Colin Shindler The state of Israel came into existence in 1948. Colin Shindler's book traces Israel's history across sixty years, from its optimistic beginnings - immigration, settlement, the creation of...

Gerda Charles The conversion of the Jews by Philip RothThe judgment of Solomon by Yehuda YaariFace from Atlantis by Nordine GordimerFist love by Isaac BabelGimpel the fool by Isaac Bashevis...

Chosen by Vernon Scannell  1987, British hardcover edition, Oxford University Press, London, UK. 354 pages. A beautifully printed, superb volume, written by British writers, who hunting / fishing / horse...

Charles Freeman Charles Freeman 's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through...

Barbara W Tuchman The Barbara Tuchman classic study of war from Troy to Vietnam. January 1, 1984 by KNOPF

Barbara W Tuchman In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war....

Francis Leopold McClintock January 1, 1998 by Konemann

Robert Louis Stevenson This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was...

Laurence Oliphant Cologne (Koln) Konemann Travel Classic, 1998. 4.75" x 7" tall; The Russian Shores of the Black Sea - 304pp; A Journey to Katmandu 160pp. January 1, 1998 by...

Richard F Burton One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on...

James Bowsell According to "James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best...

Frederick Forsyth Appearing before a panel of his peers, long-time field agent Sam McCready, known for an independent style that often drives him beyond the rules, must defend his unorthodox...