Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The...

Lowell Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia is a captivating chronicle of one of the most legendary figures of World War I, T.E. Lawrence, famously known as "Lawrence of Arabia." Written by the journalist and broadcaster who helped immortalize Lawrence's exploits, this book offers a thrilling firsthand account of the Arab Revolt and Lawrence's extraordinary role in it. Thomas vividly recounts his experiences traveling through the deserts of the Middle...

Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri-across two thousand miles of mountains, deserts,...

Exciting, action-packed account of the expedition to chart the vast unknown lands of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase - a perilous journey made by undaunted men who faced hostile Indians, prairie fires, floods, heat and thirst, illness, famine, sub-zero weather, and other perils. "Absorbing and inspirational from start to finish." - New York Times Book Review.