Historical 70

The year was 1967 and I was going to college in Miami, Florida. Since the war in Vietnam had started in 1965, my student deferment had kept me from getting drafted. Everyone had told me that it woul……続きを見る

Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the……続きを見る

Former U.S. Army Ranger Chuck Holton shows how God oversees our training and gives each of us specific skills to accomplish the mission He has for us in this great spiritual war. The rigor of becomi……続きを見る

In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry a……続きを見る

Review by Claudia Pemberton for the Military Writers Society of America It's not often that a reader is privy to the intimate writings of an individual's diary and/or personal letters, but on the ra……続きを見る

_______________ 'If you read one book about George W. Bush and his presidency, this should be it' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink 'Precisely because he does not think Georg……続きを見る

John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of al……続きを見る

The New York Times bestselling book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six – the covert squad that killed Osama Bin Laden SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, an……続きを見る

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A com……続きを見る

How do combat veterans and their loved ones bridge the divide that war, by its very nature, creates between them? How does someone who has fought in a war come home, especially after a tour of duty ……続きを見る

*Includes pictures of Hood, Thomas, and important people, places, and events.*Includes maps of major battles they fought in.*Includes quotes from Hood's memoir describing his fighting in major battl……続きを見る

A compelling look at the military career, lessons, and legacy of America's first general and first president. Before he became "the Father of our Country," George Washington was the Father of the Am……続きを見る

To coincide with the Channel 4 series to be aired at the end of this year – David Starkey's ‘Monarchy’ charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and th……続きを見る

The great heroine of the First War of Indian Freedom. She lived for only twenty-two years. She became a widow in her eighteenth year. Jhansi, of which she was the queen, was in the grip of the cunni……続きを見る

Here in one convenient book by a noted Sherlockian scholar is everything needed for the study and enjoyment of the Holmes canon: information on the stories and their publishing history; an assessmen……続きを見る

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Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke is best known for his direction of the German/Prussian campaigns against Austria in 1866 and France in 1870-71, yet it was during his service as chief of the Ge……続きを見る

Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a ……続きを見る

International bestseller Bill Bryson brings us this brilliantly readable biography of the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare. Join Bill as he takes you on a journey through Elizabethan……続きを見る

An uncommonly honest, heartbreaking and hilarious memoir that will have you putting the book down only to laugh out loud, For the Love of God! is a story of wavering faith, wavering love and a rock ……続きを見る

**A remarkable eyewitness account of the most brutal combat of the Pacific War, from Peleliu to Okinawa, this is the true story of R.V. Burgin, the real-life World War II Marine Corps hero featured ……続きを見る

I. Van Noorwegen naar de Groote Barrière. Mijn programma.ーDe toebereidselen aan boord van de Fram.ーProeftochten.ーZielkundige waarnemingen over de honden.ーOponthoud op Madera.ーIk onthul mijn met……続きを見る

‘Niklaas Koen’, depicts the intriguing biography of a remarkable yet shrouded man. Progeny of the slave era, of questionable background, born in poverty, rejected by his parents - Niklaas Koen mix……続きを見る

40 ways to get killed without seeing combat came about when we lost two guys in boot camp. I thought at that time "Do the mother's of these guys get a flag?" I quickly learned that you did not have ……続きを見る

The life of a small boy living in a London suburb which sustained heavy damage from enemy bombing where over a hundred of its citizens were killed and only ten percent of its buildings survived the ……続きを見る

In the latter part of WW2, more than a ... million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia. They went on to suffer deprivation and brutality, most of them fail……続きを見る

She ruled over a small state, Keladi, for twentyfive years (1671-1696), but proved herself a great and heroic queen. She protected the kingdom when her husband failed in his duty. And she faced the ……続きを見る

His name was Musso, a son of Kediri known for his religious diligence as a child. Having received his political education while staying at the boarding house of HOS Tjokroaminoto, his influence duri……続きを見る

The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A ……続きを見る

In his time, Harry S. Truman was one of the most under-rated presidents of the twentieth century. Succeeding the charismatic Roosevelt, he was often seen as an uninspiring leader, a poor diplomat an……続きを見る