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| By Richard Gwyn - $37.00 - add to cart | |
Winner of the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded...
| By Ben Macintyre - $16.95 - add to cart | |
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside ...
| By James S. Corum - $29.95 - add to cart | |
Four case studies--Algeria, Cyprus, Vietnam, and Iraq--reveal the common mistakes military and civilian leaders make when confronting insurgencies.
| By John Gascoigne - $21.95 - add to cart | |
Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely...
| By Yitzchak Mais - $22.95 - add to cart | |
Moving first-hand accounts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust are supported by photographs, ritual objects, and art produced clandestinely by Jews in ghettos and camps. Several entries are f...
| By Peter Edwards - $32.95 - add to cart | |
I have a Son who is 1st Lieut. and Adjutant in the Army of the U.S. of America station at Nashville Tennessee from where I am continually receiving communications on general events some of which co...
| By Kathryn Shevelow - $30.50 - add to cart | |
he engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew...
| By Simon Baatz - $29.95 - add to cart | |
It was a crime that shocked the nation, a brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child, by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richar...
| By Thomas J. Craughwell - $21.95 - add to cart | |
Compelling stories and unforgettable characters More than 800 years have past since the last barbarian horde slaughtered and plundered its way across Asia and Europe, yet civilized folks are sti...
| By Geert Mak - $23.00 - add to cart | |
From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun...
| By Ramachandra Guha - $19.95 - add to cart | |
India is the country that was never expected to ever be a country. In the late 19th century, Sir John Strachey, a senior British official, grandly opined that the territory's diverse states simply ...
| By William Rosen - $17.50 - add to cart | |
In Justinians Flea, William Rosen tells the story of historys first pandemica plague seven centuries before the Black Death that killed tens of millions, devastated the empires of Persia and Rome, ...
| By Anna Porter - $24.95 - add to cart | |
The true, heart-wrenching tale of Hungary's own Oskar Schindler, a lawyer and journalist named Rezso Kasztner who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during the last chaotic days of World War ii--a...
| By Karl E. Meyer - $31.00 - add to cart | |
Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others i...
| By Robert Gellately - $22.00 - add to cart | |
A historian of Nazi Germany (Backing Hitler, 2001), Gellately here compares it to its totalitarian enemy, Soviet communism. At pains to distinguish the two dictatorships both ideologically and by t...
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