From Simon Read, author of stirring works of military history, the action-packed story of the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet
Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering wars of empire in Cuba, India's Northwest Frontier, th
Recounts the true events depicted in the movie The Great Escape, during which 76 Allied airmen broke free of the infamous Stalag Luft III POW camp and how a manhunt 20 years later brought to justice m
In March and April of 1944, Gestapo gunmen killed fifty POWs—a brutal act in defiance of international law and the Geneva Convention. This is the true story of the men who hunted them down. The mass b
An excellent, short, contemporary, introduction to anarchism, its ideas, and some of the thornier issues in life ("don't we need the police to catch criminals," "aren't peop
