The well-respected historian Manfried Rauchensteiner analyses the outbreak of World War I, Emperor Franz Joseph’s role in the conflict, and how the...

A nation at war wants nothing less than complete information of her enemy. It is hard for the mind to conceive exactly what "complete information" ...

On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west c...

The book analyses under what conditions was it possible to develop scientific atheism which was by the contemporaries in the Soviet Union and Czech...

This book tells the story of New Zealand's land girls during the Second World War. Drawing on the oral histories of 130 women and the written inter...

The five chapters contained in this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through S...

The University of Cologne has an unusual history: It was founded - for the second time - by the city council in 1919, more than 100 years after its...

The Peak is Hong Kong’s top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...

The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 1945–1989. In the case stud...

The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I two volume set is a prodigious scholarly endeavor, offering for the first time in the English languag...

This lavishly photographed and authoritative book presents the secret history of Soviet subminiature spy cameras during the Cold War. It is a histo...

A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...

A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...

This book chronicles exploits of the 3rd Bomb Squadron of Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault's experimental Chinese-American Composite Wing, in which young...

Take a look at the wild, bold, colorful, and naughty designs that have swelled men's chests throughout necktie history. Follow the development of t...

Michael Palij introduces the English-language reader and students of history to a relatively little-known aspect of the revolutionary upheavals tha...

"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of hi...

"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of hi...

This book deals with the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) that was launched on 29 August 1944 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In the West, the uprising...

The famed World War II vehicle - the German equivalent of the American "Jeep" †is presented here in a superb collection of vintage photographs, a...

The contributions of the volume focus on the First World War from a gender perspective, whereby the complex relationship between the front and the ...

What was successively titled the 4th Bomb Wing, 3rd Bomb Division and finally 3rd Air Division entered combat with the VIII Bomber Command in May 1...

This book presents a detailed tabular review of U.S. carriers and squadrons between the end of Vietnam and the start of the new millennium. Over 20...

Analyses the politico-economic effects of Germany's policy towards Greece leading up to occupation in 1941. Looking in particular at the trade in t...