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The Guns at Last Light
Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 40.99The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson?s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century?s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson... more...
Europe
Basic Books 2013; US$ 35.00If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe can control the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize... more...
Masters of Death
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.95In Masters of Death , Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen?s role in the Holocaust. These ?special task forces,? organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women,... more...
Dark Continent
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.00Los Angeles Times Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips... more...
Battling Buzzards
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 7.99The Few and the Brave Convinced by 1943 that the assault upon Nazi-held Europe would yield swiftly to elite troops, the U.S. Army created parachute regimental combat teams. Drawing on daring volunteers willing to hurl themselves from airplanes and hit the ground fighting, the 517th PRCT became one of the most highly trained airborne units in the... more...
A World Lit Only by Fire
Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 9.99William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages. more...
The English Civil War
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2010; US$ 14.99The English Civil War is a subject of perennial interest. This book presents the ?essentials? of the conflict in the form of a readable chronological narrative, beginning with the causes of the war and ending with the execution of King Charles I. The author, who has been exploring battlefields for 50 years, describes the celebrated battles ? including... more...
The Magic Lantern
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory -- or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely... more...
Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 59.00This book examines the social and political activities of the English Dissenters in the age of the American Revolution. more...
The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 28.00A study of the flourishing market for horses in pre-industrial England. more...









