At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, an operator pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. This started a process that led to the explosion of the reactor, exposing the core,...
Published in 1949, this novel received the Viareggio Award. It’s based on a real story that Renata Viganò (Bologna,1900-1976) lived during the partisan resistance against fascism and German invasion, in a...
Account of battle for Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea in the Pacific in 1942, the first time the Japanese were defeated on land. Well researched and easy reading. No supernatural content. In last chapters...
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by peoples. It was also the first in modern history to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that...
With the energetic style of a journalist and the palpable devotion of a fan, Bob Spitz tells an exhaustive history of the Boys and the Band. He begins with a pre-history of their families and Liverpudlian...
The work is a compilation of battles of the Israeli Special Forces from the War of Independence in 1948 to the intifadas of 2008, 2012 and 2014. The accounts are written for general readership. Technical...
The work is a historical research about the years in which Opus Dei grew (1939-1940) in Spain, immediately after the Spanish Civil War. Before the Spanish Civil War started, St. Josemaría Escrivá set up a...
The Volunteer tells the story of Witold Pilecki, a gentleman farmer and Polish cavalry officer who joined the underground after the occupation of Poland by the Nazis. In 1940 Pilecki volunteered to...
Essays written by Australian conservatives based on the radio programs broadcast by Robert Menzies, former PM during the Second World War. Sometimes tone is self-serving. Religion and God mentioned often...
In How We Got Here, David Frum contends that it was the 70s, not the mythical 60s, that shaped American society into what it is now. At times a jeremiad, at times optimistic, at times provocative...