We were one

shoulder to shoulder with the Marines who took Fallujah

Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody streets, they came face-to-face ...

The end of money

counterfeiters, preachers, techies, dreamers - and the coming cashless society

The age of paper money and metal coins is coming to a close. "The End of Money" shines the spotlight on this revolution - and the people, technologies, and trends that are powering it. "The End of Money" is the story of hard currency - its history ...

An unlikely prince

the life and times of Machiavelli

Acclaimed scholar Niccolo Capponi - a direct descendant of Machiavelli - analyses the famous political theorist in the context of his own times, revealing the many sides of the man behind the political genius and explaining his inability to capitalise on his own theories. In his compelling ...

Afghanistan

a military history from Alexander the great to the war against the Taliban

This is a revised up-to-date edition of the only complete military history of Afghanistan containing the most recent information about Taliban resurgence. For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes ...

A special mission

Hitler's secret plot to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII

This is the shocking and incredible story behind Hitler's plan to occupy the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII - and the surprising result of its failure.In September 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ousting of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome and ordered ...

A special mission

Hitler's secret plot to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII

It is September 1943, with World War II raging, and Adolf Hitler is furious that his ally and friend Benito Mussolini has been toppled from power in Italy. He sends German troops into Rome and outlines "a special mission" to SS General Karl Wolff. The ...

The end of the old order

Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805

From a leading scholar of history and military policy, a monumental account and brilliant new analysis of the Napoleonic era in Europe and the revealing interaction of continental politics and war shaping our modern world. Perhaps no person in history has dominated his or her ...

Alexander

the conqueror: the epic story of the warrior king

Thermopylae

the battle for the West

"A gripping story." -- Economist . An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)--a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B ...

Hannibal

a history of the art of war among the carthaginians and romans down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 b.c. with a detailed account of the Second Punic War

Hannibal is often called the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and a full baggage train. Theodore Dodge retraced ...

The Mongols

a history

The Mongols were the superpower of their day, erupting out of Central Asia in 1206 to conquer an empire stretching from Poland to Korea. Their arrival in the Middle East upset the very tenuous balance between Christendom and Islam, sparking a long-simmering rivalry that has ...

Battle for Korea

a history of the korean conflict

Fortress Third Reich

german fortifications and defense systems in World War II

Afghanistan

a military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of Taliban

Panzer Operations

the eastern front memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945

The discovery and conquest of Mexico

1517-1521

"Tragic, colorful, indispensable." --T.R. Fehrenbach, author of Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico. Bernal Daz del Castillo (14951584) served under Corts through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative is both an invaluable document and a spectacular epic. Del Castillo saw Corts sink ...

A history in fragments

Europe in the Twentieth Century

"Fascinating and immensely readable" is the way one British newspaper described A History in Fragments. With the rise of the European superpower-symbolized by the introduction of the euro on January 1, 2002-Europe has gained a new prominence on the world stage. But if you think ...