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  • The Killing Season

    The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War

    by Robert Cowley ...
    An in-depth, authoritative account of the fall of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in World War I and in modern warfare—by the founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History“A masterful and heartbreaking book . . . If you want to know how modern warfare began, The Killing Season is for you.”—Geoffrey C. Ward, co-author of The Civil ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    What If...? Vol 3

    The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

    by Robert Cowley ...
    Narrated by Murphy Guyer ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - What If...?

    Abridged

    4 hours 59 min

    Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining.This ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    What If...? Vol 2

    Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

    by Robert Cowley ...
    Narrated by Murphy Guyer ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 23 min

    There is no surer way to feel the danger or the good fortune of our collective past than to contemplate those moments when the world's future hung in the balance. Our brightest historians speculate on some of these intriguing crossroads and the ways in which our lives might have been changed for the better -- or the worse.These unabridged essays range across the full span of history. Geoffrey ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Poilu

    The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914 – 1918

    by Louis Barthas, Robert Cowley ...
    Translated by Edward M. Strauss ...
    "An exceptionally vivid memoir of a French soldier's experience of the First World War."—Max Hastings, New York Times bestselling authorAlong with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Anything - Why Not Nothing: The Goldilocks Paragon

    by Captain Robert Cowley ...
    Captain Robert Cowley walked a deserted Pacific beach; it was pre-dawn, dark, and chilly. Suddenly, he heard a voice: “Robert, look up.” He looked up and observed the feint glow of Mars and billions of stars. The voice spoke again: “Why anything. Why not nothing.” Cowley, an archetypal on-and-off believer, wrote Why Anything—Why Not Nothing for atheists, theists, scientists, evolutionists, and ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • What If?

    The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

    Edited by Robert Cowley ...
    Series series What If Essays
    If history took a different turn, where would we be today?What If? by Robert Cowley explores the fascinating concept of alternate history through a collection of thought-provoking essays. Delve into the minds of renowned historians as they ponder the monumental events of the past and dare to ask, what if things had gone differently?From the war between the Ottomans and the Romans and the fall of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sex, Lies and Politics

    The Secret Influences That Drive our Political Choices

    by Philip Cowley, Robert Ford ...
    Elections aren't just important – they are revealing. They tell us things about who we are and how we behave. Written by leading political experts, Sex, Lies and Politics reveals what really makes us tick.At once funny, revealing and shocking, it covers everything you need to know about the voters and their quirks, foibles and sexual secrets, including when they lie (often to themselves), how they ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Blood Royal

    Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 31 min

    Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family—a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How did the dynastic system cope with female rule, or pretenders to the throne? How did dynasties use names, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Cold War

    A Military History

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • What Ifs? Of American History

    Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

    Edited by Robert Cowley ...
    Series series What If Essays
    Did Eisenhower avoid a showdown with Stalin by not taking Berlin before the Soviets? What might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated? This new volume in the widely praised series presents fascinating "what if..." scenarios by such prominent historians as: Robert Dallek, Caleb Carr, Antony Beevor, John Lukacs, Jay Winick, Thomas Fleming, Tom Wicker, Theodore Rabb, Victor David Hansen, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Bulletproof Problem Solving

    The One Skill That Changes Everything

    by Charles Conn, Robert McLean ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    Complex problem solving is the core skill for twenty-first-century teamsComplex problem solving is at the very top of the list of essential skills for career progression in the modern world. But how problem solving is taught in our schools, universities, businesses and organizations comes up short. In Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything you'll learn the seven-step ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • What If? II

    Edited by Robert Cowley ...
    Series series What If Essays
    What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing "what if..." scenarios by some of today's greatest historical minds-including James Bradley, Caleb Carr, James Chace, Theodore F. Cook, Jr., Carlos M.N. Eire, George Feifer, Thomas Fleming, Richard B. Frank, Victor Davis Hanson, Cecelia Holland, Alistair Horne, David ... Read more

    $14.99 USD