Search results for “[Subject: wars-conflicts-general]”

• Author(s): Victor Davis Hanson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the...

• Author(s): Victor Davis Hanson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA "breathtakingly magisterial" account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian (Wa...

• Author(s): Rachel Chrastil • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - General"The best modern account" (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the pa...

• Author(s): John A. Lynn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the condu...

• Author(s): Peter Fritzsche • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both des...

• Author(s): Nicholas Stargardt • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight -- and keep fighting -- for a lost cause i...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Wawro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War"Remarkable... the best overview of America's misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard o...

• Author(s): Sean McMeekin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin--not Hitler--was the animating force of World War II in this m...

• Author(s): Robert Smith Thompson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralBy moving China to center stage, Robert Smith Thompson expands the traditional boundaries of the Pacific Theater of World War II ...

• Author(s): Eric M. Bergerud • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAn exploration of the battles and tactics of the air war in the Pacific, including discussion of combata...

• Author(s): Norman F. Dixon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA classic study of military leadership uncovering why generals fail The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme,...

• Author(s): Rachel Chrastil • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - General"The best modern account" (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the pa...

• Author(s): Karl E. Meyer | Shareen Blair Brysac • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - GeneralFrom the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, To...

• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I

• Author(s): Andre Gerolymatos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralWhen it comes to the Balkans, most people quickly become lost in the quagmire of struggle and intractable hatred that ...

• Author(s): Andrew Williams • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralWhat history calls the "Battle of the Atlantic" was really a full-scale war-within-a-war, fought from the...

• Author(s): Roger Moorhouse • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward wa...

• Author(s): Eugene Rogan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I"A remarkably readable, judicious and well-researched account" (Financial Times) of World War I in the Middle East By ...

• Author(s): Victor Davis Hanson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - AncientAn instant New York Times bestseller, this "profound book" (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some societies chose to utte...

• Author(s): Roger Moorhouse • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAn "exemplary" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War IIFor Americans, World ...

• Author(s): Sarah Percy • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralThe definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's r...

• Author(s): Judith Matloff • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralA veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe-from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia-to ...

• Author(s): Paul Thomas Chamberlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAn unsparing, "sweeping," and "vivid" (Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering) ne...

• Author(s): Peter Fritzsche • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to underst...

• Author(s): Alexander Watson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IA prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World WarIn Sep...

• Author(s): David Patrikarakos • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Process - Media & InternetA leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how w...

• Author(s): Anna Reid • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship bet...

• Author(s): Republic New Republic • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humani...

• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IAfter the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, value...

• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAfter the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even m...

• Author(s): Kevin P. Phillips • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - Revolutions & Wars of Independence (See Also UnitA strikingly fresh and revisionist explanation for the rise of Anglo-America as the ...

• Author(s): Robert B. Edgerton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralDuring World War II, many of Japan's soldiers committed such crimes against humanity that the world recoiled in horro...

• Author(s): Robert Shogan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismAmerica's culture war - which pits traditionalists, unrelenting defenders of the social orthodoxy, a...

• Author(s): Steven M. Gillon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralFranklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." History woul...

• Author(s): Michael Neiberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAs the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Ot...

• Author(s): Joseph Maiolo • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralDid the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc, historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in...