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Long out of print, this new edition memoir by an intelligent and articulate “other rank", provides fascinating insights into the Great War infantryman's experience. In autumn 1915, twenty-year-old G……続きを見る

The Journal of Samuel Maclay is one man's account of a 1790 surveying expedition, commissioned by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, to explore the newly purchased land in northwestern P……続きを見る

AS CITIZENS OF A HISTORICALLY FRONTIER LAND, AMERICANS HAVE AN INHERENT DISTRUST OF THE CONFINEMENTS AND COMPLEXITIES OF THE CITY. But this ingrained romanticism about the natural lifeーthe authors ……続きを見る

The Journal of William Maclay, a diary written by Maclay as a daily private record of Senate proceedings, was intended for personal reference. It was quite common for senators at that time to take n……続きを見る

Abraham Lincoln "An Essay" from Carl Schurz. Confidante of Lincoln, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, a major-general in the Civil War, a U.S. Senator from Missouri, Secretary of the Interior in the Hayes a……続きを見る

James Francis Edward Keith (in later years Jakob von Keith; 11 June 1696 – 14 October 1758) was a Scottish soldier and Generalfeldmarschall of the Royal Prussian Army. As a Jacobite he took part in ……続きを見る

This book focuses on early skyscraper construction and the men who designed them. It contains many photographs of buildings in New York City and Chicago. "Skyscrapers and the Men Who Build Them is a……続きを見る

FREEDOM of thought and speech in the pre-war South is, as Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger observed during an address at Durham, North Carolina, on April 5, 1939, both a timely and a timeless subject……続きを見る

"Studies of Some Sturdy Examples of the Simple Life, Together with Sketches of Early Colonial History of Cumberland County and Southern New Jersey and Some Early Genealogical Records"-Subtitle. Goul……続きを見る

Charles Carroll played a big part in the drama of American Independence, a far bigger part than is popularly supposed. School histories dismiss him with a few lines and most histories give larger sp……続きを見る

In this volume Professor Notestein employs his mastery of the source material of the seventeenth century to recreate the character of the English people at a time when many Englishmen were making a ……続きを見る

首度揭露六十年來中共不敢公開的西藏血腥鎮壓 1956至1962年中共在西藏的血腥鎮壓，官方史料秘而不宣、民間口述歷史殘破不全，至今仍未解密。六十年後，本書帶讀者回到歷史現場，終於為塵封的史實帶來一線曙光。 首……続きを見る

Cold hard facts on the world's hot spots. Now readers can make sense of the daily headlines with an examination of the sides and issues of evolving conflicts. This updated edition provides coverage ……続きを見る

The Middle East is a pressure cooker of constant upheaval, and always with the threat of war in the air. But digging deeper reveals that there are complex dynamics at work, both culturally and polit……続きを見る

**In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance. 'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so……続きを見る

Em 1865, chegou a Jaicós, no interior do Piauí, a notícia de que o Governo brasileiro recrutava voluntários para lutar na Guerra do Paraguai. Ali, a cearense Jovita Alves Feitosa, de dezessete anos,……続きを見る

In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobe……続きを見る

The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast **Atomic Hobo **A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 202……続きを見る

The suffering of Syrian civilians, caught between the government’s barrel bombs and chemical weapons and religious fanatics’ beheadings and mass killings, shocked the world. Yet despite internationa……続きを見る

A Harrowing, Intimate Look into the Most Devastating War in Eight Decades Part narrative, part wartime dispatch, Hope for Ukraine transports you into the gritty reality of war-torn Ukraine--and the ……続きを見る

This is the story of a young man of seventeen and his friends who lie about their age and join the Union Army to fight in the Civil War. They run away from home, are accepted into the army and go th……続きを見る

Dagli scontri in Donbass alla guerra tra Russia e Ucraina: la genesi e la complessità dell'ultimo conflitto nel cuore dell'Europa. Nel 2014 gli scontri e poi il separatismo della provincia del Donba……続きを見る

For a fisherman to prosper, staring at and appreciating the beauty of a calm surface of a river, lake or ocean is not the way forward. To prosper, the fisherman must pierce the calm surface, no matt……続きを見る

The joint British and US campaigns in the European theater of operations during World War II rank among the most impressive examples of coalition warfare in history. In just eighteen months, the US ……続きを見る

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the star……続きを見る

Un diplomate moldave, Nicolas Milescu, déjà présenté à Louis XIV et à d’autres princes d’Europe, est envoyé par le tsar de toutes les Russies en Chine, porteur d’un message d’amitié auprès de l’empe……続きを見る

Petra Terhoeven legt nicht eine weitere Chronik der Ereignisse vor, sondern erklärt auf der Hohe der aktuellen Forschung, wie und warum aus den Stadtguerilla-Experimenten einer kleinen Minderheit ra……続きを見る

How can the current civil wars in the Middle East be resolved? This volume brings together academics, experts, and practitioners to explore this question. The book covers the history of civil wars i……続きを見る

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for work that stands as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time" (Swedish Academy). Before the United States' invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a d……続きを見る

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to jus……続きを見る