Wilson Kraft, a retired history professor, having lived through America's darkest years, has recorded his insider's story. Now, toward the end of his life, battling two disparate allegiances, he tries
Forty-seven essays, each by a specialist in a particular subfield of Civil War history, cover every aspect of the war from strategy, tactics, and battles to logistics, intelligence, supply, and prison
Powerful history through the eyes of a young boyWhen Johnny joins the Confederate Army as a drummer boy, he enters a world full of patriotism and adventure, breathtaking hot-air balloons, cannons and
Placing the personal relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the center of Allied power strategy during World War II, Kimball (history, Rutgers U.) presents a history of the W
New Bedford's Civil War examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 18
This is a book likely to appeal to anyone interested in the history and skills of blacksmithing, students of the US Civil War, historical technology buffs, and presenters at living history events. Be
The World War II era was a pivotal period in Canadian labor history. This book is a wartime history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) which formed in the U.S. in 1935, and by the end o
"Many different factors led to the French invasion of Algeria in June 1830, but the result was the establishment of a French colony in North Africa that would last 132 years. For more than a century,
“(Johnson) is a master of narrative history.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFrom the pages of Paul Johnson’s authoritative A History of the American People comes an intimate and compelling account of
Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on Detroit, Colleen
Advertising at War challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Ac
Advertising at War challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Ac
The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the Br
The previously unpublished memories of a wartime submariner whose exploits included the stalking and sinking of a Japanese submarine. An incredible true story of courage and bravery in the history of
In Wind Rider’s Oath, Bahzell became a wind rider—the first hradani wind rider in history. And, even if Bahzell is the War God’s champion, because the wind riders are the elite of the elite among the
This lively survey of the history of conflict between democracies reveals a remarkable-and tremendously important-finding: fully democratic nations have never made war on other democracies. Furthermor
Following in the path of the first volume (The Hundred Years War; A Wider Focus, 2005), this second volume contains 14 essays that examine how the war's impact on the structure of Europe was broader t
This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl pr
With previously unpublished photographs by an incredibly diverse group of the world's top news photographers, Photojournalists on War presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America's
The Great Industrial War, a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept:industrial war. Moving bey
