Pierre Loti 
India 

When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained, …

Angolan Political Thought introduces anticolonial thinkers whose writings on colonialism and liberation have been instrumental in the formation of Angolan identity. It focuses on the political nature …

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In June 1944, the United States military launched an offe …

This illustrated study pits Germany”s Pz Kpfw III against the Soviet Union”s T-34 in the wake of Hitler”s 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. This book evaluates the Pz Kpfw III and T-34 medi …

A fully illustrated study of the Wehrmacht”s French volunteer units and their actions on the Eastern Front and in North Africa during World War II. It is little known that, in late 1941, French …

Go details through institutional analysis how major financial institutions (including banks and insurance companies), industries, and the U.S. government behaved and linked with each other during the …

Cursed Blessings explores the relationship between sexual nonconformity and religious radical dissent in the early modern Western European world. While many studies have been devoted to the process …

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built’a delightful, novel and authoritative …

‘Pembrokeshire’s Past’ vividly and unforgettably brings to life the boisterous and turbulent history of this little-known Welsh peninsula jutting out into the Irish Sea. The book is a fascinating and …