FOR THE PEOPLE
Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815
2007
NON-FICTIONBy giving rise to new ideologies that in time transformed the political structure of much of the world, the American and French Revolutions stand as two of the most important political events in globa...
Readers Comp to Military History Pa
2001
NON-FICTIONTHE READER'S COMPANION TO MILITARY HISTORY is the first major reference work on military history to represent a global perspective. More than 150 distinguished military historians, biographers, and jo...
The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
2006
NON-FICTIONThis comprehensive three-volume work on the French Revolution and Napoleon's rule and campaigns covers a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural events and personalities during a time ...
An Advanced History of Great Britain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Edward VII
1912
NON-FICTIONThe Battle 100
2005
NON-FICTIONOffers a historical retrospective on the most important battles of the past three thousand years, describing in detail one hundred key military campaigns, with commentary on the outcome of the conflic...
French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1786-1861
2015
NON-FICTIONIn 1786 the French navy had just emerged from its most successful war of the eighteenth century, and the reputation of its ship design and fighting skills never stood higher. Though the effects of the...
European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802
2015
NON-FICTIONUpon France’s defeat of the vaunted Prussian army at the Battle of Valmy in 1792, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked, “From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the...
European Jewry and the First Crusade
1987
NON-FICTIONAnalyzes the causes of the anti-Jewish violence of the First Crusade. The spiritual revival and rapid growth of the 10th-11th centuries led both to Church reform and the Crusades, an attempt to direct...
Empire in Black and Gold: Shadows of the Apt 1
2021
NON-FICTIONThe city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace and prosperity for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization and sophistication. That peace is about to end. Far from the Lowlands, an ancient emp...
Blitzkrieg: Book 1 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
2018
NON-FICTIONPart of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second World War in one of the most successful military strategies of modern warfare in this accessible, insightful an...
The Killer Angels
1974
FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning historical novel depicting the Battle of Gettysburg from multiple perspectives.
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
2013
NON-FICTIONDeeply researched modern account of the three-day battle that decided the Civil War.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning single-volume history of the Civil War era. The standard work on the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict.
The Civil War: A Narrative
1958
NON-FICTIONFoote's monumental three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, combining scholarly rigor with the storytelling power of a novelist.
The Red Badge of Courage
1855
MILITARY HISTORYThe Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, w...
The War of the Worlds
MILITARY HISTORYThe ultimate science fiction classic: for more than one hundred years, this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive comme...
Homage to Catalonia
1938
MILITARY HISTORY[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spani...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1940
MILITARY HISTORYHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mo...