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- This is the eighth book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one Southern family. Three Brannon brothers return home in the lull in the fighting, bu...
- Shiloh is the second book in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. The Brannon son, Cory, is working as a riverboat crewman when he sees Unio...
- General U.S. Grant and General Sherman are caught off guard by the entire Confederate Army
- In this panorama, subtitled The 1930s in America, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monolith...
- John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, showing each of the title's six armies in a battle sequence testing them to the utmost..
- Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of the six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. Oren spotlights all the participants--Arab, Israeli, Soviet,...
- The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling. Henry's wives emerge not simply as appendages to their husband, but as intriguing individuals.
- The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages...
- Passion and property in Manhatten.
- The heroic true stroy of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy.
- On November 23, 1942, German U-boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond, and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes. The sole survivor was a second steward named Poon Lim who, with no knowledge o...
- The Somme is an incredible documentary detailing the exact events and conditions endured by the Allied forces, an absolutely outstanding piece.
- Helen Colijn recounts her wartime experiences in a Japanese prison camp for women and children in Southeast Asia and how these prisoners of war used music to respond to their dire circumstances. Th...
- In this best-seller, Chalmers Johnson explores the new militarism that is transforming America and compelling its people to pick up the burden of empire.
- Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939), an educated and well-known Sioux, saw both sides of the great divide between Indians and whites, and he wrote eleven books attempting to reconcile the two cultures. This book is his illumination of Indian spiritual beliefs and practices. A convert to...
- South Africa has become the world’s symbol of racism. From the moment the Dutch colonists set foot on the Cape in 1652, this nation has steered a straight course toward apartheid; civil unrest has resulted. These tapes explore the economic and social forces that have brought South Africa into...
- On April 25th, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain. Less than seven months later, a victorious America claimed the former Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands. To the American diplomat John Hay, the Spanish-American War was “a splendid little war.” It...
- The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, a society of warrior-heroes who exemplified the heroic virtues of self-sacrifice, community endeavor, and achievement against all odds. Paul Cartledge engagingly examines the rise and fall of this singular society.
- One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan—one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents.
- An amazing insight into the life of one of histories greatest villains...
- If questioning certainties is an art, John Kasich has mastered it in his stand for something with eloquence, passion, and sincerity
- Stick It! Rocking Road Stories told by legendary classic rock drummer Corky Laing...
- Narrated newspaper coverage from the time.
- Learn about the Pilgrims, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812 in this educational full-cast presentation.
- The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones.
- Ancient and medieval awareness of electrical effects included lightning, electric fish, St. Elmo’s fire, the amber effect, and (esp. in early China) the lodestone (magnet). Plutarch explained the electric effect in terms of air displacement. The following chart shows a timeline of topics...
- Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India. A companion to the major six-part BBC TV series.
- Charles Coffin’s The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, is not America’s story alone. It belongs to all those who are enjoying freedom and liberty in any part of the world. As we look at that which preceded our nation’s history and led to its founding, we will begin to have an idea...
- Farah is living proof that not only can the human heart endure, it can also thrive. The Story of My Life is our new great American memoir.
- Clara Barton was one of those women of the nineteenth century who was determined to make the world a better place. She was determined to help the unfortunate victims of wars and disasters. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross, which today stands as a living memorial to the lifelong...
- In a lucid, perceptive analysis of the Renaissance, Hudson explores the major forces behind this transition from the medieval to the modern world. He examines voyages of discovery, inventions, science, art, literature, and intellectual upheavals, throughout which runs a thread of continuity:...
- 1972. The Munich Olympics. Members of the Palestinian group Black September murder eleven Israeli athletes. Prime Minister Golda Meir vows to track down those responsible. Thus begins the Israeli r...
- An important look at where America is today and that the future of America will get brighter.
- While the Pilgrims were struggling to survive in the New World, work began on one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal, built by Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife
- Still hated and revered a quarter century after his death, we hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards, and punishes, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs.
- Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing.
- The End of the First National Welfare System. In less than fifty months, Henry VIII and his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, swept away the monasteries...
- CARDINAL WOLSEY... The Last Great Medieval Minister...‘Built Hampton Court, didn`t he?’...
- Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, is the only professional soldier in English history to have served also as Prime Minister...
- The American War of Independence. A triumph or a disaster? A masterpiece or a mess? Ask an American, and you will get one answer; ask an Englishman, and you will get another.
- This series sets out to show what the English thought about losing their American colonies (not much), how they collected an empire (and lost it), how they became "top nation" (and then slipped).
- Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how terrorist organizations are formed by opportunistic leaders who recruit the disenfranchised.
- The United States Constitution established both a strong central power and protected states’ rights. But to say that something is of two parts is not to say that the parts are equal. Advocates of state sovereignty believed the Constitution created an executive power that was so strong it might...
- The valiant efforts of the Greek warriors against huge onrushing Persian army at the narrow pass at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. changed the way future generations would think about combat, courage, and death. Cartledge shows how the repercussions of this history-altering moment affect our culture...
