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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
2004
NON-FICTIONRevisionist biography of Genghis Khan arguing that the Mongol conquests, far from being purely destructive, created the first global trading network and spread technological innovation across Eurasia.
The Last King of America
2021
MEMOIRFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his...
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
2010
NON-FICTIONPrize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts, Wolfson H...
From the Stars Above
2018
FICTIONFor a hundred years they have never forgiven, never forgotten. Now, the war between the Duffy and Macintosh dynasties will be brought to its stunning conclusion. Private Patrick Duffy was forced to fl...
British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm
2000
NON-FICTIONIn this meticulously researched book, Azar Gat overturns recent historiographical trends in the study of British and German armor developments between the two world wars. He dispels some of the seriou...
Above the Lines
1993
NON-FICTIONThis work contains the biographies of the aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps. As well as covering decorations and post-war careers, it also investigates the cl...
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...
Tao te Ching
1842
MILITARY HISTORY"Within ancient Chinese, a sole character possesses a broad, and sometimes contradictory, range of meanings. Moreover, the Tao Te Ching is rife with terms and expressions that have no exact counterpar...
Catch-22
1961
MILITARY HISTORY*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is t...
Ἰλιάς
1505
MILITARY HISTORYThis long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, f...