XX wiek (do 1945 r.)

A story told by diaries, of a young woman’s recruitment into military intelligence from a jail cell. Involved as a child in the CIA’s MK-Ultra projects, her assignment was to become involved with a n …

On June 6, 1944, the largest military operation in history got underway in northern France as more than 150, 000 Allied troops began the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe. D-Day: The Story o …

Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were the two most consequential and successful Presidents of the 20th Century. Most casual observers today think of them as polar opposites in their views on gove …

Roy Whain did what hundreds of others have done, following in the hoofprints of his father and grandfather when he joined the Cavalry of the United States Army. But his service in the Great War would …

Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticid …

Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc natio …

Get ready for a wonderful story of realization and redemption. The author starts to tell his story from childhood into his late 60’s. It seems to be a difficult process, as he made many mistakes alon …

An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s. The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoner …

In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish see …

Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices, material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only nations, …