- Stonewall Jackson was a military genius at once peculiar and perfect, a fearless soldier in battle but a God-fearing man who hesitated to kill on Sunday. He broke the rules of war to win, and yet his tactics are studied in military academies the world over. Burke Davis brings the color, vivid...
- Evans tells the epic story of the men and women who made America over two centuries.
- Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima. There are many notable events, from the Black Death, and Great Fire of London, to the American Civil War.
- There is a love affair, a duel, and a climactic courtroom scene, just as in Puddnhead Wilson, but in this book it's all for laughs.
- At the outset of the Vietnam War an experimental unit was created; Tiger Force. This material is an account of how badly that experiment went wrong...
- In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly.
- Titanic is a unique record of one of the most traumatic events in maritime history. Not only does Colonel Gracie describe his own experience on that fateful night but the stories of as many other survivors as he could track down. He also attended a court hearing to obtain the official record....
- Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose—one of the country's most influential historians—confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs.
- To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without. It is the story of mankind's most wondrous technological achievement; and it is an account of the mystery of creativity.
- Hilarious, irreverent and mouthwatering, TOAST captures thirty years of British cooking and the recipes that we have grown up with since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in chic.
- 'A gut-wrenching memoir that still has you gasping with laughter. A hell of a book'
- The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history.
- From the millions of men and women whose struggles and successes have made freedom possible, Jim Powell has chosen a few talented, courageous individuals and by weaving together their moving life stories, tells the saga of liberty as a whole.
- Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
- Tulia, in Blakeslee's rich and deeply satisfying telling resembles nothing so much as a modern-day To Kill a Mockingbird, or would, that is, if the novel were a true story..
- At Little Round Top, Joshua Chamberlain and the Twentieth Maine performed one of the miracles of the Civil War. Outnumbered, with ammunition gone, they charged the Confederate line and took four hundred prisoners.
- This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political conflicts in 17th Century England which led to the writing of Two Treatises of Government. The famous Second Treatise - which contains Locke’s central ideas on rights, government, and revolution-is...
- The true story of Sue, the greatest Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered.
- In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River.
- In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies.
- FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich had a plum assignment after years of chasing mobsters, drug dealers, and white-collar criminals—performing background checks on White House appointees. What he discovered in the first months of the Clinton administration left him troubled, alarmed, and finally...
- They adore her in Manhattan, worship her in Hollywood, and idolize her in the liberal media. But those of us in what Hillary described as a “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” have been keeping a file on her. If you’re one of us, this book will give you all the ammunition to help end Hillary’s White...
- Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life. She takes us to schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries and records the events of the reign of Victoria...
- After WWII, Korea was divided in half at the 38th parallel. To the north were the Communists; to the south were the United Nations peacekeeping forces. In June 1950, North Korean soldiers backed by..
- A detailed history behind the origins of the City of Virginia highlighting the roots of the area and other influences throughout the years...
- Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
- The United States emerged from the American Revolution still entangled in old world politics. In particular, America faced all the trade restrictions of the British Navigation Acts. The result: in 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain, and proceeded to invade Canada, one of...
- New Republic senior editor Lawrence F. Kaplan and FOX News political analyst William Kristol look back at how a sadistic dictator was allowed to acquire so much power on the world stage, but they also offer a road map for a more hopeful future.
- Unforgettable memoires from soldiers, citizens and historians. Includes tales of bravery, courage, sadness and reflection.
- Half the world is at war, and with the other half about to join in, a thousand U.S. Marines stand sentinel over the last days of an uneasy truce with the Imperial Japanese Army in chaotic North China.
- The West, says author Tony Blankley, is down to its last chance. Within our lifetimes, Europe could become Eurabia, a continent overwhelmed by militant Islam that poses a greater threat to the United States than Nazi Germany did. In The West’s Last Chance, Blankley shows how that could happen...
- A blueprint to preserve and restore our country to its original intent.
- Lee Iacocca does not mince words, and in where have all the leaders gone? he offers his no-nonsense, straight-up assessments of the American politicians most likely to run for president in 2008.
- In 1716, Cornish cabin boy Thomas Pellow and fifty-two comrades were captured by Barbary corsairs. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on Christendom.
- How was it that Lionel Lukin, living miles from the sea, came to develop the Lifeboat?
- Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have remained unexplored until recently ...
- William Hague’s biography is comparable to Roy Jenkins’s recent bestselling life of Churchill – an eminent politician writing an outstanding Prime Ministerial life.
- Sir Winston Churchill’s greatest speeches digitally remastered, selected and introduced by his grandson Winston S. Churchill...
- Through eleven essays, Kirk addresses one question: “Is the American republic descending into decadence, or are the American people entering upon a renewal of belief and hope?” In his range of subjects, including “The American Mission,” “The Illusion of Human Rights,” “Prospects for American...
- In 1862, Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes took over the new warship the Alabama, and became the most hated and feared man along the Union coast, as well as a Confederate legend. Here is the tale of Captain Semmes’s remarkable wartime exploits, told with a vivid sense of the excitement and...
- An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature for many generations to come...
- Based on exhaustive research and astonishing new evidence, Young Stalin is a brilliant prehistory of the USSR from the perspective of those who would bring it into being.
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