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“History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so how can we tell good history from bad? In this passionately argued book, Gildea suggests that the more people who really understand what good history entails, the more likely history is to triumph over myth.

The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions. It was a difficult and often desperate conflict fought against a skilled and ruthless enemy that initially saw the British suffer the worst series of defeats ever to befall their armed forces.

A New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of...

A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors—a lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event. “A stunning historical discovery and a heartrending testimony.” —Kai Bird...

The world changed on Sept 11th 2001 and again May 2nd, 2011 but for me, the real transformation unfolded over months of training, deployment, and the long journey home. This war diary is not just a record of events but a reflection of the duality of life in service—a world where chaos meets connection, where exhaustion coexists with resilience, and where longing for home becomes both an anchor and a driving force.

Surviving Hell is a harrowing account of Lieutenant Colonel William Miner, taken prisoner for 39 months after his unit surrendered to the Japanese on the island of Cebu, Philippines, during World War II. Despite losing every friend in his unit and suffering from torture and deprivation that would “warp men’s souls,” Bill Miner professed, “I am lucky. People fell beside me and people were blown apart beside me. Anywhere I went as a prisoner, I tried to be aware of the situation and use it the best I could to survive.”

Den 1. september 1939 angriber Hitler Polen. Landet skal erobres lynhurtigt, før Storbritannien og Frankrig når at komme til hjælp. De massive tyske panserdivisioner buldrer frem, effektivt støttet af Luftwaffe, der smadrer den polske hærs bastioner og ødelægger broer, veje og radiostationer. I foråret 1940 ruller den tyske blitzkrieg igen gennem Europa. På få måneder falder Danmark, Norge, Holland, Belgien og Frankrig. Men da Hitler sender Luftwaffe mod Storbritannien, må den tyske diktator erkende, at briterne er sejere end forventet.

The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching...

In 1914 a war began that destroyed nearly everything in its path: lives, countries, empires, and the world as it was known until that moment. And while destruction could be found almost everywhere around the world in its aftermath, nowhere was more marred than that of the Western Front; the scars of which still haunt us to this day.

En el Madrid de 1936 surge la conmovedora historia del doctor Georges Henny, delegado de Cruz Roja Internacional, uno de los héroes humanitarios que tuvo el valor de enfrentarse a los horrores de una guerra sin cuartel, despiadada y brutal. Alrededor del joven pediatra suizo confluyeron las iniciativas a favor de todas las víctimas de la contienda en una ciudad golpeada por el asedio de las tropas franquistas y por la represión republicana, que tuvo en Paracuellos del Jarama uno de sus capítulos más siniestros.

The true story of one of impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s most famous paintings, and an astonishing exploration of the rise and fall of a prominent French Jewish family from the Belle epoque to World War II. Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a...

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land. Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new first hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists among many others.

La Grande Guerra non ha eroi. I protagonisti non sono re, imperatori, generali. Sono fanti contadini, i nostri nonni. La guerra dei nostri nonni racconta il conflitto '15-'18 sul fronte italiano, alternando storie di uomini e di donne: le storie delle nostre famiglie. Attraverso lettere, diari di guerra, testimonianze, conduce nell'abisso del dolore. Eppure, sia il racconto di una sofferenza che oggi non riusciamo a immaginare, sia le tante storie a lieto fine restituiscono la stessa idea: la Grande Guerra fu la prima sfida dell'Italia unita; e fu vinta.

Tenth Armored Division's epic stories of combat in WWII in Europe, as recalled by Major (Retired) Dean M. Chapman.

What if the stones beneath your feet could speak? What would they tell you? ‘Rocks and Stones: The Untold Stories’ is a poetic and thoughtful journey into the hidden lives of stones, told as if the stones themselves are sharing their stories. From ancient monuments to sacred mountains, from powerful symbols like the Black Stone of the Kaaba and the Rosetta Stone to quiet pebbles resting underfoot, each stone carries deep memories of the world we live in.

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From the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight decades of peace and prosperity in the West that could be upended in an “America First”...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Last Enemy is the story of Richard Hillary, one of Sebastian Faulks' three 'fatal englishmen'. In this extraordinary account, the author details his experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, in which he was shot down, leading to months in hospital as...

Bestselling author of The Arsenal of Democracy and The Accidental President, A. J. Baime returns with the incredible story of the airplane that ended World War II, the B-29 Superfortress, the rise of American airpower, and the man who made it all possible. Of all the feats of American ingenuity...

The ability to remain and travel underwater for an extended period of time has long been a dream for a good portion of mankind, perhaps second only to that of flying. The first “submersible” may have been a kind of glass container made for Alexander the Great so that he could observe undersea life firsthand. Despite this early attempt, fate decreed the idea of traveling beneath the surface of the water would lie fallow for nearly another 2,000 years after this experiment in about 332 B. C. Alexander’s death the next year effectively squashed any further developments.