The 80th Anniversary of D-Day falls on June 6, 2024 In the early hours of that morning, three divisions of paratrooper and glider forces descended on Normandy. Already assembling offshore was the largest seaborne invasion fleet in the history of the world, ready to unleash over 130,000 troops against Hitler's Atlantic Wall. More than 7,000 ......
July 28th, 2024 is the 110th Anniversary of the beginning of the First World War The Great War as it came to be known was the first truly global conflict, and changed the course of world history. When World War I began in 1914, both sides had anticipated a swift and decisive victory, but the war quickly bogged down into a stalemate. The Western ......
The Autobiography of the Most Glamorous Mitford Sister
Diana Mitford, the most glamorous of the Mitfords, rivetingly narrates her life populated with key characters of 20th century history. Evelyn Waugh and Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, while not only Winston Churchill but also Adolf Hitler adored her. She lived in the grandest houses as well as in Holloway Prison. Later the Duke and Duchess of ......
History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties
How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground" "Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum ......
Delve into the photographic history of one of the world's most famous tanks; the T-34. Explore the technical innovations that kept the tank above the cream of the Wehrmacht. Never before has such a detailed study of the T-34 been conducted through the use of photographs, most of which were taken by those who opposed the tank on the battlefield.
A biography of Agnetha Faltskog, one of the most successful and enigmatic performers in the last fifty years of popular music. From her beginnings as a teenage singer in Sweden in the 1960's, through her decade of global superstardom with ABBA, to the years of self-imposed exile that followed, Agnetha's life and career has fascinated millions.
How Hitler's Chief of Intelligence Betrayed the Nazis
Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Adolf Hitler’s chief of military intelligence, accomplished something that neither President Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Prime Minister Winston Churchill could ever achieve – he saved the lives of hundreds Jewish refugees and other racial and political undesirables by rescuing them from Nazi Germany and other ......
How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness
Freedoms Furies tells the story of the friendships between three remarkable American novelists--Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand--who stood for individualism against the tides of the twentieth century collectivism, and in the process transformed politics in the United States.
On New Year's Day 1959, Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement overthrew the ruling regime in Cuba, bringing the Cold War to the United States' doorstep and setting the island nation and its superpower neighbor on a collision course. The battle came in April 1961 on the southern coast of Cuba at the Bah?a de los Cochinos--the Bay of Pigs. In a ......
