wired - 20th Century 2

This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “W……続きを見る

In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle. He did what many other marks didーhe went home, borrowed more money from his family, and returned for anoth……続きを見る

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Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era o……続きを見る

Das Standardwerk: Über die »ganz gewöhnlichen Deutschen« als Täter Daniel Goldhagen hat mit seiner Studie über die Vollstrecker des Holocaust heftige Debatten ausgelöst. Seine These: Schon lange vor……続きを見る

Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democraticーespecially if a vibrant middle clas……続きを見る

Finely written and meticulously documented, this book describes howーvery early onーa small group of ordinary citizens began extraordinary efforts to demonstrate that the JFK assassination could not……続きを見る

Vladimir Emmanuel was a cavalry captain who fought against the Germans and later the Red Army in the Crimea. He created a wonderful set of color illustrations of the regiments he fought with in the ……続きを見る

In May 1964, Bill McAtee became the new minister at Columbia Presbyterian Church, deep in the Piney Woods of south Mississippi. Soon after his arrival, three young civil rights workers were brutally……続きを見る

An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American pressーand the journalists responsible for themーprofoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rig……続きを見る

Mass Appeal describes the changing world of American popular culture from the first sound movies through the age of television. In short vignettes, the book reveals the career patterns of people who……続きを見る

On Ken Follett’s Facebook page Pan Macmillan created a storybank, as a place for readers to upload their own, real-life stories of World War Two. This ebook contains some of the incredible, moving s……続きを見る

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewis……続きを見る

The 'Hundred Days' campaign of 1918 remains a neglected aspect of the First World War. Why was the German army defeated on the Western Front? Did its morale collapse or was it beaten by the improved……続きを見る

Titanic 100 Years On takes you through the events of the 12th April1912 and the memorable place it holds in our history.続きを見る

**NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the gre……続きを見る

A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies. Prior to……続きを見る

Everyone who was alive remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy was shot; but that’s just a brief moment in time. What shaped the countryーand even the worldーwasn’t that brief moment…it wa……続きを見る

How Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his response to the Mexican Revolution “In Wilson’s view, America had a part to play as a divine instrument. To deny the United States an active role in the wo……続きを見る

First published in 1984, this prize-winning history of the Manhattan Project is now available in paperback for the first time, fifty years after the explosion of the first atomic bomb. 続きを見る

This study, a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939, is a critique of the Paris Peace Conference and reflects the judgment shared by m……続きを見る

William & his wife, Elizabeth aka Elise, sister of Ken Marschall, the world's renowned Titanic Artist, share their experiences as playing ghosts on James Cameron's documentary, Ghosts of the Abyss. ……続きを見る

This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort,……続きを見る

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 A Richmond Times Dispatch Top Book for 2011 A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, to coincide with the thirti……続きを見る

This book represents comprehensive research into the world's Jewish press during the Second World War and explores its stance in the face of annihilation of the Jewish people by the Nazi regime in E……続きを見る

America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history o……続きを見る

An eye-opening examination of Latin America**'s role as proving ground for** U.S. imperial strategies and tactics In recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush a……続きを見る

Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy--offers here ……続きを見る

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr., just 15, flees Italy and his domineering father, sailing to America with only pennies in his pockets. He passes through Ellis Island in 1906 and ……続きを見る

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youーask what you can do for your country."ーJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inauguration Address, January 20, 1961 "Some men see things a……続きを見る