1939: Countdown to War by Richard OveryPaperback176 Pages2010 A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the...

A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hopeby Tom BrokawHardcover240 Pages20155¾ x 8½ inches From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change—a year spent battling...

A Short History of War by Jeremy BlackPaperback272 PagesNovember 2022 An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future “Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the...

Autumn of Our Discontentby John CuratolaHardcover368 Pages2022 In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime military posture following World War II...

Churchill Warrior: How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest HoursBy: Brian LaveryHardcover448 Pages 2017 On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, issued numerous memos to the...

Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American Historyby Craig L. SymondsPaperback400 Pages From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action...

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s Traci Parker Paperback 328 Pages 2019 Traci Parker explores the role of department stores in the Civil Rights Movement, revealing how Black...

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destructionby Lynne OlsonHardcoverFebruary 2023448 PagesThe remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient...

For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America By: Allan R. Millett and Peter MaslowskiPaperback720 Pages Called "the preeminent survey of American military history" by Russell F. Weigley, America's foremost military...

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945by David KennedyHardcover270 Pages2001 Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the...

History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past by Edward T. LinenthalPaperback295 PagesAugust 1996 From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at...

In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps 1917-1956 Allan R. Millet Paperback 512 pages 1993 This book chronicles the career of the man who helped shape the Marine Corps in the twentieth century by transforming them into a...

Inventing Japan: 1853-1964by Ian BurumaPaperback208 Pages2004 In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has...

Japan's Modern Myths   by Carol GluckPaperback424 Pages1987   Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before...

New Orleans & The World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial AnthologyLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Richard Campanella, Walter Isaacson, Lawrence Powell, Sally Reeves, Nancy DixonHardcover2017 New Orleans celebrates the 300th anniversary of its...

Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement by Leora Auslander & Tara ZahraPaperback348 Pages2018 Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet...

On the Corps: USMC Wisdom from the Pages of Leatherneck, Marines Corps Gazette, and ProceedingsLt. Col. Charles P. Neimeyer USMC (Ret.)Hardcover 280 pages 2008 The purpose of this anthology is to serve as a ready resource of material that defines the...

Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinemaby James Chapman and Nicholas CullPaperback256 PagesJuly 2009Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. With "Projecting Empire", Chapman and Cull have written the first major study...

Quotations of Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt Hardcover32 Pages2010 America's 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the country's top office four times, making him the only president to serve more than two terms. FDR led the...

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty SeiduleHardcover304 Pages2021 "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane...