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Hitler and the Habsburgs
Now in paperback, a stunning work of narrative history revealing how and why Adolf Hitler targeted the children of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, making the Archduke's …
The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend
Following the Normandy invasion of 6 June, 1944, Heersgruppe B under German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel rushed reserves to the newly created bridgehead in order to crush it …
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to …
Between Silk and Cyanide
In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptopgraher of …
The German MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns
The German MG (Maschinengewehr) 34, along with the later-war MG 42, was a recoil-operated, air-cooled machine gun and is considered the world’s first general-purpose machine gun. …
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival
The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the …
The Battle of Oriskany and General Nicholas Herkimer: Revolution in the Mohawk Valley
A gripping account of General Nicholas Herkimer's valiant defeat of British forces in the heart of New York's Mohawk Valley--and a striking account of the days before and after …
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and on the Civil War
The Spring and Autumn & Warring States Periods
"The Spring and Autumn & Warring States Periods, PART TWO" takes you deep into one of the most extraordinary periods in Chinese history, where legendary figures clashed and …
Children of Ash and ELM: A History of the Vikings
A "thrilling" (Wall Street Journal) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As …
U.S. Army Tractor Trucks and SemiTrailers
In the late 1930s, the U.S. Army began a significant overhaul of its vehicle fleet, shaping the logistics backbone of World War II. Affecting this effort were two major schools of …
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich …