outstanding International BookA 2022 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner (Graphic Novels & Comics ...

In March 1940, Oberleutnant Wilhelm Walther transferred from Aufkl rungs-Abteilung 5, an armoured reconnaissance unit, to Bau-Lehr-Bataillon z.b.V....

Following the success of the first book in the series covering 1914, Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1915 is a labour of love fro...

The region along Deep River in central North Carolina once boasted a small but significant coal mining industry that for nearly two centuries provi...

The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-pr...

James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of ra...

It is no surprise that the Air Ministry chose an author of H.E. Bates' talents to portray the battle over the night skies of Britain whilst the war...

In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed thei...

Shows how the work of orchestral conductors was shaped by and enriched cultural life in Britain from the late Victorian era to World War I. Drawin...