Category: History

Battleground Prussia

The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler’s regime

The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history

What kind of mischief can result from misunderstanding the monetary system? The work of 2 obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the

The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement

Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, this new edition maintains the 1995 original’s

Professor Michael D.C. Drout of Wheaton College immerses listeners in the extraordinary legacy of Viking civilization, which developed in what

From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of US economic policy from Kennedy to COVID—filled with lessons for today

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union – showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise

Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the

In this fascinating consideration of the Allied war effort, historian Richard Overy answers one of the great questions of the