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|  | Battle of Wits by Stephen Budiansky
Description not available.Working from freshly declassified documents, the author chronicles the exciting story of codebreaking during the last world war, from cat-and-mouse games with Nazi U-boats to the invasion of Normandy. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Stephen Budiansky
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
Description not available.An incisive account of the history of the Venetian Republic chronicles its fifth-century origins, development as a commercial and maritime power, Renaissance era, long decline, and termination in 1797 AUTHOR: John Julius Norwich
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The American City in the 1950s by Michael Johns
Description not available.A cultural history of the American City in the 1950s uses food, fashion, music, literature, art, architecture, and politics to paint a vivid cultural portrait of American urbanism at its height. (History) AUTHOR: Michael Johns
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Before Morning They Be No More
While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for wrecking --luring ships ashore to loot the cargo--it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow? Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction into this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind-the sort that really did happen.
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber
Winner of the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, here is a definitive history of the Spanish colonial period in North America. Authoritative and colorful, the volume focuses on both the Spaniards' impact on Native Americans and the effect of North Americans on Spanish settlers. Splendid .--New York Times Book Review. AUTHOR: David J. Weber
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Culture Matters by Lawrence E. Harrison, Samuel P. Huntington
Description not available.Probing the difficult questions of why some modern industrialized nations are more successful than others at providing basic freedoms and a decent standard of living to their people, the author looks to the cultural values underpinning societies, arguing that they are the key to understanding the success or failure of the developed nation. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Lawrence E. Harrison, Samuel P. Huntington
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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