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Eventually the Romans destroyed the fabled city of Carthage. What could never be erased, however, was the brilliant legacy of the man who has been called the world's finest soldier. Magnificent is the word for everything Hannibal did - he moved huge armies against...
This is the story of one man’s war and of the Royal Navy’s escort vessels — trawlers, corvettes and destroyers — that guarded Britain’s ocean life-lines across the Atlantic against the ravaging forays of U-Boats and surface raiders. This highly acclaimed firsthand...
The Roman Way was the author’s second book, providing contrasts between ancient Rome and present-day life. Hamilton describes life as it existed according to ancient Roman poets such as Plautus, Virgil and Juvenal, interprets Roman thought and manners, and compares them...
A fascinating analysis of world history immediately after WWII, including the causes of the War from the post-War perspective. This work will forever change your understanding of how America was dragged into that war. Chapter 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout...
Wedemeyer Reports! is a book written by Albert C. Wedemeyer, a retired U.S. Army general who played a significant role in World War II. As the chief planner for General Marshall, and co-author of the Victory Plan, GeneralWedemeyer had a truly significant hand in shaping...
Hermes -- trickster and culture hero, divine child and patron of stealthy action, master of magic words, seducer and whisperer -- is a vital and complex figure in Greek mythology. Shepherd, craftsman, herald, musician, athlete, merchant -- who is this tricky...
First published in 1987 by the National Defense University (NDU) Press, a government publishing arm, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, publishing vital national security materials like Joint Force Quarterly, books, and monographs for military and government...
Vo Nguyen Giap, Southeast Asia's most successful Communist general, Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of North Vietnam's army, shares with Premier Khrushchev a conviction that the future holds many "just wars of national liberation." This volume stresses the...
Enemy Coast Ahead is an autobiography recounting the dramatic World War II flying career of Wing-Commander Guy Gibson VC, DSO, DFC. It covers his time in RAF Bomber Command from the very earliest days of war in 1939 through to 1943. The notable 1955 film, The Dam...
The Spanish, French, Indians, Mexicans, and Americans fought for supremacy of the Southwest of North America over a period of four centuries. No section of America was discovered, rediscovered or fought over with such bloodshed, frustration and betrayal; the march of...
First published in 1926, this definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers "a Lincoln whom no other man could have given us" (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century...
Delve into the life and legacy of one of Canada's most influential leaders in "Sir John Macdonald" by W. Stewart Wallace. This captivating biography takes readers on a remarkable journey through the political landscape of 19th-century Canada, exploring the life and...
This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibilty,...
Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the...
''In that book my theme was the eternal conflict between One Man Government and the Rich. Napoleon said: the only institution ever devised by men for mastering the Money Power in the State is Monarchy. It is obviously true and is the most practically important of all...
In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing...
First published in 1930, “The Fur Trade in Canada” is a book by Harold Innis that draws sweeping conclusions about the complex and frequently devastating effects of the fur trade on aboriginal peoples; about how furs as staple products induced an enduring economic...
This thrilling story of the Klondike Gold Rush is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is the first to distill the Klondike experience into a single,...
The Wimsey Papers are a series of articles by Dorothy L. Sayers published between November 1939 and January 1940 inThe Spectator. They had the form of letters exchanged by members of the Wimsey Family and other characters familiar to readers from the Lord Peter Wimsey...
Falcons of France -- a novel about flying, World War I, and contemporary moralities. It was written by two American veterans of the 'Escadrille Lafayette', and contains thrilling tales of aerial battle and life during the war. This is a text that will appeal to anyone...
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