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Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in...

Founders and award-winning distillers of Kings County Distillery Colin Spoelman and David Haskell follow up their successful Guide to Urban Moonshi...

Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr. were towering figures who argued publicly about every major issue of the 1960s: the counterculture, Vietna...

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has something for everyone. The first section features a good bit of occupational lore, including ar...

A unique literary journey through select critical moments in South African history, this collection of short stories opens in Sophiatown of the 195...

As Hitlers Einsatzgruppen (mobile SS killing units) marched into the Soviet Union directly behind the advancing Wehrmacht to murder Jews and others...

Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, a...

The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon B...

Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arche...

In the short span of 17 years, the first 17 years of his life, he was known as Peter Korytowski, Pierre Engglenger and Pierre Boivin, depending ...

If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, Hmm, Ive heard of that what was that again?, then thi...

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of postapartheid South Africa from t...

Idriss Deby Itno, current ruler of Chad, is the unacknowledged cause of much of the war and mayhem in central Africa. He is responsible for ethn...

She cant stay awake. She sold drugs. Shes good at interrogations. She drinks in the mornings. She ate a rabbit. She smashed up a shop. She stabbed ...

Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish what it was 'to be Irish' within themSet within col...

Fresh from success in sinking the Albermarle in the Civil War, the young Captain Cushing was assigned to command the gunboat USS Maumee in Hong ...