Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-465481-79-6. Trace the epic history of World War II across the globe with more than 100 detailed maps. In this stunning visual history book, custom maps tell the story of the Second World War from the rise of the Axis powers to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each map is rich with detail and graphics,...
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2019. — 210 p. — (DK Knowledge Encyclopedias). — ISBN: 978-0-241363-37-3. Transform your view of history with this groundbreaking visual encyclopedia of the events of the past. From the disciplined armies of ancient Rome and the lives of ferocious samurai warriors to World War II and the rise of modern robotics, historical events are visualized in...
Dorling Kindersley, 2016. — 442 p. Featuring a foreword by the father of Big History, David Christian, and produced in association with the Big History Institute, Big History provides a comprehensive understanding of the major events that have changed the nature and course of life on the planet we call home. This first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general...
Peace Hill Press, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 978-1-933339-01-2. This first book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls—over 150,000 copies of the series in print!What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did...
Vintage Books, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-984898-16-7. Outstanding selection of great letters from ancient times to the 21st century, touching on power, love, art, sex, faith, and war. Written in History: Letters that Changed the World celebrates the great letters of world history, and cultural and personal life. Bestselling, prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore...
Polity Press, 2019. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-1-509534-47-4. Emmanuel Todd, "Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus" In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and...
Peace Hill Press, 2015. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-933339-09-8. This second book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls—over 150,000 copies of the series in print! Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our...
Peace Hill Press, 2015. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-971412-99-5. This third book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls—over 150,000 copies of the series in print! Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 672 p. — ISBN: 978-0-231174-36-5. In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in these three empires left a lasting legacy on the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — 304 p. Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region. Empire in Asia addresses the need for a thorough survey of the topic. Volume I traces the evolution of a constellation of competing...
2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 496 p. — ISBN: 978-0-198752-93-8. Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued to fascinate those who have come into contact with...
Bantam Press, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-787632-05-9. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' Guardian. The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols,...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 349 p. — ISBN: 978-1-442603-85-2. A Short History of the Ancient World begins with the Bronze Age and ends with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Rather than restricting his analysis to the Greek and Roman experience, Rauh introduces students to ancient Africa, Israel, Egypt, Iran, China, and the Indian subcontinent. To aid students on their...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 152 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198746-04-0. The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube...
McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 417 p. — ISBN: 978-0-073385-50-6. Medieval Europe introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. In an accessible and engaging narrative, it tells how the peoples of medieval Europe built, understood, and changed their world. Never losing sight of the neighboring civilizations of Byzantium and Islam, it has its feet firmly planted in...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — 304 p. Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region. Empire in Asia addresses the need for a thorough survey of the topic. This volume covers the long 19th century, commonly seen in terms...
Verso, 2017. — 752 p. — ISBN: 978-1-786630-81-8. In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible—a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of struggling peoples throughout the ages. From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century,...
John Wiley & Sons, 2013. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-111853266X. World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts Offers a comparative analysis of...
Pen & Sword Books, 2007. — 232 p. — ISBN: 978-1-594160-75-9. In 202 BC, near the North African city of Zama, the armies of two empires clashed. The Romans under Scipio Africanus won a bloody, decisive victory over Hannibal's Carthaginians. Scipio's victory signalled a shift in the balance of power in the ancient world. Thereafter, Rome became the dominant civilization of the...
Schocken Books, 2003. — 688 p. — ISBN: 978-1-860649-32-7. 'The best single volume for the general reader.'' Zionism is a movement unprecedented in history and the affects of this movement are still being felt today. It seems that everyone has an opinion about Zionism, but it is important to have a deep understanding of where this movement came from before one can have an...
John Wiley & Sons, 2013. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118532-72-4. World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts Offers a comparative analysis of...
Vintage Books, 2001. — 912 p. — ISBN: 978-0-375406-42-5. In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic...
John Wiley 8k Sons, 2000. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-0-471372-87-0. In this ingenious volume, victory or defeat in the twentieth century's climactic conflict depended on the secret war of wits that occurred between the scientists, mathematicians, and codebreakers on each side. This is a fascinating look at the behind the scenes duel to develop the winning weapons of World War II....
Crux Publishing Ltd, 2017. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-1-909979-50-3. In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what appeared to be a fool’s mission: marching several thousand miles into...
Pen & Sword Books, 2015. — 208 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-473845-58-0. IN JUST TEN WEEKS from 8 December 1941 to mid-February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita. Many British and Imperial units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and...
Regnery History, 2019. — 396 p. — ISBN: 978-1-621577-35-X. He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard of. Sidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-008355-52-5. Powerful and influential kings have long dominated our view of global history, their queens often relegated to the shadows, their influence, deeds and sacrifices unacknowledged and lost in the passing of time. But not anymore... This book chronicles the forgotten queens from across the globe – those who ruled...
Routledge, 2018. — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138299-87-1. Education in the Graeco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. Yet the complex ways in which pedagogical theory and practice intersected with their local environments has not been much explored in recent scholarship. Learning Cities in Late Antiquity suggests a new explanatory model that helps to understand better how...
London: Atlantic Books, 2019. — 192 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-786497-73-5. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Romans have been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 192 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-786497-71-9. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Vikings have been understood in a straightforward way - but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its...
Smithmark Publishers, 1991. — 104 p. — ISBN: 978-0-831790-54-7. A study of World War II's great mysteries features tales of Churchill, Hitler, Bormann, Amelia Earhart, Leslie Howard, and Rudolph Hess.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 64 p. — ISBN: 978-1-846039-19-3. Alex de Quesada reveals the full history of the US Coast Guard throughout World War II in this Elite title. In particular, the book draws attention to the little-known story of how the US Coast Guard ran a number of the landing craft throughout D-Day in 1944 as well as providing crucial anti-U-boat patrols throughout...