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In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted whatlittle money and supplies the country had during its victoriousfight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, theland west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measuredout and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set ofmeasurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of themorass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in dailylife. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how weultimately gained the American Customary System-the lasttraditional system in the world-and how one man's surveying chainindelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and onour culture from coast to coast.
In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s armywas beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet aseries of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge,drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months ofbrutal fighting. With Armageddon , the eminent militaryhistorian Max Hastings gives us memorable accounts of the greatbattles and captures their human impact on soldiers and civilians.He tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, raisingprovocative questions and offering vivid portraits of the greatleaders. This rousing and revelatory chronicle brings to life thecrucial final months of the twentieth century’s greatest globalconflict.
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute insights into the underlying forces that created the dynamics of the revolution, as well as the personalities responsible for day-to-day decisions during this momentous period. In tracing the web of intrigues and influences that transpired as the French Revolution, Lefebvre illuminates the fundamentals of historical interpretation and, at the same time, tells a story that will compel every reader.
With Mussolini ’s Italy , R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremostscholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to lifethe period in which Italians participated in one of the twentiethcentury’s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce’s Fascistswere the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence andobedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler’s firstamong them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted itsideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism fromtaking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle ofstruggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account ofItaly’s darkest hour.
Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became thecreator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for thebest and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries suchas Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, whoarguably saved us from nuclear annihilation and unquestionablycreated Eisenhower’s "military-industrial complex." In the Kennedyera, RAND analysts and their theories of rational warfare steeredour conduct in Vietnam. Those same theories drove our invasion ofIraq forty-five years later, championed by RAND affiliated actorssuch as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad. ButRAND’s greatest contribution might be its least known: rationalchoice theory, a model explaining all human behavior throughself-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-ledtransformation of our social and economic system but also unleasheda resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied --religion, patriotism, tribalism. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella
An absorbing and comprehensive work, INDIAN WARS recounts theviolent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers thatlasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which stillresonate today. Here, the widely respected historians Robert Utleyand Wilcomb Washburn examine both small battles and major wars --from the Native rebellion of 1492, to Crazy Horse and the SiouxWar, to the massacre at Wounded Knee. This volume contains a newintroduction by Robert Utley.
Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look atthe secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesyof one of the world’s most engaging royal historians Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled byambitious children, the kings and queens of Great Britain have beenmany things, but they have never been dull. Some sacrificedeverything for love, while others met a cruel fate at the edge ofan axman’s blade. From the truth behind the supposed madness ofKing George to Queen Victoria’s surprisingly daring taste insculpture, Behind the Palace Doors ventures beyond therumors to tell the unvarnished history of Britain’s monarchs,highlighting the unique mix of tragedy, comedy, romance, heroism,and incompetence that has made the British throne a seat of suchunparalleled fascination. Featuring: ? stories covering every monarch, from randy Henry VIII to reservedElizabeth II ? historical myths debunked and surprising “Did you know . . . ?”anecdotes ? four f
For this oral history of special operations in World War II,Miller, the author of a previous oral history of the D-Day invasion(Nothing Less Than Victory), used personal interviews with thesurvivors (both from British Special Operations Executives and theU.S. Office of Strategic Services) and their letters to tell eachdramatic story. Chapters center on the war's major events, with thefighting in Europe getting larger coverage than that in thePacific. Each person tells a convincing story of high risk andoccasional adventure heightened by the likelihood of capture by theenemy. Capture often meant torture, imprisonment, and death, andlife expectancy was about six weeks. Special agents were more oftenthan not turned in by civilians. Each narrative is a trueaccomplishment and all the more so (from a detached reader's pointof view, at least) if the agent were caught. An enjoyable andfascinating read, this book should be of interest to subjectspecialists or general readers who like the World War II works ofSt
Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, thesinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brotherRichard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murdermysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill “thePrinces in the Tower,” as is commonly believed, or was the murderersomeone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred ofcontemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, AlisonWeir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the doublemurder. We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, andstruggle for power that culminated in the imprisonment of theprinces and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard’s claim tothe throne as Richard III. A masterpiece of historical research anda riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in theTower at last provides a solution to this age-old puzzle. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more. RandomHouseReadersCircle.com
A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II inEurope, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and theultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct thetumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, JohnToland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries andinterviewed more than six hundred people—from Hitler’s personalchauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, and Heinrici; fromunderground leaders to diplomats; from top Allied field commandersto brave young GIs. Toland adeptly weaves together these interviewsusing research from thousands of primary sources. When it was first published, The Last 100 Days made history,revealing after-action reports, staff journals, and top-secretmessages and personal documents previously unavailable tohistorians. Since that time, it has come to be regarded as one ofthe greatest historical narratives of the twentieth century.
Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the RomanEmpire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west inthe fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, iswidely considered the greatest work of history ever written. Thisabridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a compassequivalent to a long novel. Casual readers now have access to thefull sweep of Gibbon’s narrative, while instructors and studentshave a volume that can be read in a single term. This uniqueedition emphasizes elements ignored in all other abridgments—inparticular the role of religion in the empire and the rise ofIslam.
Turkey, write journalists Nicole and Hugh Pope in this well-madenarrative history, is a land that defies easy categorization, amelange of elements "European, Western, Eastern, Islamic,fascistic, anarchic" that has always been something of an enigma tooutsiders. After decades of stagnation, it is now emerging as anation of central importance in Eurasian geopolitics, as it was inthe days of the Ottoman Empire. The authors describe the growth ofthe modern Turkish state in the aftermath of World War I, when thatempire, defeated by the Allied powers, splintered into some 30independent states. Led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his so-calledYoung Turks, the postwar state sought to curb the growth of Islamicfundamentalism, to introduce some measure of democracy into aformerly autocratic system, and to secure a place for Turkey in theconstellation of world powers. They were only partly successful;Atatürk, the authors contend, "led Turkey on the path ofWesternization, but left it stranded half-way to fulldemocratizat
More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is amagnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased,skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking andsophisticated research. CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman hasbrought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl WarI. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledgeof her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for thefirst time, just how the war started, why, and why it could havebeen stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time anda people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST willnot be forgotten.
National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end allwars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British primeminister David Lloyd George, and French premier GeorgesClemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmarkwork of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic andintimate view of those fateful days, which saw new politicalentities—Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them—born out ofthe ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern worldredrawn.
In this groundbreaking work, leading historian FelipeFernández-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole,showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, andSouth America in isolation without turning to the intertwiningforces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth,and his trademark wit, Fernández-Armesto covers a range ofcultural, political, and social subjects, taking us from the dawnof human migration to North America to the Colonial andIndependence periods to the “American Century” and beyond.Fernández-Armesto does nothing less than revise the conventionalwisdom about cross-cultural exchange, conflict, and interaction,making and supporting some brilliantly provocative conclusionsabout the Americas’ past and where we are headed.
On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged thegreatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord,the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich.With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals theterrible human cost that this battle exacted. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day, heexplores the Allies’ push inward, with many British and Americaninfantry units suffering near 100 percent casualties during thecourse of that awful summer. Far from a gauzy romanticizedremembrance, Hastings details a grueling ten week battle tooverpower the superbly trained, geographically entrenched GermanWehrmacht. Uncompromising and powerful in its depiction of wartime,this is the definitive book on D-Day and the Battle ofNormandy.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a bookthat combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deftexploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape oursociety today.
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, hereis a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests inthe Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in theNew World has all the characteristics of great historicalliterature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religiousfanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul ofhumankind. Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as aworld power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando andIsabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completingrestoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flushwith success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’splan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold andspices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world,this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—thedividing line between the medieval and the modern. Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’smeagerly f
In this intimate narrative journey, Hoffman returns to herPolish homeland and five other countries--Hungary, Romania,Bulgaria, and the two nations of the former Czechoslovakia--tovividly portray a landscape in the midst of change. "Alert andintuitive."--The Washington Post. Author readings.
"In A Grave in Gaza, Omar Yussef and his boss, Magnus Wallender,travel to the Gaza Strip for a routine inspection of the UN schoolsin the Gaza refugee camps.Upon their arrival they meet James Cree,the UN security officer for Gaza, who informs them that a teacherat one of their schools has been accused of spying and imprisoned.As they try to free the teacher and keep a lid on an explosivepolitical situation, they are pulled into a confrontation withGaza's warring government factions and the criminal gangs withwhich they are connected.Omar Yussef confronts the dark elements ofGaza--dirty politics, bribery, assassination, and kidnapping--inhis struggle to free the innocent and honor the dead.
Many volumes have been written about the long reign ofElizabeth I. Now, for the first time, comes a brilliant new workthat focuses on the critical year her reign ended, a time in whichEngland lost its childless queen and a Machiavellian struggleensued to find her successor. December 1602. After forty-four years on the throne, QueenElizabeth is in decline. The formidable ruler whose motto is Sempereadem (I never change) has become a dithering old woman, missingteeth and wearing makeup half an inch thick. The kingdom has beenweakened by the cost of war with Spain and the simmering discontentof both the rich and the poor. The stage has been set, at longlast, for succession. But the Queen who famously never married hasno heir. Elizabeth’s senior relative is James VI of Scotland, Protestantson of Elizabeth’s cousin Mary Queen of Scots. But as a foreignerand a Stuart, he is excluded from the throne under English law. Theroad to and beyond his coronation will be filled with conspiracyand dupli
