This definitive English-language work on the 105-day war between Finland and Stalin's Soviet Union during the winter of 1939-1940 details the successful resistance of the Finnish forces against the massive Red Army.
Evocative and moving, this fascinating book is a humbling account of man at his most intrepid and nature at its most indomitable.
Deployed with immersive detail and haunting observations, Gabriel Urza's novella is a heartbreaking examination of adolescence as it collides with the ephemeral nature of time and mortality.
In this highly original work focusing on silicosis or miners' phthisis Elaine Katz deals with the lives of ordinary working people, explores the extent to which the Randlords who owned...
This is a history of tuberculosis as a whole, including its social, artistic and human impact. Dormandy's graphic account for a cure is accompanied by a description of its complex natural history.
The White Death
The day after Christmas 1969, five robust young men set out to climb the imposing north face of Mount Cleveland in Glacier National Park. One of the highest vertical walls...