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The Oxford History of Modern Europeby T. C. W. Blanning
OUP Oxford 2000; US$ 15.00Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Each chapter portrays both change and continuity, revolutions and stability, and covers the political, economic, social, cultural, and military life of Europe. This book provides a better understanding of modern Europe, how it came to be what it is, and where it maybe going in the future. more...
Sandakanby Lynette Ramsay Silver
Sally Milner Publications 1999; US$ 15.00The story of the Sandakan prisoner of war camp during the closing years of World War II. Of the 2434 servicemen held in the North Borneo camp and its surrounds, only six survived. more...
Origins of the Second World War 1933-1939by Ruth Henig
Routledge 1985; US$ 22.95In this title, Ruth Henig analyzes the reasons as to why World War Two broke out, a very controversail historic topic. She considers the long-term factors that contributed to the war and a number of other key events that took place. more...
Triumph and Tragedyby Winston Churchill
RosettaBooks 2002; US$ 7.99The end of World War II, the crushing of Germany and the devastating bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the entrance into an uneasy and clouded peace as Churchill is dismissed from his office and the Allies embark upon a tragic, misguided and atomic-haunted Cold War. The concluding volume of Churchill's great chronicle of the War which was responsible for his winning the Noble Prize for Literature. 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 $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak -- in Holland and the Ardennes -- Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Divison, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments. They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looking down Utah Beach;... more...
France and the Second World Warby Peter Davies
Routledge 2000; US$ 31.95A concise introduction to a crucial and controversial period of French history. It provides a fresh insight into the events of this era of conflict exploring themes of collaboration, resistance, liberation and the wars legacy. more...
The Secret in Building 26by Colin Burke; Jim Debrosse
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 13.99For the first time, the inside story of the brilliant American engineer who defeated Enigma and the Nazi code-masters Much has been written about the success of the British “Ultra” program in cracking the Germans’ Enigma code early in World War II, but few know what really happened in 1942, when the Germans added a fourth rotor to the machine that created the already challenging naval code and plunged Allied intelligence into darkness. Enter one Joe Desch, an unassuming but brilliant engineer at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, who was given the task of creating a machine to break the new Enigma settings. It was an enterprise that rivaled the Manhattan Project for secrecy and complexity–and nearly... more...
The Guy Liddell Diaries, Vol.IIby Nigel West
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 39.95The daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins makes for fascinating reading. It reveals the thoughts and actions of this key figure in British history. more...
The Cold Warby John Lewis Gaddis
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 13.99The ?dean of Cold War historians? ( The New York Times ) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why ?from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. more...
Dictionary of Warsby George Childs Kohn
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 102.00Dictionary of Wars, Third Edition contains detailed summaries of all notable wars from throughout history, spanning more than 4,000 years. Completely updated and expanded, this volume is an authoritative source on the global conflicts, civil wars, mutinies, punitive expeditions, undeclared wars, rebellions, and revolutions that have occurred throughout the world. This edition contains new and updated entries, new illustrations, and new front and back matter. Facts are presented in a lively and engaging manner, and the scope of the book is truly impressive. Approximately 1,850 entries are extensively cross-referenced to help readers find the information they want. This book deals exclusively and concisely with military information, often specifying... more...









