The battleships of the Kongō class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classif...

Brown's remarkably adventurous life in Canada began in BC in 1862 during the Cariboo gold rush. He later became a BC policeman, Pony Express rider,...

The first book to offer not only detailed examples and history, but step-by-step instruction on the legendary metalworking traditions of Korea. The...

This book describes and shows in over 1000 color images the history, uniforms, headgear, insignia, and equipment of the German Kriegsmarine betwe...

En samling af 20 artikler, essays og kritiske studier om Danmark i 1600-tallet. I første del belyses sider af periodens generelle sociale og retlig...

This book is the first comprehensive and easy to use reference since World War II covering prominent German wartime plastics manufacturers and prod...

This publication describes the gender roles of Danish women and their legal place in the unusual system of practice that existed in the late Middle...

A collection of articles dealing with the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages. The book was published in celebration of Professor Birge...

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to exami...

This volume contains eighteen contributions to the increasingly detailed discussion about neolithic and bronze-age Europe. It touches on the arriva...

Foreign language competences are vital not only for the individual European citizen, but in a more encompassing perspective, for mobility, socio-ec...

Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders -- nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward ...

Last Hope is the story of the often heroic by governments to provide their aerial warriors with the tools to evade capture when forced down in enem...

The incredible, moving story of Wiremu Maopo, the last of his line in a large South Island family, who joined the second Maori Contingent and went ...

This book offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1...

This is the first major work in the English language devoted entirely to the uniforms, insignia, and history of the female auxiliaries that served ...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over forty years, using resources that span the globe. This latest book represents h...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over forty years, using resources that span the globe. This latest book represents h...

This book is the first detailed and comprehensive account of the Kharkov counteroffensive, the operations of the SS divisions and the supporting ac...

This book tells the story of Rose Zwi's forebears who were Lithuanian Jews caught up in the sweeping history of the first half of the century in Eu...

In the last decades, many countries in Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy. Truth commissions were an essential ins...

Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.

Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.

Roughly 40,000 Latvians served in the Waffen-SS from 1943 to the end of war in the 15. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (lettische Nr.1) and 19. Wa...

With insightful readings of his source material -- which includes Norse sagas, Eddic literature and church homilies -- Arnved Nedkvitne sheds light...

The New Zealand Division's capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy was its last and most successful action in the First World War. Breaking throug...

Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of "place", exploring the history and geography but most centrally wa...

Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures on the French Revolution is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter...

The University of Alberta Libraries houses one of the most outstanding collections of Austrian, Habsburg and Central European materials in North Am...

"[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, ...

"[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, ...

This book presents extraordinary, little-known tales of the infamous bandits and highwaymen who plied their trade in early California.