wired - History 70

Here is the story of what life was like for a boy growing up in a small southern town during the years of the Great Depression, then continuing on to service in World War II, getting an education, a……続きを見る

My personal history with the Delaware & Hudson Railway in Oneonta,NY dates back some 60 years to 1951. My grandfather loved trains and as early as the tender age of 8 years old I was accompanying hi……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 History Series. First eBook Edition 2017. Halsey’s Fast Carrier Task Force was the ultimate naval armada during WWII. To protect the carriers squadrons of destroyers were p……続きを見る

Eritrea Struggle for Nation Building and self-guide. Eritrea History Political, Military and Cultural Book. The Eritrean people resort to armed struggle mainly because all efforts made to gain its i……続きを見る

The inaugural title in a collaboration between the Wiener Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets, 'Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful' and 'German Judaism in Political, Economic and……続きを見る

The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them' Ian ……続きを見る

William Harrison Ainsworth's novel 'Jack Sheppard' is a gripping historical novel that takes readers on a journey through the roguish underworld of 18th-century London. Ainsworth's vivid description……続きを見る

For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in te……続きを見る

Banned from taking naval vessels to foreign ports after WW1 Germany undertakes a comprehensive oceanographic expedition to the Atlantic Ocean to test many new measurement systems and to establish th……続きを見る

Away down in the Indian Ocean there is a long chain of islands that stretches from Burmah to Australia. One of these is New Guinea which is the largest island in the world (leaving out Australia), a……続きを見る

Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy that befell Scott.?? Their tents……続きを見る

This division of the great western continent is more than five thousand miles in length; and, in some latitudes, is four thousand miles wide. It was originally discovered by Europeans, about the con……続きを見る

A Very Civil War is the first complete account of the important but much neglected story of Switzerlands civil war of 1847. Fought over issues similar to those of the American Civil War, the compara……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world’s foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The bit……続きを見る

Sources in Chinese History, now in its second edition, has been updated to include re-translations of over a third of the documents. It also incorporates nearly 40 new sources that work to familiari……続きを見る

For many years I have ardently wished that it had been possible for me to plead, in your presence, the great cause of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Conscious that I was accountable to you for th……続きを見る

It is an unheard of case! A huge flying machine measuring 60 x 64 m and weighing 300 tons disappears without a trace in the gloom of the Malayan night! The search for six years is still fruitless, a……続きを見る

""Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not return, this narrative of events connected with the expedition to Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements ……続きを見る

中國三部曲 THE CHINA TRILOGY 隨著中國全球影響力與日俱増，我們既須探究其內涵，更需要積極尋找更有意義的客觀切入點，纔能深入理解其未來前景。 本系列將透過兩千年、四百年、一百年之不同長度視野，由「大歷史……続きを見る

My début upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845. The scene of this first important event in my adventurous career, being in Scott county, in the State of Iowa. My parents, Isaac and ……続きを見る

The writer of these pages was born at Laxfield, a village in the County of Suffolk, on the 16th day of January, 1809, the forty-eighth year of our good King George the Third’s happy reign. That even……続きを見る

After emigrating from Germany to Michigan at age seven, Johannes Strieter (1829-1920) served as a confessional Lutheran pastor in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana amid almost unbelievable hard……続きを見る

“Law in America is a little gem. It is a peerless introduction to our legal historyーconcise, clear, tellingly told, and beautifully written. The greatest living historian of American law has done i……続きを見る

Artistic and Political Patronage in Early Stuart England explores the remarkable life and career of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke. Pembroke was one of the most influential aristocrats duri……続きを見る

Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legend When it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception……続きを見る

Offers a broad range of texts spanning six centuries of imperial Roman historyーVolume II of Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justini……続きを見る

A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empireーfrom its establishment to decline and beyond Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of ……続きを見る

It was toward the close of a bright October day. The last rays of the setting sun were reflected from one of those sylvan lakes peculiar to the Sierras of California. On the right the curling smoke ……続きを見る

The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and impli……続きを見る

Although divided into numerous tribes or families, each speaking a different language, the Indians were, in traits of character and general appearance, very much alike. In war they were courageous, ……続きを見る