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The Guns at Last Light

World War II Liberation Trilogy #3

di Rick Atkinson

The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II

It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United...

War Stories of the Tankers: American Armored Combat, 1918 to Today

di Michael Green

These are the war stories few can tell, the harrowing firsthand accounts of armored combat, from the days of the centurys first tanks to the latest encounter on the streets of Baghdad. Here are the still-vivid...

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (New and expanded edition)

di Eric D. Weitz

Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive...

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

di Doris Kearns Goodwin

Winner of the Lincoln Prize

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to...

A Little History of the World

di E.H. Gombrich & Clifford Harper

The international bestseller available in English for the first time: E. H. Gombrichs world history for the curious of all ages. style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"

Shadow Warriors: Inside The Special Forces

di Tom Clancy & Carl Stiner

An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces.

Green Berets • Navy SEALS • Rangers •

Air Force Special Operations • PsyOps • Civil Affairs •

and other special-mission...

The Art of Seduction

di Robert Greene

From the creators of the New York Times-bestselling The 48 Laws of Power, comes a mesmerizing handbook on seduction: the most subtle and effective form of power

Which sort of seducer could you be: Siren?...

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

di Antony Beevor

The #1 internationally bestselling history of D-Day is now enhanced with rare video footage from the NBC News Archives for the ultimate narrative of the battle for Normandy.

"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is...

A History of the American People

di Paul Johnson & Paul M. Johnson

"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the...

D-Day Hero: CMS Stanley Hollis VC

di Mike Morgan

D-Day's only Victoria Cross winner, Stanley Hollis was uniquely recommended for this coveted award twice on 6 June. A tough, working-class rebel, Hollis was no model soldier: he was forever being 'busted' to...

Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

di Caroline Finkel

The complete history of the Ottoman empire, written for the general reader

Hitler

di A.N. Wilson

From eminent biographer A.N. Wilson, an incisive, penetrating portrait of Adolf Hitler.

Panzer Lehr Division 1944-45

di Fred Steinhardt

The Panzer Lehr Division was one of the most élite German armoured formations in existence in early 1944. Its baptism of fire was in the deadly Normandy bocage. Although suffering heavy losses in Normandy,...

Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point In Canada's Afghan Mission

di Lee Windsor & David Charters

"Our Mission was the people of Kandahar and keeping the Taliban from interfering with rebuilding. When we did use force, we had to be discriminate Killing innocent civilians would be mission failure. I had the...

To Be a U. S. Navy Seal

di Cliff Hollenbeck

This is an introduction into what it really means to be a U.S. Navy SEAL in today's U.S. Navy-in the sea, in the air, and on the land. The U.S. Navy's elite specialists are among the most highly trained forces...

Operation Phantom Fury

di Dick Camp

The Second Battle for Fallujah, dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, took place over an almost two-month period, from November 7 to December 23, 2004. The Marine Corps’ biggest battle in Iraq to date, it was so...

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

di Andrew Rimas & Evan D.G. Fraser

We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor.

Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century...

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America

di William C. Davis

William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented...

Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western

di Victor Davis Hanson

Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state...

The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln

di C.A. Tripp & Jean Baker

The late C. A. Tripp, a highly regarded sex researcher and colleague of Alfred Kinsey, and author of the runaway bestseller The Homosexual Matrix, devoted the last ten years of his life to an exhaustive study...