Land of fancy, people with "brave heart" - this book tells you how the Scots become the first modern nation and literate society, which can never be neglected in human history.
Comprehensive and well written, informative but entertaining – this book covers the history of the Royal Navy and its role in stopping Napoleon, projecting British power and helping colonial expansion around the world.
A true story collected from the yarns of Easy Company survivors that tells the tale of brave citizen soldiers and their experiences as they battle the Nazi menace – The world will always owe a debt of gratitude to the men who "laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom"!
There are those that would curse the darkness, others who would light a candle. Iris chose to bring past crimes and past injustices into the light - she lit a flame and passed it to others.
This thoroughly modern treatise brings the latest thinking and information to the man-in-the-street which is the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language.
A demanding, vast, heavyweight of a book is what this is - a remarkable narrative of the grand intellectual venture of humankind, rich in fascinating, dramatic details.
Ambrose has written prolifically about men who were larger than life: he illustrates Lewis's life, his relation to William Clark, and Thomas Jefferson, creating a picture painted in the readers' mind.
Market price: ¥ 178.00
MSL price: ¥ 168.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (June 2, 1997
This book evocatively relates the sad tale of the final displacement of the American Indian from the West, covering the period from 1860 to the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890.
