History (Academic) Books

This 'History of Busoga' is a translation of the original work of Mr Y. K. Lubogo which was written in Luganda between 1921 and 1938. While considerable effort has been made to produce a readable English version, the objective of the translation is to preserve the content and style of the original...

From the start, immigrants- people who left their birthplace because they were unsatisfied and unwilling to settle for the condition from which they were born occupied the western hemisphere. Filled with hope, they were tugged by the prospect of a new beginning, the lure of freedom, and an...

Gurjars ( also known as Yuezhi by Chinese ) were the Tocharian-speaking inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, making them the easternmost speakers of Indo-European languages in antiquity. They had known a different nomenclature at different places and different time lines. Due to their native places...

The population of this beautiful country of ours was to start a new journey. Some with great expectations and others with fear in the heart. The benefits and problems that would arise from the new dispensation would become clearer much later and could only be evaluated in the future. There was...

The history of the Nung ethnic and autonomous territory of Hai-Ninh - Viet-nam.

This thesis explores how the initial defeat of the French army in June 1940 would eventually allow the Vichy French time to aid the Allies in the defeat of Germany. Subsequent request by Marshal Pétain for an armistice with Nazi Germany was followed by a collaboration with the Nazi regime with...

A historical study containing information on the pivotal role played by the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western pacific from World War II through 2010.

A 343 page reference containing facts compiled by naval historians on the combined naval operations of the Royal Australian Navy, Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, and United States Navy from 1991 to 2003.

Navy Medicine in Vietnam begins and ends with a humanitarian operation—the first, in 1954, after the French were defeated, when refugees fled to South Vietnam to escape from the communist regime in the North; and the second, in 1975, after the fall of Saigon and the final stage of America’s...

A narrative of Vietnam-era POWs on the time spent in captivity in the jungles of the South, or the jails of the North. This book describes their experiences - the similarities and the differences - and how the POWs coped with untreated wounds and other malaises, systematic torture, and boredom...