A highly informative, richly illustrated guide to more than 45 of history’s most significant battles,
including Megiddo, Marathon, Alesia, Hastings, Nagashino, Yorktown, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Tsushima, Verdun, Stalingrad, the Tet Offensive, Iraqi Freedom, and many more•Features clear, full-color ...
Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second
World War in one of the most successful military strategies of modern warfare in this accessible, insightful and authoritative account. Historian, author and broadcaster James ...
D-Day is a landmark in history. The late Richard Holmes, one of the world’s most
eminent military historians, tells the compelling story of history’s biggest amphibious invasion and the successful Normandy campaign, which proved to be ta turning point in ...
In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of
new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. ...
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who
weren't there. ―George SantayanaPART 1 : EXAGGERATION Chapter 1. SlaveryChapter 2. Religion and ScienceChapter 3. Christopher ColumbusChapter 4. Nelson MandelaChapter 5. The Founding FathersChapter 6. ...
An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the
monumental race to build the first atomic weapons. Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized ...
Fishing's Strangest Tales gathers together choice stories and bizarre fishing tales from all over the
world. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Or how ...
The technical problems confronting different societies in different periods and the measures taken to solve
them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, the volumes in this series explore ...