History books

(Re)Centring the Weimar Republic tells the story of centrist politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures who strived...  Read More >>

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This exquisitely produced volume with a silk cover, colored edges, Swiss and Japanese tube binding, and ribbon ties...  Read More >>

Nursing Aids at War: The Australian Army Medical Women's Service in the Second World War explores the chronological...  Read More >>

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During the Cold War, humanitarianism became the focus of intense debates among intellectuals, politicians, and diplomats...  Read More >>

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Some things I' ve seen I can never share.' From a TV journalist on the Pacific frontline...  Read More >>

Throughout the southeastern United States we find waterways ripe with colonial-era wilderness and history that are...  Read More >>

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It's 1914. Fay can shoot a rabbit and make a mean nettle stew. She understands Morse code and the semaphoric alphabet....  Read More >>

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One spring day in the 1980s, my family and I woke up to the sight of bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli policemen,...  Read More >>

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How did an Arab dish become an Israeli culinary passion? Less than a century ago, hummus and other Palestinian staples...  Read More >>

The first three First Ladies were born decades long before the United States became ""states"". As mature women,...  Read More >>

In mid 1941, David Lloyd Owen, aged 24, joined the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) as a young patrol commander. He...  Read More >>

**Battle Group ""Lohse""** - Oberleutnant Heinrich Lohse's memoirs detail his time as a training officer at the...  Read More >>

As Hitler’s empire crumbled, the Eastern Front became a crucible of destruction—this is the definitive account of...  Read More >>

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous,...  Read More >>

Come away to an enchanted island where the nuns of Adytum Abbey have made their idyllic home . . . until a band...  Read More >>

This richly illustrated book presents the life and artwork of an Aboriginal artist, Peter Marralwanga, a pivotal...  Read More >>

Global health experts are optimistic that the end of AIDS is within reach. Yet while programs to combat HIV/AIDS...  Read More >>

This book traces the political genealogy of railways from their introduction in the heyday of railway imperialism...  Read More >>

Japan’s prime minister and top military general during WWII, Hideki Tojo is today associated above all with the...  Read More >>