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  • The Battle of the Somme

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    Fought during 1916, the Battle of the Somme was conceived by the French and British as a great offensive to be waged against Germany even as France poured incredible numbers of men into the slaughterhouse that was the desperate defense of Verdun.The French general-in-chief, Joseph “Papa” Joffre, was especially anxious to go on the offensive. For the French high command cherished the belief, born ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Battle of Verdun

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    The Great War ate men, machines, and money without mercy or remission. At the end of 1915, the German army chief of staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed he knew how to finally kill the beast and win the war.On Christmas day, 1915, Falkenhayn sent a letter to Kaiser Wilhelm II proposing a campaign to demoralize Britain, whose industrial might and maritime power were the foundation of the alliance ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 100 Turning Points in Military History

    The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare Around the World

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects. This book is about the turning points that not only make military history dynamic but crucial to the story of humanity and civilization. This book is about ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 100 Turning Points in American History

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    Arnold J. Toynbee, the most famous professional historian of the twentieth century, is widely quoted as having declared that “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends. It ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • In the Time of the Revolution

    Living the War of American Independence

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    The American Revolution was a war, but it was also a time, a span of history, in which some people fought, but most just lived. They thought, acted, worked, raised families, worshipped, built, sold, bought, and tried to live as best they could in a time of hope, anxiety, despair, loss, gain, and, above all, disruption.In the Time of the Revolution is a popular, single-volume history of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Miracle at Belleau Wood

    The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    The Battle of Belleau Wood, stunning in both its concentration and intensity, was the fiery furnace from which the modern United States Marine Corps emerged as America's fiercest and most effective warriors, the world's preeminent fighting elite. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How America Won World War I

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany’s Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his answer. “The American infantry,” he said. He made it ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Miracle at Belleau Wood

    The Birth Of The Modern U.S. Marine Corps

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    Now in paperback!Military Book Club® Main SelectionHistory Book Club® Featured Alternate*The battle that transformed a group of commonsoldiers into the modern-day Marine CorpsMiracle at Belleau Wood begins in June 1918 at Les Mare Farm in France with just 200 U.S. marines, who spilled their blood to prevail against impossible odds, resisting an overwh... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Armies South, Armies North

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    An argument settler--and starter--for Civil War buffs who want to know which side had the better soldiers: Armies South, Armies North definitively compares the military forces of both sides.Civil War buffs are always arguing over which side had the better soldiers. Armies South/Armies North by Alan Axelrod helps readers reconsider their understanding of America’s most harrowing war. Axelrod is the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Generals South, Generals North

    The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered

    by Alan Axelrod, author of How America Won World War I ...
    With April 12, 2011, set to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, the time is ripe for a new assessment of the conflict’s most influential and controversial military leaders. Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-four such commanders—twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Laurence Sterne

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Alan B. Howes ...
    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Restoring the Classic in Sociology

    Traditions, Texts and the Canon

    by Alan R. How ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in sociology and critique the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim as ideologically outdated. The author mounts a strong challenge to this view, criticising such notions as de-traditionalization, ... Read more

    $88.19 USD