Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems Volume I
10 best books like Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems Volume I (Rudyard Kipling): The Great Plains, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, Queen Victoria's Little Wars, The Franco-Prussian War, The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879, The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade, Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales, Three Complete Novels: Howards End, A Room with a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread
| Author | Walter Prescott Webb |
| ISBN | 0803297025 |
This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment....
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
| ISBN | 1406845876 |
The story of a minor frontier war at the boundary of British India in the 1890s. Highly recommended, for two reasons.
First, it's by the young Winston Churchill, who is a fine stylist and a writer of substantial interest.
Second, because we're today again engaged in a colonial war,...
| Author | Dominic Green |
| ISBN | 0743280717 |
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy...
The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
| Author | Daniel R. Headrick |
| ISBN | 0195028325 |
Headrick's book is a short, narrowly focused, academic, and somewhat dry study of the technologies (gunboats, quinine, breechloading weapons, and railways) which allowed Europeans to colonize and otherwise control large swathes of Asia and Africa in the 19th century, and is more likely to be read...
| Author | Byron Farwell |
| ISBN | 0393302350 |
From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or rebellion. Continuous warfare became an accepted...
| Author | Michael Eliot Howard |
| ISBN | 0415266718 |
In 1870 Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the Continent but the whole climate of European moral and political thought. The overwhelming triumph of German military might,...
| Author | Donald R. Morris |
| ISBN | 0306808668 |
Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empire; from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka...
| Author | Cecil Woodham-Smith |
| ISBN | 0140012788 |
Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 1570754608 |
على أرض الواقع تولستوي قبل الاعترافات مختلف كل الاختلاف عن تولستوي بعد الاعترافات – في إطار الأدب بالتحديد-. إذا كان التغيير قد طال الفكر ونظام الحياة بشكل...
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0517091267 |
All three of these books are wonderful, beautiful books and having them in one edition definitely makes it easy to read and re-read them. ANGELS is actually my favorite Forster novel for some reason- probably because I just love the character of Philip and the scenes between him and Caroline are amongst...
| Author | Warren Zimmermann |
| ISBN | 0374179395 |
" We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the United States became an imperial nation within five short years a century ago (1898-1903), exploding...
| Author | Janet Dailey |
| ISBN | 0373103387 |
Rome was not man enough for one woman
Newspaper reporter, Lexie Templeton, didn't need to meet Rome Lockwood to know his type - a male chauvinist playboy with a different girl on his arm every night!
Lexie's caustic comments to Shari Sullivan, the gossip columnist, hit the headlines,...
The Norton Book of Women's Lives
| Author | Phyllis Rose |
| ISBN | 0393312909 |
"This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . ."* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography,"** the women whose life stories are collected here...
| Author | Jim Pipe |
| ISBN | 0764137808 |
Young d'Artagnan, in search of fortune and adventure, joins three of the French king's musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Soon, this dynamic quartet is defending the king against his most menacing enemies. Using the graphic novel format, Graphic Classics introduce children to many of the world's...
| Author | H.M. Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0810160110 |
Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a lighthearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and...
| Author | Robert William Fogel |
| ISBN | 0393312186 |
This academic study is a provocative, daring, and creative work that highlights how history can be elastic. Fogel won a Nobel Prize for his contribution as one of the chief architects of the “cliometric revolution” in historiography and in this book he applies statistics and economics to reexamine...
A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
| Author | C.V. Wedgwood |
| ISBN | 1585790338 |
King Charles I was his own worst enemy. Self-righteous, arrogant, and unscrupulous, he had a penchant for making bad decisions. His troubles began the moment he ascended the throne in 1625 upon the death of his father James I. Charles simultaneously alienated both his subjects and his Parliament,...
| Author | Duncan Wu |
| ISBN | 0631222693 |
The second edition of Romanticism: An Anthology is widely regarded as the most comprehensive collection available of poetry and prose by the British Romantics. This magnificent Anthology is now available as a package with David Miall and Duncan Wu's revolutionary Romanticism: The CD-ROM. Both...
| Author | Bodie Thoene |
| ISBN | 0785269282 |
Jack Ryland is riding the Wells Fargo stage through California gold country when the stage is robbed by highwaymen. Not being much of a hero, he'd give almost anything to impress lovely fellow passenger, Eliza Richardson. A twenty-six-year-old man fresh from the East suddenly finds himself in the...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea / The Mysterious Island / Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Around the World in Eighty Days
| Author | Jules Verne |
| ISBN | 1566195365 |
A pioneer of the now immensely popular genre of fiction we call science fiction, Jules Verne wrote startling adventure stories that not only vividly captured the imagination of the 19th-century reading public, but are still read avidly today. Filled with wondrous voyages, marvelous semi-scientific...
| Author | Dee Brown |
| ISBN | 0803257309 |
“[C]avalry and infantry were separated in the first fury of attack, the men on foot facing a thousand warriors so close it was possible to see the color of their war paint and the metal ornaments and brass studs of their shields. Feathered arrows streamed like flights of bright speeding birds, and the...
The Yogi Assignment: A 30-Day Program for Bringing Yoga Practice and Wisdom to Your Everyday Life
| Author | Kino MacGregor |
| ISBN | 1611803861 |
An inspirational 30-day yoga and lifestyle program that will challenge your mind, body, and spirit--by one of the most dynamic and high-profile contemporary Ashtanga yoga teachers, Kino MacGregor. Embracing the yoga lifestyle has more to do with how you live your life than how successfully you can...
| Author | Duncan Heath |
| ISBN | 1840460091 |
Introducing Romanticism is one of a series of over 30 graphic introductions to philosophical, scientific, political and religious movements and their leading exponents. They are handy pocket-sized works, but it is difficult to ascertain at whom they are aimed. The cover is the best illustration...
| Author | Geoffrey Wawro |
| ISBN | 0521584361 |
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European...
