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Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $16.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $16.00
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
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The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $26.00
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $26.00
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
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The President and the Assassin
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Written by Scott Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.00
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging... Read more >
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Written by Scott Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.00
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging... Read more >
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The 1950s American Home
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Chicago School of Architecture
Building the Modern City, 1880-1910
Written by Rolf Achilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago's architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of... Read more >
Building the Modern City, 1880-1910
Written by Rolf Achilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago's architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of... Read more >
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Colonial Food
Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: Trade Paperback, 60 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: Trade Paperback, 60 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony’s most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence...
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Deceiving Hitler PB
Double Cross and Deception in World War II
Written by Terry Crowdy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
In the war against Hitler, the Allies had to use every ounce of cunning and trickery that they possessed, and combining military deceptions with the double-agent network run by the intelligence services, they were able to send the enemy inaccurate and misleading information about Allied troops, plans and operations. From moving... Read more >
Double Cross and Deception in World War II
Written by Terry Crowdy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
In the war against Hitler, the Allies had to use every ounce of cunning and trickery that they possessed, and combining military deceptions with the double-agent network run by the intelligence services, they were able to send the enemy inaccurate and misleading information about Allied troops, plans and operations. From moving... Read more >
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The First World War
The War to End All Wars
Written by Geoffrey Jukes
Format: Hardcover, 364 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $30.00
Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterized by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously... Read more >
The War to End All Wars
Written by Geoffrey Jukes
Format: Hardcover, 364 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $30.00
Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterized by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Blackbeard's Last Fight - Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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De verde a Maduro
El sucesor de Hugo Chavez
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.00
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
El sucesor de Hugo Chavez
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.00
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Nazi Occult
Written by Kenneth Hite
Illustrated by Darren Tan
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $17.95
In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. Ordered by Hitler to discover new weapons that he could unleash on his enemies, the occultists experimented with dark magics, mystical artifacts, and creatures thought only to exist... Read more >
Written by Kenneth Hite
Illustrated by Darren Tan
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $17.95
In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. Ordered by Hitler to discover new weapons that he could unleash on his enemies, the occultists experimented with dark magics, mystical artifacts, and creatures thought only to exist... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Salerno 1943
The Allies invade southern Italy
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $21.95
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft... Read more >
The Allies invade southern Italy
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $21.95
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
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Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bf 110 vs Lancaster
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Early Aegean Warrior 5000-1450 BC
Written by Raffaele DiAmato
Illustrated by Giuseppe Rava
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The civilisations of the Greece in the Ancient World have inspired and fascinated throughout European history. The stories of Homer, later reinforced by the pioneering archaeological work carried out by men such as Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae and Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, have enabled modern researchers and historians to piece... Read more >
Written by Raffaele DiAmato
Illustrated by Giuseppe Rava
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The civilisations of the Greece in the Ancient World have inspired and fascinated throughout European history. The stories of Homer, later reinforced by the pioneering archaeological work carried out by men such as Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae and Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, have enabled modern researchers and historians to piece... Read more >
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The Tudor Garden
1485-1603
Written by Twigs Way
Format: Trade Paperback, 60 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
Contrived, colourful, and cultured, the garden of the Tudor period was a paradise on earth, given over to pleasurable pastimes. Artificiality was the fashion of the age, with clipped and twined plants vying for space between brightly painted woodwork, and patterned beds of coloured soils. Renaissance discoveries reared their head in... Read more >
1485-1603
Written by Twigs Way
Format: Trade Paperback, 60 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
Contrived, colourful, and cultured, the garden of the Tudor period was a paradise on earth, given over to pleasurable pastimes. Artificiality was the fashion of the age, with clipped and twined plants vying for space between brightly painted woodwork, and patterned beds of coloured soils. Renaissance discoveries reared their head in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Royal Coronations
Written by Lucinda Gosling
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
In 1953, Britain celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an event greeted at the time with widespread, nationwide enthusiasm. Sixty years on, the images and memories of the event still resonate, partly for their nostalgic appeal, but also as a reminder that while the monarchy of the modern age has... Read more >
Written by Lucinda Gosling
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
In 1953, Britain celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an event greeted at the time with widespread, nationwide enthusiasm. Sixty years on, the images and memories of the event still resonate, partly for their nostalgic appeal, but also as a reminder that while the monarchy of the modern age has... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Gypsies of Britain
Written by Janet Keet-Black
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It explores their travelling way of life and their traditional occupations, including harvesting, making baskets, dealing in horses, fortune telling and rat catching to royalty. Their impact on traditional museum dancing. It reveals... Read more >
Written by Janet Keet-Black
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It explores their travelling way of life and their traditional occupations, including harvesting, making baskets, dealing in horses, fortune telling and rat catching to royalty. Their impact on traditional museum dancing. It reveals... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The 1950s American Home
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
Written by Diane Boucher
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title explores what life was like in the 1950s American home. An age of optimism, it is about living the American Dream and how this was achieved, changes in the home, new convenience technology, new ways of living. From Ranch House to American Modernism to affordable homes in the suburbs... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Algerian War 1954-62
Written by Martin Windrow
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat... Read more >
Written by Martin Windrow
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
American Civil War Armies (4)
State Troops
Written by Philip Katcher
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states... Read more >
State Troops
Written by Philip Katcher
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Bf 110 vs Lancaster
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Blackbeard's Last Fight - Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
