Wilson D. Miscamble 
Most Controversial Decision [PDF ebook] 
Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan

First Published in 2005. How should the “problem of order“ associated with weapons of mass destrcution be understood and addressed today? Have the problem and its solution been misconceived and mis …

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Cau …

Originally published in 1904. The following “Notes“ were not penned in the presumptuous hope of adding materially to the existing knowledge of the subjects with which they deal. The first part of t …

Waged between 1926 and 1929, The Cristero War (also known as The Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada) resulted from a religious insurrectionary movement, which formed in protest of the Mexican Revolut …

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi“is and Sufis in modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the suppo …

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and abolition. Yet, as this book shows, the slave trade a …

Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the so …

Seeking Love in Modern Britain charts the emergence of the modern British single through an account of the dating industry that sprang up to serve men and women. It shows how – amid a period of unpre …

The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship fo …

During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men he knew and worked with on a daily basis, using his …