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Otto Rahn's lifelong search for the Grail brought him to the attention of the SS leader Himmler, who shared his esoteric interests. Induced by Himmler to become the chief investigator of the occult for the Nazis, Rahn traveled throughout Europe – fro ..

This 2008 book focuses on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe in the millennia between the last Ice Age and the spread of agriculture, between ten thousand and five thousand years ago. Traditionally viewed as a peri ..

The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion – which began on August 21, 1831 – is known among school children and adults. This novel includes introduction by TBD (either Stanley Crouch, Cornell West, or Michael Dyson), as well as footnotes, a bib ..

Late in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals where atomic wastes had been stored for over ten years. The result was devastating. The primary radioactive contaminati ..

Theroux contributes new prefaces to these new editions of his travel writing classics.

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„The Pursuit of Glory“ brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history – from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Ti ..

The first Americans in space–Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn–battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.

20 November, 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. With thousands of terrified worshippers trapped inside, the result was a bloody siege that la ..

The bestselling author of the thrilling work on the Vietnam War, „The Best and the Brightest,“ offers unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner of American history: the Korean War.

In this engaging history, world-renowned historian Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people, armies, and events that conquered an area from Spain to China in just over 100 years.

The Republic of Pirates features the 18th-century pirates Edward „Blackbeard“ Teach and „Black Sam“ Bellamy, both of whom rose from England's underclass to become wealthy, notorious, and enormously powerful. Along with their associates in the Bahamas ..