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Author: Patrick Bishop

Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BO ...

Author: Bill O'Reilly

When Bill O'Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation's future.

Since that time, America has changed rapidly--some would eve ...

Author: Patrick Bishop

In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story. The Battle of Britain is one of the most crucial battles ever fou ...

Author: Ernest Brough

'We made our break on the night of April 8, 1944. A few weeks before there had been a mass escape of POWs and the countryside was crawling with Germans. But we didn't know anything about it, which was just as well ...' A ...

Author: G. Bingham J. Powell, Jr., Russell J. Dalton & Kaare Strom

Presenting the revised and updated theoretical chapters from the bestselling Comparative Politics Today, this text is a brief survey of the fundamental concepts students need to study government and politics. Beginning w ...

Author: Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin anticipated that his 2007 New York Times op-ed piece about the extension of the term of copyright would be received quietly. instead, within a week, the article had generated 750,000 angry comments. shoc ...

Author: Michael Burleigh

A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world, from its beginnings to the modern day, from the highly acclaimed author of 'Sacred Causes' and 'Earthly Powers'. The paperback edition will be updated to cover recent ...

Author: Franklin Foer

Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, F ...

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose & Douglas G. Brinkley

Since it first appeared in 1971, "Rise to Globalism" has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and info ...

Author: Susan L. Carruthers

News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what doesn't it take to sell a war, and to ...

Author: P. W. Singer

In "Wired for War", P.W. Singer explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare. We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make r ...

Author: Ilyas Akhmadov & Miriam Lanskoy

KEY TITLE The Russian-Chechen war has been the longest, cruelest, and bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II, surpassing even the level of destruction of Bosnia and Kosovo. Told from the perspective of its forme ...

Author: Brahma Chellaney

A resurgent Asia is now emerging as the global pivot. With the world's fastest-growing markets, fastest-rising military expenditures and most serious hot spots, Asia holds the key to the future global order. Yet, with in ...

Author: Jonah Goldberg

The "NEW" conservatives speak out

In 2008, when young voters turned out for Barack Obama in record numbers, liberal pundits crowed that conservatives are a dying breed. But is it true that the next generation is ...

Author: Hugh Bicheno

Controversial and revisionist history of America's first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series - written and presented by star military historian, Richard Holmes. Most people vi ...

Author: Christy Campbell

The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War I: the British pioneer volunteers who were the first tank-men into battle. Inspired by a visit to ...

Author: Peggy Pascoe

A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States-laws that banned in ...

Author: Karl Marx

This is Marx and Engel's landmark treatise - in a graphic deluxe edition. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, "The Communist Manifesto" is a revolutionary summons to the working ...

Author: Sean Hannity

In his first new book in six years, number 1 "New York Times" bestselling author and host of radio's "The Sean Hannity Show" (which is heard by roughly 13.5 million loyal listeners on 500 stations in the US) and TV's "Ha ...

Author: Michael Savage

The host of one of the most followed conservative talk radio programs and number 1 bestselling author - takes on President Obama's socialist agenda, his Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and his Lenin-like complex, showi ...