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This long-awaited book, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks work

Tells the story of the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.

In the fifth century BC, the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict as dramatic and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century, chronologically examining the utility of air power from World War&nbsp

This book recounts the battle for Europe through the eyes of three legendary generals: Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley.

Born in a slum in 1813 Scotland, David Livingstone spent his youth working twelve-hour days in a cotton factory, until a pamphlet inspired him to become a missionary.

The Patriot's History Reader examines the documents, speeches, and legal decisions that shaped our country into what it is today.

This revised edition of Cantor's breakthrough history of the Middle Ages incorporates new research and a sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, and women's roles in society.

This 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning work details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and America's efforts to find and assassinate

The first mature and persuasive work to explain the process of natural selection.

Early on the morning of December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a massive surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

In 1937, the Japanese army swept into Nanking and systematically raped, tortured, and murdered some 300,000 Chinese civilians.

Renowned historian Tony Judt's final work brings the twentieth century's conflicted intellectual history to life as the age of ideas.

This masterpiece of military history recounts the fateful hours that preceded and followed the invasion of Normandy, retelling the story of an epic battle that turned the tide against world fascism

In 1943 a twenty-one-year-old novice pilot found himself in the sights of an ace German fighter pilot.