This book reopens a chapter in Canadian history. The book is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when author Tom Sando was imprisoned in c...

The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades con...

Wilfried Sonnenthal joined the SS Signals Replacement Battalion in Nuremberg in January 1943, and in June 1943, he was transferred to the SS-Karstw...

On 8 November 1639, Willem Leyel leaves Denmark as commander of the ship "Christianshavn". The destination is the Danish possession Tranquebar with...

"Willing Patriots" tells the story of Black Americans who served in the U.S. Army in the First World War. The book provides the reader deeply resea...

The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, ...

Air America was the largest of the CIA's secret airlines. Air America was one of the world's most extraordinary ailines. It was run by the CIA, ope...

Wings of Honor is a compilation of all United States pilots, observers, gunners and mechanics who flew against the enemy in World War I. Covered ar...

Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when ...

What was it like to be involved in the heady days of ‘second wave’ feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...

This is the first thorough and in-depth study to cover all aspects of the winter uniforms issued to and used by the ground-based troops of the Germ...

Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...

"I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here. That is how you stay alive." --Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged demonstrates ho...

Before email, before Instagram and selfies, postcards were mailed across the world. At the turn of the 20th century, travellers to Winnipeg were im...

This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and ninja craze that swept a region of ...

In incorporating Black African soldiers on the European battleground in their war against the Germans in WWI, France needed to change the image of ...

Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and...

Here\s the story of how a handful of young Americans, fighting with improvised equipment, commanded the air against superior enemy forces and won! ...

With The Black Devils offers readers a rare first-hand account of life with an elite group of American and Canadian World War II soldiers known as ...

The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with ...

The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country school...

A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...

This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...

This book explores the ways in which Palestinian female terrorists have injected their narrative into the Arab, American and even Israeli media. Th...

The Women for Victory series provides a thorough and authoritative reference for American servicewomen?s history and uniforms of WWII, and is desig...

The second volume of the Women for Victory series records the history and uniforms of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the first American s...

This volume tells the stories of women who worked legally, in their own names, in early modern Copenhagen. They were to be found on the streets sel...

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as ...

From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand’s nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we...

In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories ...

This broad, interdisciplinary work explores the little recognised contributions of women to the cultural life of the Danish Golden Age. Featuring c...

Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husband’s concubine; sick of her mother-in-law’s endless carping about the money s...

The first earnest attempt to explore the valley of the upper Yellowstone was made in 1859, by Colonel Raynolds, of the Corps of Engineers. His expe...

Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. Wool's colorful and surprisingly e...

Word of God, words of men. The book presents many aspects of the phenomenon of translation and commentary work of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuania...

His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep ...

For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identit...

Between 1892 and 1930, American photographer Edith S. Watson made repeated trips to outport Newfoundland and coastal Labrador, getting to know the ...

Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George...

Preface; Introduction -- The Author; The Text and its Congeners; Lex Castrensis; Historia Compendiosa; The Lost Genealogy; Translations; The Law of...

Asia in the past nurtured great civilisations and cultures, some of which withstood the onslaughts of the mighty West. After suffering from the evi...

This is a unique book for two reasons: it focuses on neuropsychiatric casualties of war, a topic that has traditionally been avoided in the media a...

For the first time in eighty-five years, the famous Sanke postcards of World War I Imperial German Aviators have been reproduced. Clear, large scal...