CK - Historical 51

The minister and former Marine tells his story of miraculous transformation from growing up in Spanish Harlem to walking around the world for peace. Known to many as the Walking Man, Danny Garcia ha……続きを見る

This unique anthology collects personal stories and leadership lessons from six highly-ranked officers across all branches of service. In Breaching the Summit, six senior enlisted advisors to the jo……続きを見る

Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful Britis……続きを見る

Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom, and this photo……続きを見る

This is a colour album of London Buses concentrating mainly on the 1970s which was the first decade since London Transport's inception in 1933 to feature a large number of buses on London streets wh……続きを見る

This book is a studiously edited version of the eleven volumes and more than three thousand pages of the diarist's original work. Ella Bickersteth began to put it together for her six sons, because ……続きを見る

“[A] look at the life of Manfred Von Richthofen . . . The book is built from a collection of negatives and prints the author bought at a book fair.” ーWar History Online Beginning his wartime career……続きを見る

This biography looks behind the mask of the seventeenth-century rebel who became a controversial folk hero for his role in the infamous Gunpowder Plot. Today, Guy Fawkes is an instantly recognizable……続きを見る

A bomb-disposal expert shares stories from conflict zones ranging from the Falklands to Kosovo to Iraq. Michael Haygarth left home just before his seventeenth birthday to join the Royal Air Force as……続きを見る

An exhaustive look at the final hours of the Confederacy’s most audacious general. May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak……続きを見る

A gripping memoir documenting one couple’s experience being imprisoned by the Japanese on a Philippine college campus during World War II. This is a gripping eyewitness account of internment during ……続きを見る

A fascinating biography of the British explorer whose legendary expedition to the South Pole was shrouded in controversy and tragedy. Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868-29 March 1912) was ……続きを見る

Although over 330,000 British and French soldiers were evacuated from the Dunkirk beaches between 26 May and 4 June, many thousands remained in France, most under French command. Churchill, now the ……続きを見る

A British Army veteran revisits his military career, sharing thrilling stories of Special Forces missions behind enemy lines during World War II. A pre-war Sapper, Charlie Radford served in North Af……続きを見る

A British soldier recounts his experience maintaining surveillance towers in Northern Ireland during The Troubles in this candid military memoir. Making unprecedented use of electronic surveillance,……続きを見る

'Shan' Hackett is remembered by his own and succeeding generations for a variety of achievements and attributes. A superb fighting soldier, he served with the Trans-Jordan Force, had fought through ……続きを見る

A biography of an eighteenth-century New England privateer that “takes a deep dive into the life and adventures of this colorful figure” (Fairfield Sun). From the shores of Long Island Sound to the ……続きを見る

The Life and Times of Walter Reuther recounts the events and social movements that have shaped modern America and the role Walter Reuther played in many of them. For over thirty years Reuther and hi……続きを見る

Many are the tales of young men lying about their age to join the Army, yet Jack Evans sought far more at the age of just possibly just seventeen to act behind enemy lines as an agent of the Special……続きを見る

A unique compilation of more than one thousand concise biographies of those involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the struggle for power after his death. From leading commanders in A……続きを見る

A military historian assesses the leadership style of the man who defeated Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Waterloo cemented his reputation as a great general, and much s……続きを見る

“A mosaic of thousands of tiny pieces that, seen whole, amounts to a fascinating picture of what probably was the most important moment of the Civil War.” ーThomas E. Ricks, New York Times bestselli……続きを見る

Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander, leader, administrator; the only senior German officer to start and finish the Second World War holdin……続きを見る

A memoir of a young soldier’s training as a paratrooper during WWII, his wartime service, imprisonment and return to his career for the British railways. After spending the 1930s working for the Lon……続きを見る

In the 1950s and 1960s the railway system in Ireland became a magnet for enthusiasts from Great Britain who realized that, as on the mainland, a way of life was fast disappearing as diesel traction ……続きを見る

A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year “Enthralling.”ーGeoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books “This is a story not just about Pétain but about war and resistance, t……続きを見る

Dieses Buch enthält die Biographie von Alexander von Humboldt, ein deutscher Forschungsreisender mit einem weit über Europa hinausreichenden Wirkungsfeld. In seinem über einen Zeitraum von mehr als ……続きを見る

Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the pre……続きを見る

Fascinating journey about a Marine grunt's quest for healing the wounds of his war and how he discovered the best medicine of all was tracking down and reuniting with his fellow survivors and with t……続きを見る

They were supposed to be pious, fruitful and submissive. The wealthiest women in the kingdom, Anne Beauchamp and her daughters were at the heart of bitter inheritance disputes. Well educated and ext……続きを見る