History

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...

The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,0...

Foreign capital and free trade policies have provoked fierce conflicts in South America in recent years. People in Colombia and Peru engaged in ...

Released for the first time 16 years after his death, this startling autobiography by one of the so-called three tramps from the John F. Kennedy as...

Five men joined the Catholic Church in the mid-1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and two editors at odds with each other....

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today,...

The U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-1848 remains controversial even today. The California campaigns of this conflict introduce the reader to the Californi...

At the port of Yokohama in 1907, Okina Ky?in boarded the steamship Kaga Maru, bound for America. For this ambitious young man, Japanese-American ne...

England's ill-fated first attempt to colonize America at Roanoke Island in 1587, more than 30 years before the Pilgrims set sail, has been the f...

Lviv, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its his...

With the American revolutionaries in discord following victory at Yorktown and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, the proposed federal Constitution...

Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the outset, both North...

Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events l...

From 25th April 1915 to 9th January 1916, troops from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Turkey engaged in a bitter struggle for the Gallipoli peni...

Clear out the Shenandoah Valley clean and clear, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant ordered, in the late summer of 1864. His man for the job:...