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Soldiers of the Pen
From 1942 to 1945, a small, influential group of media figures willingly volunteered their services to form the Writers' War Board (WWB), accepting requests from government …
Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny
Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny examines authoritarian rule, revealing how tyrants sustain power through a mix of comfort, terror, love, and fear, often convincing their …
How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World
World-wide maritime trade has been the essential driver of wealth-creation, economic progress and global human contact. Trade and exchange of ideas have been at the heart of …
Sheffield in The Great War
This fascinating new book is devoted to an almost unknown period in the history of Sheffield. It sets the city's people and events against a background of key national developments …
Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army
The Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before …
The Second Baron's War
For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the …
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
This book demonstrates the importance of Far Eastern trade to the Roman economy and Rome's place in the ancient world economy all along the Silk Road Routes.The Roman Empire and …
The Gentleman Usher
George Dempster was a giant of a man who became one of the best-known and most deservedly popular Scotsman of his day.He served for thirty years as an MP in Westminster and was …
Hellenistic and Roman Naval Wars, 336 BC-31 BC
The period covered in this book, is well known for its epic battles and grand campaigns of territorial conquest, but Hellenistic monarchies, Carthaginians and the rapacious Roman …
Hitler’s Defeat on the Eastern Front
Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions, the book provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the Second World War. …
Big Gun Battles
This naval history of WWII explores the advancing technology and tactics of battleships through a fascinating survey of ship-to-ship duels. While many naval battles of the Second …
American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, Meuse-Argonne
Any visitor to the site of the bloodiest battle in the history of the United States will be drawn to Montfaucon, for it is here that General Pershing, the Commander in Chief, …