Wealth of an Empire tells the dramatic true story of a top-secret mission that changed the course of World War II: Great Britain’s shipment of virtually its entire treasury across the treacherous wate
Ever thought about capturing a queen, amassing real estate gold, or striking down a zombie or two? For centuries, games have stimulated the imagination. They have divided, and they have united. They h
Meticulously researched and thoroughly entertaining, The NFL, Year One is a riveting account of one of the most important and compelling seasons in NFL history. Any fan will surely enjoy Schultz's rev
Officiating a professional boxing match can be a thankless job. When a match goes well, no one focuses on the referee. But when a controversy arises, everyone remembers the man who made the call. "Thi
That American forces should torture prisoners in their war” on terror is disturbing, but more shocking still is that the highest officials of the Bush-Cheney administration planned, authorized, encour
Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler served in two armies, playing a major role in the development of Confederate cavalry in the Civil War's western theater, and, more than thirty years afterwards, commanded troo
The concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minuteman. The fact that he may have had military training
These are the compelling letters of Karl Fuchs, an ordinary German soldier who was completely convinced of the righteousness of his cause and who wrote them free of the recriminations and hindsight ar
This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World
This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World
There was a time when Wyoming and other Rocky Mountain and Midwest states were as likely to elect a liberal Democrat to Congress as a conservative Republican. Gale McGee (1915–92) was elected to
If you’ve ever seen an episode of Law and Order, you can probably recite your Miranda rights by heart. But you likely don’t know that these rights had their roots in the case of a young Ch
During the Second World War, a b-17 tailgunner had a one-in-four chance of survival during his standard twenty-five-mission tour.Valor, Guts, and Luck is the story of Staff Sergeant Lowell "S
On July 22, 2011, a bomb went off outside government buildings in Oslo, Norway, resulting in the death of eight people. But what followed afterward was even more traumatic--a killer dressed as a polic
Effective strategic thinking requires a clear understanding of one s external environment. Each organization has a unique environment, but as Ross Harrison explains in "Strategic Thinking in 3D," any
Why are Americans obsessed with the home run in sports, business, and even life?What made the steroid era inevitable? Revisiting the great home run seasons of BabeRuth through that of Barry Bonds, "Al
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Hawaii and Australia, Kan (national security, US Army War College, Pennsylvania) worked/volunteered in orphanages in Tijuana and Tecate and in bilingual high school cla
More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island’s gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the Guardian of the Western Gate,” the detention cente
Does America’s pro-Israel lobby,” including the legendary American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), have as much power as is commonly believed? Does it have an unbreakable stranglehold on Amer
When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in March 1933, he initially devoted most of his attention to finding a solution to the Great Depression. But the pull of war and the results of FDR’s foreig
Han-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate right to advance Chinese interests at the expense of other countr
Colonel Frank Wolford, the acclaimed Civil War colonel of the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, is remembered today primarily for his unenviable reputation.?Despite his stellar service record and wide
Responding to the question, posed in the scientific journal Nature, of whether scientists should study race and IQ, Hilliard (history, U. of North Texas) wittily responds by asking whether science sho
Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the
For thousands of years pirates, privateers, and seafaring raiders have terrorized the ocean voyager and coastal inhabitant, plundering ship and shore with impunity. From the victim's point of view, th
As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L. Irey accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t and Eliot Ness couldn’t. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he h
For naval historians and general readers, Maxton presents the diary of sailor James Morrison, who was part of the mutiny on the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Bounty in 1787, on its way to Tahiti. Written dur
While many people are familiar with the U.S. Marshals Service’s reputation from frontier days, when legendary lawmen such as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson enforced the Wild West, the agency’s modern ex
War stories are mostly innocent fables and understood as such by both the teller and the hearer. However, they have long been used for political and national purposes, and those about the war in Vietn
