Historia ja arkeologia

In Vanishing Point, award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie, and an eclectic group of enthusiasts …

Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth's atmosphere, the U-2's extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of …

When war was declared in August 1914, it not only changed the lives of the soldiers who fought, but also the lives of their families, their neighbourhood and, ultimately, the whole …

A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the fascinating journey through which humanity has uncovered, understood, and …

A pictorial history of the legendary Lockheed spy plane, written by one of its pilots and "e;filled to the brim with information and revelation"e; (Seattle Post …

From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. indeed, much has remained hidden until now.In The Cold War, David Miller discloses not only the vast scope of the …

This book traces the evolution of Chilean political and legal institutions by looking at the process of democratization. As well as explaining the strengths and weaknesses of the …

Due to their symbolic and iconographic meanings, expressions of 'collective memory' constitute the mental topography of a society and make a powerful contribution to its cultural, …

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars …

This volume is the first of two containing the history of all the places in Waltham hundred and some of those in Becontree hundred. This region, most of which is now in Greater …