I Used to Know That: History

The Sweethearts

Both before and during the Second World War, the Rowntrees factory was a place of refuge for the women that worked there. It was on

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History of Britain Book IV History of Britain

Povestind povestea istoriei britanice într-o narațiune cronologică simplă, „A History of Britain” acoperă matricea istoriei britanice, inclusiv evenimentele de peste măr...

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Bill of the Century

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically

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Stonehouse

This is the definitive biography of John Stonehouse, Labour cabinet minister and Privy counsellor, spy for the Czech State Security (StB), and convicted fraudster. Stoneh...

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Last Man Out

The author of Praying for Sheetrock retells the fantastic story of how an incredibly lucky group of miners managed to live through the worst mining

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More Noble Than War

By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football has never been shy

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From Eton Manor to the Olympics : More Lea Valley Secrets Revealed

With a wealth of information regarding the Lea Valley's history, this guide provides a special emphasis on the regions past, and forthcoming 2012, Olympic connecti...

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How To Win a Roman Chariot Race

Profesorul de limbi clasice de la Oxford, Jane Hood, propune o incursiune în istoria, cultura, literatura, mitologia și filozofia Greciei antice, Romei și Egiptului. Hoo...

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Showers Brothers Furniture Company

Când familia Showers a sosit în Bloomington, Indiana, calea ferată venise de curând în oraș și o universitate modestă se lupta să supraviețuiască. După ce

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1915 The First World War in Photographs: Setbacks & Failures

The Western Front was in stalemate, with the troops entrenched and little in the way of advance or retreat to counter the thousands of lives

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Murders, Plots and Mysteries

Crime flows through history like a muddied tide, flecked with the red blood of murder.

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A Safe Haven

Pe 14 mai 1948, sub conducerea președintelui Harry S. Truman, Statele Unite au devenit prima națiune care a recunoscut Statul Israel -- la doar câteva

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The 15:17 To Paris

he 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the

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The Value of Worthless Lives

There are many good books on Italian immigration to the United States, including success biographies, field researches and historical investigations. What is lacking howe...

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Thrift

'In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging

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Arena of Ambition

Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in

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Understanding Thomas Jefferson

Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character—famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation ye...

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Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Povestea captivantă din interiorul alegerilor prezidențiale din 2008, scrisă de doi dintre cei mai buni reporteri politici din țară. 'Este una dintre cele mai bune

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1919 A Land Fit for Heroes : Britain at Peace

The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians' dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of

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A Brief History of The British Army

The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken

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A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt

Few victories have been so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V against Charles VI's army at Agincourt on

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Three Days at the Brink : Young Readers' Edition

This young readers' edition from New York Times bestselling author and Fox News anchor Bret Baier dives into the first of the secret World War

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Pacific Futures

The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But

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Tear Gas

The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets More than a hundred years ago, French troops fired the first

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Establishment and Meritocracy

Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to

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Plowed Under

During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order

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Facts, Legends & Mysteries: Pyramids of Giza

Piramidele din Giza sunt singura din cele Șapte Minuni ale Lumii care a rezistat tipului. Sfidând secolele, aceste monumente funerare gigantice construite cu mai mult

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Grant's Final Victory

Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and

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Deepfakes

Everything you need to know about 'deep fake' image manipulation and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history. In a

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Liberty and Conscience

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their

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Losing Our Democracy

Argues that in a perpetual quest for more money and power, big businesses, the far and religious right, and Bush & Co. are assaulting the

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Dead Men Risen

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in

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Women of Westminster

In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the

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After Vietnam

Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After

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Reader's Digest and The Royals : A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family

The Reader’s Digest Magazine has a long and close association with the Royal Family. This book, reproduced from the magazine archives, features the best of

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Telling Tales

Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for the popular biographies of her extraordinary relatives, including Jennie Churchill (Winston's mother) and sculptor Clare Sheridan, ...

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Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation

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A Higher Form of Killing

Between April 22 and May 31, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but until then it had

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They Take Our Jobs!

Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations. Aviva...

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Doorway to Hell: Disaster in Somalia

Spring, 1993: Most of Somalia outside of Mogadishu was secured. Then something went wrong... It started as a mission of mercy-to feed the hungry, cure

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The Empire of Necessity

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Aisne 1914

The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of

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Lusitania : The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including

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MAFIA BROTHERHOODS

MAFIA BROTHERHOODS (previously published as BLOOD BROTHERHOODS) is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international bestseller C...

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Conservatism

Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the

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Calling All Cars

Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this

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From here to there

This collection of unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist-historian Staughton Lynd blends themes that encourage the rejection of capitalist imp...

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On This Day

Delve into a wealth of famous events, significant sites and momentous births and deaths. Choose a day of the year and discover the fascinating array

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Great Britain : Let's Get Quizzical

A fun collection of puzzles, quiz questions, mazes, spot-the-differences, and more, all with a British theme Get ready for a brain-teasing trip through the best

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The American South in a Global World

These snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being

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The Emperor's Shadow

After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years

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New Harmony then and now

Intellectuals as well as artisans are drawn to this place of science and spirit.

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Great Upheaval

It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast

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Dangerous convictions

'The debt-ceiling debacle of 2011 was clear evidence of the dangerous polarization of American politics. Heedless of the warnings of economists, a majority of Republicans...

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The Reproach of Hunger

Based on meticulous research and on-the-ground reporting, an expert in the field explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as

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Love and Deception

Love and Deception is the extraordinary story of Eleanor, an able, cultured American woman living in the espionage hot spot of 1950s Beirut and -

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The Three Trillion Dollar War

Reveals massive expenses associated with the Iraq War in a cautionary account that evaluates the war's long-term costs, both financial and human, as well as

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Warrior and the Prophet

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky shooting

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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has unlimited versatility, and an

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War and Liberty: An American Dilemma

An analysis of the challenges of preserving civil liberties in wartime by the national award-winning author of Perilous Times provides in-depth coverage of how constituti...

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