129円 The war of the United States with Mexico awakened the military ardor of American citizens, which had been slumbering since the contest with Great Britain in 1812-14. It stirred their imagination with the romance which has ever been connected with the scenes of Spanish conquest, heightened by the ...

128円 It was the misfortune of Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that, with most of the conditions requisite for the formation of national unity, she had no really national institutions. There was an emperor, who looked something like an English king, and a Diet, or General Assembly, w...

3,315円 'A remarkable book . . . It's a powerful testament to the healing balm of gardening and the resilience of the human spirit in the direst of circumstances.' Financial Times 'Not a happy book and yet it's magically heartening. It makes a gardener question his or her values.' The Times 'This extraor...

1,780円 A new approach to ideas about war, from one of the UK's leading strategic thinkers In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. It was dismissed by the British admirals of the day, not on the basis...

1,780円 'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Ge...

450円 "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" As president Lincoln told Congress his war aims at the start of the Civil War, this statement leaps off the le...

2,004円 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE ‘A brilliantly original book’ Financial Times ‘One of the masterpieces of modern historical writing’ Daily Telegraph Paul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might. Kennedy’s...

110円 The year is 1944. The Allies have pushed into Normandy on the massive D-Day landings. However, British intelligence have revealed something shocking that could turn the tide of war in Hitler's favor. This is an account of Sergeant Adam Alistair's part in a five-man team as they are sent in to inv...

453円 The Donner party is the name given to a group of emigrants, including the families of George Donner and his brother Jacob, who became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846-1847. Nearly half of the party died, and some resorted to eating their dead in an effort to surviv...

604円 The spell of Christmas in a tri-cultural land pervades this last of Dorothy Pillsbury's four books. In 35 stories she takes us to the winter ceremonies of New Mexico. We watch with her the ancient Zuni rite of the Shalako gods; we are lit by the glow of farolitos on adobe roofs and feel the crunc...

604円 In spite of the progress of civilization, the duel survived well into the latter part of the twentieth century in the United States. This book, first published in 1929, represents a great resource to understanding the nature of duels in American history, providing an account of the causes that le...

604円 First published in 1960, this book by former newspaperman, author and Louisianan native, Richard Briley III, deals with the untimely demise of Huey Long, aka "The Kingfish," an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana (1928-1932) and as a member of the U.S. Senate from 193...