Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy....
Edited by Christopher Ford. With a foreword by Marko Bojcun. Translated by George S.N. Luckyj with the assistance of Ivan L. Rudnytsky.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Vol. 61.
ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany,...
The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius.
In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer...
The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA.
NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum....
HITLER CALLED IT THE "ZONE OF DESTINY" AND HE'D RISK HIS ENTIRE NAVY TO SMASH THROUGH IT.
X-Day, February 11,1942. In the pre-dawn darkness a massive fleet of German battleships, destroyers and escort ships steamed out of France for the...