The Warsaw Orphan

Kelly Rimmer

2021

"Kelly Rimmer's heart-stopping rendering of the war in Nazi-occupied Poland will captivate readers page by page."--Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours "A surefir...

The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

1972

The Times Concise Atlas of World History

Geoffrey Barraclough

1986

The study of world history - those great movements and conflicts which form man's collective memory - is essential for an appreciation of the world today. Illustrated with over 300 dynamic and colourf...

Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland

Patrice M. Dabrowski

2004

"This book represents the most sophisticated historiographical approach to understanding nation-building. Patrice Dabrowski demonstrates tremendous erudition... making brilliant use of contemporary ne...

Harmsworth History of the World: Eastern Europe to the French Revolution. Western Europe in the Middle Ages

Arthur Mee

1909

The history of Russia from the foundation of the empire to the war with Turkey in 1877-'78, by H. Tyrrell and H.A. Haukeil

Henry Tyrrell (teacher of elocution.)

1879

Agincourt: A New History

Anne Curry

2005

The definitive modern account of Agincourt, drawing on English and French sources to reconstruct the battle and debunk centuries of myth.

Azincourt

Bernard Cornwell

2008

Cornwell's masterful novel follows an English archer through the brutal Agincourt campaign — mud, terror, and the long-bow's devastating power.

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Amin Maalouf

1984

A landmark work that recounts the Crusades entirely from the perspective of the Arab chroniclers who lived through them.

Medieval warfare

Geoffrey Hindley

1971

Medieval Warfare

Tara Steele

2003

Medieval warfare source book

David Nicolle

1995

Brief History of Medieval Warfare

Peter Reid

2008

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

1968

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged

Edward Gibbon

1776

Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely c...

The Age of Fable

Thomas Bulfinch

1800

Drawing on the works of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and other classical authors, as well as an immense trove of stories about the Norse gods and heroes, The Age of Fable offers lively retellings of the myths...

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

1800

The father of the historical novel, Sir Walter Scott invented a literary form that has remained popular for over one hundred and fifty years. Infusing his works with romance, action, and suspense, he ...

Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare

1598

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Crusades

Benjamin Z. Kedar

2008

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom

1971

The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ...