History books

The secret history of a trio of gamblers who used homemade technology and their own ingenuity to outplay the house,...  Read More >>

This volume is concerned with the public and private lunatics asylums of England in the long nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

This volume is concerned with Lock Hospitals and Magdalen Asylums in England in the nineteenth century. The volume...  Read More >>

The world's most acclaimed classicist on whether and why the Classics still matter  Read More >>

Boots-on-the-ground memoir of fighting in the bloody Arghandab River Valley with 2/508th PIR, 82nd Airborne.  Read More >>

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Explores similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners...  Read More >>

Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces...  Read More >>

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Blending theory and practice, this book outlines the central role that strategic maneuvering and argumentative style...  Read More >>

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Volume 2 is devoted to the preparation by Moscow of hostilities near Kursk in the spring and early summer of 1943...  Read More >>

The CIA's most valuable spy has been compromised. Only an unconventional secret Army unit has any chance of safely...  Read More >>

No combatant nation of the Second World War has been more forgotten than Thailand. Ignored by most histories of...  Read More >>

A study of the last 100 years of conflict suggests that air power dominates warfare. Air power was successfully...  Read More >>

Fifth volume of an encyclopaedic chronicle of the locations and actions of British infantry, cavalry and ordnance...  Read More >>

The Peruvian military aviation, founded in 1919, has - since nearly its earliest days - taken part in the turbulent...  Read More >>

The Second Battle of Ramadi was the battle which British generals in the First World War were trained to fight and...  Read More >>

Explore the entrancing world of the fairies in this gorgeously illustrated collection of traditional folk tales....  Read More >>

The first book to tell the full story of the deep and lasting connection between the two most enduring musical acts...  Read More >>

This second volume follows the Soviet Air Forces in the Baltic into the tense months of early 1941. Mikhail Timin...  Read More >>

This book explores the architectural, archaeological, and historical significance of six castles (Chepstow, Raglan,...  Read More >>

From flying in B-17 bombers over occupied Europe during the Second World War to speeding at low level to hit targets...  Read More >>