History

Rogues, aristocrats, and a future U.S. president. These and other governors are portrayed in this revised and updated edition of the classic refere...

Do historians write their biographies with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and Dav...

One man's role in the Abdication of Edward VIII has been secret ever since the crisis over his love for Mrs Simpson unfolded in December 1936. Desc...

As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use again...

This is a blistering account of the battle of Cowpens, a short, sharp conflict which marked a crucial turning point in the American Revolution. Wit...

Today's world is the product of the late middle ages. In what is now called 'Flanders', a new kind of man emerged. A practical man, an entrepreneur...

Mention of this Derbyshire market towns name invariably conjures up an image of an iconic landmark: the crooked church steeple. However, it also sp...

Reinventing Indonesia presents an insider's view of the tumultuous transition that took place in Indonesia from 1997 to 2004. This was a period of ...

Drive critical, engaged learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new Course Book...

The exchange of ideas makes history as surely as the exchange of gunfire. The Age of Globalization (previously published as Under Three Flags) is ...

From an acclaimed World War II writer comes an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole ...

The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab co...

In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot Sch...

Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off from Tarrant Rushton towing six Horsas carrying a co...

Alexander M. McCook, one of the youngest major generals in the Union army, was a member of a patriotic family from Ohio that became known as the...

Preferring anonymity, Murdoch John McSween wrote over 80 letters under the pseudonym Long Grabs to the Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina), s...