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With striking visuals from the Library of Congress' unparalleled archive, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL WAR is an authoritative and engaging ...
This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on ...
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as ...
Commander Alexander Smith RN served his country with fearless resolution for seventeen years on the quarterdeck, encountering many adventures on the high seas - an intrepid ...
The story of Claudius has often been told before. Ancient writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace insiders; Robert Graves ...
For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away ...
World War One was the cause, catalyst, trigger and accelerator of revolutionary change on an unprecedented scale. This is an indispensable new introduction to the ...
The incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and evade enemy capture in WWII On the night ...
A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners ...
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War's most bloody and desperate battles. A ...
Mugabe's dictatorship in Zimbabwe has survived only because of the vicious suppression of all internal dissent. At the same time, the dictator fought in ...
This book provides an account of events during World War II as they unfolded in Malaya, Singapore and elsewhere in the world prior to the ...
No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic ...