Queen Victoria's Little Wars
6 best books like Queen Victoria's Little Wars (Byron Farwell): Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire, 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, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia, Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, The Boer War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
| Author | Roger Crowley |
| ISBN | 0812994000 |
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then...
| 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 | Karl E. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0465045766 |
From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain...
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
| Author | Wendy Lower |
| ISBN | 0701187212 |
History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the next Aryan generation and be a loyal cheerleader for the Führer. Then they became the Trümmerfrauen, or Rubble Women, as they cleared and tidied their ruined country to get it back on its feet. They were Germany's...
| Author | Thomas Pakenham |
| ISBN | 0380720019 |
The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating...
