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...

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...

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...

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...

The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present by William I. HitchcockPaperbackFebruary 2004560 PagesFrom the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous...

The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950sby William I. HitchcockPaperback672 Pages2019 A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s...

The Pope of Physics Gino SegrèPaperback372 Pages2017 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world’s physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called “the Pope” by his peers, he was regarded as...

The Treaty of  Versailles    By: Michael Neiberg Hardcover136 Pages2017   Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very...

The U.S. Army Cooks' Manual: Rations, Preparation, Recipes, Camp Cooking R. Sheppard Hardcover 270 Pages 2008 An army marches on its stomach—so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army...

We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity By Krewasky Salter Hardcover 160 pages 2019 We Return Fighting explores the experiences of African American soldiers in World War I and their impact on the struggle for civil rights...