2,045円 Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” ...

1,516円 Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Year's conversion convinced him that killing was against God's will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer single-handedly dispatched two dozen Germans and captured 13...

1,749円 the highest Commonwealth military decoration for gallantry is the Victoria Cross, and this book examines the history of the award, telling the stories of those New Zealanders (or those with strong New Zealand associations) who have won it. this includes awards made to British soldiers serving in ...

1,888円 Norman Thomas and his brothers' upbringing prepared them for a life of service-but their calls to conscience threatened to tear them apart Conscience is Louisa Thomas's beautifully written account of the remarkable Thomas brothers at the turn of the twentieth century. At a time of trial, each bro...

241円 Cleopatra VII : Queen of Egypt (A Short Biography for Children) Name of seven pharaohs. The most famous is Cleopatra VII, the last Pharaoh of Egypt. She came to power at age 15, married to her brother, Ptolemy XIII, also pharaoh. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinkin...

150円 An adult remembers back to his childhood and the stories his father told him of World War II. In particular, one of them details how his father helped save his plane, crew and passengers in an intense storm off of a Japanese held island in the South Pacific.

2,020円 'Simultaneously frightening and hilarious' - *The Times The Men Who Stare at Goats* **reveals the extraordinary – and completely nutty – national secrets at the core of America's government. Often funny, sometimes chilling and with first-hand access to the leading players, Jon Ronson’s Sunday Tim...

1,205円 First to Last is the true story of a soldier's life through the motorcycles he has owned and the most prominent action events that have occurred on those bikes and during his lifetime. It is a factual, first-hand account of the tale of a biker, a warrior and an incurable romantic. The story ...

334円 Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall - though second cousins - were opposites. Jefferson believed in states' rights - that the colonies that ratified the Constitution did so as sovereign states. He wanted the weakest federal government possible. Marshall knew that a federal government without the p...

2,153円 How Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort. Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) 18 months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could ...

2,852円 Philip II of Macedonia (382–336 BCE), unifier of Greece, author of Greece's first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with a centralized administrative structure in Europe, forger of the first Western national army, first great general of the Greek imperial age, strategic...

2,201円 A story of heroism, friendship, and courage in World War 2ーas seen in the award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific. In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Marine Divisionーalso known as “The Spearhead”ーin preparation for the invasion of the small, Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima... Wh...