Posted:2012-05-07 | Category:History
Publication Date: March 6, 2012
Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster's life, and hi...
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Posted:2012-04-28 | Category:History
Publication Date: December 6, 2011
In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, eyes in America were focused on the war in Europe or distracted by the elevated mood sweeping the country in the final days of the Great Depression. But when planes dr...
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Posted:2012-03-26 | Category:History
Publication Date: November 1, 2011
From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance-and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible.
The ri...
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Posted:2012-03-06 | Category:History
Publication Date: September 6, 2011
A sweeping historical epic and a radical new interpretation of Vasco da Gama’s groundbreaking voyages, seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam
In 1498 a young captain sailed from...
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Posted:2012-03-06 | Category:History
Publication Date: April 4, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0262026449 | ISBN-13: 978-0262026444 | Edition: First Edition
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement....
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Posted:2012-02-15 | Category:History
Publication Date: April 2008
In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the story of his life, calling it "Memorys of the Past." One hundred and twenty years later, in the early...
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Posted:2012-02-09 | Category:History
Publication Date: May 6, 2003
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat...
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Posted:2012-01-13 | Category:History
Publication Date: September 12, 2006
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he ju...
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Posted:2011-12-12 | Category:History
This work examines whether "centralized control and decentralized execution" is a valid doctrinal tenet, given the technological advances in the information age. Fascinating scenarios from recent operations, set in the context of a "complex air opera...
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Posted:2011-12-09 | Category:History
On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibeta...
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