The Toilers of the Sea. a Novel. with Two Engravings from Original Pictures by Gustave Dore.

Yellow Clover

Castro

The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international...

Mexico & the Spanish Civil War

Based on first-hand diplomatic, political and journalistic sources, most unpublished, Mexico and the Spanish Civil War investigates the backing of the Second Republic by Mexico during the Spanish Civi...

Blood Brothers

Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction The little-known but uniquely American story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West-Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitti...

Custer's Trials

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFrom the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of...

Band of Brothers E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne...

The Rise of Rome

A gripping account of the ascent of Rome - from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's greatest empire.'An elegant, swift and faultless introduction to the subject' The Spectator Starting wit...

Year of Glory

No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the cavalier mystique as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the h...

Het rad van Fortuyn

Een uitvoerig en biografisch relaas over de Nederlandse immigratie- en integratiepolitiek van de afgelopen decennia. Het boek gaat diep in op de fenomenen Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders en Hans Janmaat. M...

Political Freud

In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of political Freudian...

The Pioneers

''Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a governm...

Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States

In the past two decades, changes in the Mexican government's policies toward the 30 million Mexican migrants living in the US highlight the importance of the Mexican diaspora in both countries given i...

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability t...

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simulta...

De grote revoluties

Onze Europese waarden en normen zijn bevochten op bepaalde plaatsen door bepaalde mensen. Stuk voor stuk zijn ze verbonden aan een historische gebeurtenis, bijvoorbeeld ons recht om in vrede op te gro...

The Senior Generals of the U.S Army & Army Air Forces, 1900-1945

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “The Senior Generals of the U.S. Army & Army Air Forces, 1900 - 1945”...

De Amerikaanse ambassade in Den Haag

Geen wandelaar kan het over het hoofd zien: het grote gebouw van gewapend beton aan het Haagse Lange Voorhout, de Amerikaanse ambassade, die in 2017 zal verhuizen. Wat speelde zich achter die strenge...

History Of Argentina In The Twentieth Century

A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the gen...

Oorlogdossiers 4 - Zesdaagse Oorlog, juni 1967

Weinig oorlogen duurden zo kort en hadden zo'n langdurig effect op de wereldpolitiek als de Zesdaagse Oorlog van 5-10 juni 1967. De grote militaire overwinning van de jonge staat Israël, behaald binne...