Fully illustrated, this absorbing study explores the evolving sniping technology and tactics employed by both sides in Asia and the Pacific during 1941-45.

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch pounded the isolated village of Santa Catarina IxtahuacA!n in mountainous western Guatemala, destroying many homes. The experience traumatized many Ixtahuaquenses. Much of the community relocated to…

This book is a memoir of the first settlers of Taunton, Massachusetts, and their early descendants. The author recounts the life stories of two brothers, John and Walter Deane, who…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

With the nineteenth-century enthusiasm for railways came a demand for everfaster locomotives that could haul greater loads than their predecessors. Here John Walter outlines the fascinating history of steam railway…

This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behaviour, recreating one of the most famous episodes in which crowds…