History books

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights in...  Read More >>

Readers of Ulysses S. Grant: A Photographic History travel alongside Grant through the Civil War and his two terms...  Read More >>

A short history of our line of the Sperry family as researched and remembered by Greta Daigle, 2024 My paternal...  Read More >>

19th century wing suits, bank security sentinel towers and a machine for facilitating childbirth through centrifugal...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: Society for promoting Christian...  Read More >>

is it possible to rediscover the ancient spiritual wisdom of the ancient masters to bring control in the events...  Read More >>

The USA and The World 2025–2026 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and...  Read More >>

In der Erwartung Erich Honeckers sollten die 750-Jahrfeier der Gründung Berlins und sein offizieller Besuch in Bonn...  Read More >>

What if the most important year before global war was not 1939, but the forgotten twelve months just before it?...  Read More >>

Most histories still tell the story of Asia's war as if it suddenly erupted over Hawaii in 1941. Long before that...  Read More >>

How does a state that survived Verdun and the Somme fall in a matter of weeks? Why did Europe place such faith in...  Read More >>

Most people know the image of leaders smiling for cameras after a hurried conference, promising that a signed paper...  Read More >>

Why did so many leaders insist the world wanted peace while factories quietly retooled for tanks, bombers and submarines?...  Read More >>

Before the German invasion began, another war was already raging across the Soviet Union. Villages emptied by collectivisation,...  Read More >>

The invasion of Poland in 1939 is often reduced to a slogan about lightning war. This book slows events down, showing...  Read More >>

L'ouvrage offre un aperçu des circonstances de la naissance, de la transformation et de l'extension de la ville...  Read More >>

This memoir is from Civil War and Reconstruction Mississippi. It covers pre-war slavery, the siege of Vicksburg,...  Read More >>

It was my honor to record these events, that history repeats itself. Let us remember every soldier, let everyone...  Read More >>

A clear and compelling guide to the French Revolution, tracing the forces that toppled monarchy, unleashed terror,...  Read More >>

For nearly a century, France operated a penal colony so feared its name became legend: Devil's Island. Across...  Read More >>

For more than half a century, historians, theologians, and moral philosophers have wrestled with one of the most...  Read More >>

In the year 1859, Myra Moore was 21 years old. With no training, and a long walk (in a long skirt) from home to...  Read More >>

In the 1800s and early 1900s, tens of thousands of Europeans journeyed to Africa to steal African wealth and force...  Read More >>

John Danielski is a Vietnam War veteran and former United States Marine who served from 1968 to 1970. He received...  Read More >>