History

Fugitives fleeing from slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, and points farther south traversed the entire state of Illinois while moving northward. Bu...

Recruitment, propaganda, rationing, fundraising - during the First World War posters were used to inform and rally the public as never before. Ma...

McScotch himself describes his book and pays tribute to a colleague in this note, which appears at the front of the volume:This book consists of th...

In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed historynot just that of Egypt, or of the Middle East, but of the entire world. As the architect of th...

Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back. U.S. involvement in WWI (1917-1919) is vital to understanding and informing our current work in agri...

The Great Western Trail (GWT) is a nineteenth-century cattle trail that originated in northern Mexico, ran west parallel to the Chisholm Trail, tra...

A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time - fascinating for what they tell us about the way our a...

Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lan...

Sanctuaries were at the heart of Greek religious, social, political, and cultural life, however, we have a limited understanding of how sanctuary s...

Praise for the First EditionFor an understanding of what was happening and what southern progressivism was all about, [Grantham] has produced a mon...

In Command Culture, Jörg Muth examines how the United States Army and the German Armed Forces selected, educated, and promoted their officers in th...

For four years the German U-boats of U-Flottille Flandern would become a serious threat to the omnipotence of the Royal Navy and its fleet. By th...

In the fall of 1938, following Kristallnacht, the symphonic orchestra in Palestine cancelled the performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. No ...

The Ml Abrams has proved itself to be the finest main battle tank in the World since its introduction into US Army service in 1981. It combines the...

Published to coincide with the centenary commemoration of the battle of the Somme, this new study comprises 12 separate articles written by some of...

Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pikes Hirohitos War offers an...

A highly illustrated history of the development and operation of the first British tanks, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of their...

Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft? Who worked out how to measure distance or plot a course at sea? Or why t...

Written by US Navy expert Mark Stille, this book offers a unique insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. It provides a detailed i...

This is the story of Germanys commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes...