'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard Holmes
Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old,……続きを見る
著者:Camilla Fojas
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年03月01日
Camilla Fojas explores a broad range of popular culture mediaーfilm, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literatureーwith an eye toward how the United States as an empire ima……続きを見る
著者:Rhys Crawley
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2014年03月19日
Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War. And the story of Gallipoli, where in August 1915 the Allied forces made their last valiant effort again……続きを見る
Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and Thereafter offers students the opportunity to learn more about important and often overlooked figures of the Civil Rights Movement. This book features ……続きを見る
First published in Russia to critical acclaim, this eloquent and personal memoir by Marianna Vekhova describes the myriad of beliefs with which Russian people sought to fill their hungry souls durin……続きを見る
著者:Bob Sanford
出版社: Rainbow Books, Inc.
発売日: 2014年03月20日
One of the Richest Men on Earth in His Later Years
Many of us have seen some of the blessings provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, mostly at the close of programs on PBS-TV……続きを見る
著者:Anthony Wood
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年10月28日
Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City’s nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the……続きを見る
In ihrer latenten Erwartung die Kirche werde nach der Machtübernahme mit der Ernennung "nationalsozialistisch" gesinnter Bischöfe auf die innenpolitischen Veränderungen im R……続きを見る
著者:Elaine Lewinnek
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership. They imagined homes as small businesses, homes that were simultaneously a consumer-orie……続きを見る
著者:Michael Fleming
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
What was the extent of allied knowledge regarding the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz during the Second World War? The question is one which continues to prompt heated historical debate, and Michae……続きを見る
著者:Sandra Opdycke
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年03月26日
In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30% in a single year, the outbreak obstructed t……続きを見る
著者:Mark Zuehlke
出版社: Orca Book Publishers
発売日: 2011年04月01日
December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute D……続きを見る
Winning the vote for southern Blacks was the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. With roots going back decades, the fight for the ballot came to a climax in 1965 with the……続きを見る
New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional……続きを見る
著者:Libby Garland
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2014年03月28日
In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and bannin……続きを見る
>A COMPANION TO JOHN F. KENNEDY
A COMPANION TO JOHN F. KENNEDY
“Marc J. Selverstone has compiled an indispensable volume of essays on John F. Kennedy and his presidency, written by a stellar cast of……続きを見る
The Ellis Island Experience offers insights and tips on the immigrant experience and shares how to document your ancestors' own story at Ellis Island - often without the need to leave the comforts o……続きを見る
著者:I D Oppenhiem
出版社: Strawberry Hightower Media
発売日: 2014年03月13日
From the author of Gulf-Diary of the Microchip War.
This concise history, also re-edited by the author of the original 1991 paperback, whilst not intended as a biography, charts the meteoric rise of……続きを見る
著者:Stuart Wexler
出版社: Stuart Wexler
発売日: 2014年03月13日
The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church remains a metaphor for the tragic sacrifice and principled persistence that marked the entire civil rights movement. That preceding May, children left t……続きを見る
A homage to Louise Brooks, in a delightful story of frolics, flappers, and sex. Pretty much sums up the 1920's in New York, really!
Lucienne Garnier may arrive from France as a virginal innocent, bu……続きを見る
The Wartime Letters of Molly Rich London 1940-1944 Throughout the Second World War, Molly Rich, a vicar's wife in London, wrote hundreds of letters to a young Austrian refugee named Otto. The boy ha……続きを見る
The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Po……続きを見る
著者:John Keegan
出版社: Random House of Canada
発売日: 2014年04月01日
With the same erudition, discernment, and crisp prose that made his A History of Warfare an international bestseller, Keegan surveys the literature of World War II, identifying the works he finds mo……続きを見る
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce ……続きを見る
著者:Frederick Brown
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年04月01日
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France (“Masterful history” ーHenry Kissinger), Zola (“Magnificent” ーThe New Yorker), and Flaubert (“Impeccable” ーJames ……続きを見る
著者:Monte M. Poen
出版社: University of Missouri Press
発売日: 2014年04月01日
“I have some bitter disappointments as President,” reflected Harry Truman after leaving office, “but the one that has troubled me the most , in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat organiz……続きを見る
著者:Logan Marshall
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年04月01日
A century after it sank to the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, the ruin of the Empress of Ireland has remained one of the most devastating tragedies in maritime history. Logan Marshall’s vivid and……続きを見る
«Per tutta la vita ho desiderato essere un rapinatore di banche, portare una pistola e indossare una maschera. Ora che è successo credo proprio di essere il miglior rapinatore che le banche abbiano ……続きを見る
著者:David Remnick
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年04月02日
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times
From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the sta……続きを見る
著者:Gemma Clark
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War presents an innovative study of violence perpetrated by and against non-combatants during the Irish Civil War, 1922–3. Drawing from victim accounts of wartim……続きを見る