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|  | The Second World War by Bernard Mayes, Martin Gilbert
First published in 1989 to mark the 50th anniversary of World War II, Gilbert's masterful history chronicles the entire war--from the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the surrender of the Japanese more than five years later. Surprisingly effective at reminding us that World War II was more than a series of battles and feats of arms .--Washington Post Book World. 64 pages of photographs; 102 maps. AUTHOR: Bernard Mayes, Martin Gilbert
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Great War in the Air by John H. Morrow
Although World War I was fought and won in the trenches, aviation emerged as the most advanced and innovative technological arm of battle, epitomizing the new total warfare as it meshed the front and the rear, the military and the civilian. The Greai War in the Air is a comprehensive study of the development and significance of airpower during World War I. This history compares military, political, technological, industrial, and cultural aspects of airpower in the greater combatant powers (France, Germany, and England) and the lesser powers (Italy, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the United States). Geared to both general readers and scholars, The Great War in the Air penetrates the heroic veneer of the fighter pilots' exploits, using autobiographical and biographical material to discuss the aviators' lives - the thrills, the risks, the stresses - and their attitudes toward aerial combat. Starting in 1909 with the beginnings of military aviation and the aviation industry and ending with their catastrophic postwar contraction, the book examines the totality of the air war: its heroism, romantic myths, politics, strategies, and cost in men and materiel. John H. Morrow, Jr., also elaborates on the advancements in aircraft and engine technology and production during airpower's development into a viable and threatening military weapon within a decade of its origins. AUTHOR: John H. Morrow
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Walter Zimmerman
This novel of love, adventure, and male rivalry on the frontiers of nineteenth-century Russia -- completed in 1862, when Tolstoy was in his early thirties -- has always surprised readers who know Tolstoy best through the vast, panoramic fictions of his middle years. Unlike those works, The Cossacks is lean and supple, economical in design and execution. AUTHOR: Leo Tolstoy, Walter Zimmerman
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Before Pecos by Linda S. Cordell
Pecos Pueblo, a prehistoric site that is now a National Monument just a few miles from Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been a focus of archaeological interest throughout the twentieth century, in part because the Pecos area offers the possibility of a combined ethnographic, archaeological, and historical study. Rowe ruin, about a mile from Pecos Pueblo, was first excavated in 1917 by Carl Guthe but not studied systematically for some sixty years thereafter. The 1980s excavations reported in this book were undertaken by University of New Mexico archaeologists in an effort to learn the relationship between social complexity and environmental conditions. AUTHOR: Linda S. Cordell
PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Sacred Rage by Robin Wright
For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative. Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, SACRED RAGE combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington. Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows. AUTHOR: Robin Wright
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Ghost Stories from the American Southwest by Judy D. Young, Richard Young
Description not available.Collects folklore about ghosts and other supernatural subjects told by people living west of the Mississippi and south of the Santa Fe Trail AUTHOR: Judy D. Young, Richard Young
PUBLISHER: August House Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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