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Atlas of World History
Oxford's Atlas of World History is the result of years of intensive work by a specialist team of scholars, editors, and cartographers. It presents the story of humanity in its …
Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
Between December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg defending …
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell
Selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino …
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, …
Out of Eden: The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy
In this changing world of what is socially and politically "correct," polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the last thousand years, monogamy - at least in name - has been …
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War II. His fear was shared by many. …
Atlas of the World: Thirtieth Edition
The 30th Anniversary Edition of Oxford's Atlas of the World, the most authoritative atlas on the market. The only world atlas updated annually, Oxford's Atlas of the World is the …
The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardAn Economist Book of the Year The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our …
War Before Civilization
The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare …
Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard …
Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military …
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has …