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Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of the September 11, 2001 attacks in America reverberate to this day. Though Osama Bin Laden has been kill……続きを見る

If the Watergate scandal was a previous generation's National Nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was our National Wet Dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter Joe Eszterhas? ……続きを見る

The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generatio……続きを見る

In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorializ……続きを見る

The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them instantly. Craig Collie is the first perso……続きを見る

Everyone knows that work in America is not what it used to be. Layoffs, outsourcing, contingent work, disappearing career laddersーthese are the new workplace realities for an increasing number of p……続きを見る

Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most not……続きを見る

The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings’ compelling account of the forgotten war. 'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' – Guardian On 25 June 1950 the inva……続きを見る

"The Right Stuff without the hype, Yeager without the ego."ーWashington Post Book World "While the jet-jockey competitiveness, the undercurrent of fear, the victories and foul-ups of jet sweeps have……続きを見る

During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychologi……続きを見る

A century ago a surprising amount of southern beachfront property was owned and populated by African Americans. In a path-breaking combination of social and environmental history, Kahrl shows how th……続きを見る

This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain’s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy……続きを見る

Glamorized, mythologized and demonized – the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generatio……続きを見る

April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction.……続きを見る

This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the sta……続きを見る

Die einzigartigen Betrachtungen eines Mannes über die wiederkehrenden Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit in Auschwitz Die Metropole des Todes, das ist Auschwitz-Birkenau. Als Kind wird Otto Dov Kulka zu……続きを見る

The Spanish Civil War created a conflict for Americans who preferred that the United States remain uninvolved in foreign affairs. Despite the country's isolationist tendencies, opposition to the ris……続きを見る

The Second World War almost destroyed Stalin's Soviet Union. But victory over Nazi Germany provided the dictator with his great opportunity: to expand Soviet power way beyond the borders of the Sovi……続きを見る

This book contains the complete collection of all 129 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Alabama at the time of the Great Depression in the U……続きを見る

The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass 'production' of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growin……続きを見る

Following the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, it appears that the 'high degree of autonomy' promised to Hong Kong is limited in many ways. China's reservations about the development of d……続きを見る

A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, se……続きを見る

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRPーand he lived to tell about it. As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump……続きを見る

The history of National Socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, and one whose significance extends far beyon……続きを見る

When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and fo……続きを見る

This book contains the complete collection of all 63 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Indiana at the time of the Great Depression in the Un……続きを見る

Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. H……続きを見る

**A National Book Award Finalist "The Young Hemingway will entertain and surprise…It should rank as one of the best nonfiction books of the year." ーLos Angeles Times** Michael Reynolds recreates th……続きを見る

Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved milli……続きを見る

John Quincy and Louisa Adams’s unexpected journey that changed everything. American Phoenix is the sweeping, riveting tale of a grand historic adventure across forbidding oceans and frozen tundraーf……続きを見る