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World History For Dummiesby Peter Haugen
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 19.99Now updated! Your personal tour guide to the history of the world Want to know more about global history? This concise guide explains in clear detail all the major players and events that have made the world what it is today. Covering the entirety of human history, this comprehensive resource highlights important developments in everything from religion and science to art and war — giving you an understanding of how the 21st-century world came to be. Begin to connect with the past — label the eras as you meet the Neanderthals, home in on Homer, raise Atlantis, and preserve Pharaohs Find strength in numbers — trace the growth from ancient civilizations to today's global community and discover what makes societies succeed... more...
The Grand Allianceby Winston Churchill
RosettaBooks 2003; US$ 7.99The Grand Alliance describes the end of an extraordinary period in British military history in which that country stood virtually alone against the German onslaught. Two crucial events bring about the end of Britainīs isolation and prove to be key turning points in the war against Hitler. The first is Hitlerīs well-documented decision to attack the Soviet Union, opening up a battle front in the East. The second event is the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into the war. more...
The Hinge of Fateby Winston Churchill
RosettaBooks 2003; US$ 7.99The fourth volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Civilization itself seems at stake in these early months of American intervention and the fall of France. Churchill, wartime Prime Minister through this period, incorporates contemporary documentation and his own reminiscences. more...
Band of Brothersby Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 11.99They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak -- in Holland and the Ardennes -- Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Divison, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach;... more...
Decisions for War, 1914-1917by Richard F. Hamilton; Holger H. Herwig
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 20.00Decisions for War focuses on the question: why did World War I happen? The book shows how in each country, the decision to enter the war was made by only a handful of individuals - monarchs, ministers, military people, party leaders, ambassadors, and others. more...
Adventure Guide to Scandinaviaby Henrik Berezin
Hunter Publishing 2006; US$ 15.00Each country - Sweden, Norway and Denmark - is unique, but all three have been bound together by a common heritage since the Viking era. This guide covers the major cities (Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm), as well as the small towns and the beautiful mountains, forests and lakes. The spectacular fjords here are long and usually enclosed by mountains. The author explores the legends, the history, and the food, from Sweden?s smorgasbord to the 200 kinds of fish eaten in Norway! more...
Imperial Eyesby Mary Louise Pratt
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 37.95Updated and expanded throughtout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field. more...
The Greatest Day in Historyby Nicholas Best
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 15.95Unlike 1945, the First World War did not end neatly with the unconditional surrender of the Germans. After a dramatic week of negotiations, military offensives and the beginning of a Communist revolution, the German Imperial regime collapsed. The Allies eventually granted an armistice to a new German government, and at eleventh hour on the 11th of November, the guns officially ceased fire, but only after 11,000 casualties had been sustainedalmost as many as on D-Day. Nicholas Best tells the story in sweeping, cinematic style, revealing that events were far from pre-ordained. From the generals headquarters to the frontline trenches, from the factories to the farms, he reveals the twists and turns that led to the end of the Great... more...
1493by Charles C. Mann
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99From the author of 1491— the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes... more...
Moscow 1941by Rodric Braithwaite
Profile 2010; US$ 15.98Based on huge research and scores of interviews, this book offers an unforgettable and richly illustrated narrative of the military action that took place in Moscow during 1941; telling portraits of Stalin and his generals, some apparatchiks, some great commanders. It also traces the stories of individuals, soldiers, politicians and intellectuals, writers and artists and dancers, workers, schoolchildren and peasants. Click here to visit the author's website. more...