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Special Operations Executive
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 50.95This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles. This study shows how historians have built on the first international conference on the SOE at the Imperial War Museum in 1998. The release of many... more...
Engineering the Pyramids
The History Press 2013; US$ 18.94Using archaeological records and the basic principles of engineering, Dick Parry provides an account of the design history of the pyramids, the techniques and organisation needed and insights into why the pyramids were designed as they were. more...
Kursk: The Greatest Battle
Headline 2013; Not AvailableA monumental, enthralling work charting the greatest land battle of all time which changed the course of World War Two, by a highly regarded military expert. more...
After Thermopylae
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 18.99The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving force behind the Greek victory, the battle... more...
Franklin and Winston
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 16.95The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history?s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of ?the Greatest Generation.? In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in... more...
Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European... more...
Red Orchestra
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 27.00In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring?and least chronicled?stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo?s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who battled treacherous... more...
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 35.95Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their... more...
The Great African War
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996 to 2006. more...
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 54.99The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a new interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's response to the English Revolution. By focusing on his religious thought, it debunks the standard view of him as a royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640s and 1650s. This reinterpretation culminates with an exploration of Hobbes's... more...









