'We have needed a one-volume history of Scotland for a long time, but it was worth waiting for Mrs Mitcheson's. Hers is a brilliant feat of compression, and into her 488 pages she has crammed more than anyone would have though possible, yet without any sense of strain. Nor does a single one of these pages, form the brilliant demographic description of Scotland with which she begins, to the stimulating discussion of Scottish nationalism with which she ends, give the impression of being taken from stock; on every subject and through every century she is fresh incisive, informative and enlightening. She has produced that rare thing, an original textbook...
The Dent Atlas of the Holocaust: The Complete History
The harrowing history of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is graphically portrayed in 316 highly detailed mapsand over 40 photographs. Extensive passages of text based on documentary evidence drawn from many sources add to the comprehensive treatment Gilbert gives the subject.
Kansas Paper Money: An Illustrated History, 1854-1935
Kansas had only a few years in which its bankers and merchants issued the now-obsolete notes that have become such popular - and rare - collector's items. This heavily illustrated history details Kansas paper bank notes and scrip through 1935.
Isami's House - Three Centuries of a Japanese Family
In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600s.
