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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Ed Offley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralOn June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupt...

• Author(s): Flint Whitlock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAnzio was one of the greatest battles of World War II-a desperate gamble to land a large amphibious force ...

• 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): Shibley Telhami • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralCould the United States defeat Al-Qaeda but still lose the broader war on terrorism? In The Stakes, Shibley Telhami, ...

• Author(s): Roger Crowley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralFrom a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian strongh...

• Author(s): Robert Shogan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralWith Hard Bargain, Robert Shogan offers an account of one of World War II's most dramatic chapters--the sto...

• Author(s): Matthew Avery Sutton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in Wo...

• Author(s): Robert B. Edgerton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - GeneralAfrica's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begin...

• 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): Brendan Simms • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAn "absorbing" and "visceral" (New York Times) account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century d...

• Author(s): Graham Farmelo • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralPerhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuc...

• Author(s): Jack Fairweather • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Afghan War (2001-2021)In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph--a "good war"--in com...