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  • Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy

    How War and Hubris Determined the Rise and Fall of the French Empire

    by William Nester ...
    A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, however, are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and Napoleon is no exception. After all, conquerors are accustomed to imposing rather than negotiating terms. For Napoleon, however, the arts of war and diplomacy meshed. Napoleon ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny

    One of History’s Most Feared Dictators

    by William Nester ...
    Explores how Stalin’s regime exemplified authoritarian power, its methods, and enduring global influence.Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny examines authoritarian rule, revealing how tyrants sustain power through a mix of comfort, terror, love, and fear, often convincing their subjects of their divine purpose. Such leaders build systems of loyalists and subservient institutions, enabling ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Art of Leadership

    Battling the Great Depression and the Axis Powers

    by William Nester ...
    Scholar William Nester explores Franklin D. Roosevelt's character, personality, and presidential power. After their independence and civil wars, Americans never faced a greater threat than the sixteen years of global depression followed by global war from 1929 to 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president for the last dozen of those years, during which he led the nation first to alleviate ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Epic History of the American West

    From the First Peoples to the Present

    by William Nester ...
    Examines the American West's complex legacy, blending traditional and revisionist perspectives on its myths, conflicts, and injustices.The American West evokes powerful imagery—warriors on horseback, cowboys in saloons, and pioneers in wagons heading westward. It symbolizes freedom, reinvention, and the American Dream. However, this idealized image obscures the complex, often violent history of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adolf Hitler and the Art of Tyranny

    Nazi Germany’s Infamous Leader

    by William Nester ...
    A detailed analysis of Adolf Hitler’s rise, ideology, tyranny, and the devastating consequences of his rule in Europe.Adolf Hitler may be history’s most notorious tyrant. Surely no one’s name is more often evoked to epitomize evil and the deliberate infliction of suffering on vulnerable individuals and groups?Through exceptional will and luck Hitler struggled up through the ranks of political ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France

    by William R. Nester ...
    The French and Indian War was the world’s first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies in the Caribbean, India, and West Africa. In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester explains how and why the French ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • America's Unending Civil War

    The Enduring Conflict from Jamestown through to Recent Elections

    by William Nester ...
    Explores the Civil War’s related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation’s history.The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war’s issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the first settlement and will persist until the end of time. The war itself was an Iliad of brilliant ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • General George S. Patton and the Art of Leadership

    One of America’s Greatest Ever Generals

    by William Nester ...
    “Nester brings out clearly the features of Patton’s buoyant dynamic leadership… an important addition to the stock of modern military biographies.” – The NYMAS ReviewFor General George S. Patton, “Leadership is the thing that wins battles. I have it—but I’ll be damned if I can define it. Probably it consists in knowing what you want to do and then doing it and getting mad if anyone steps in the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jeffersonian vision, 1801–1815

    The Art of American Power During the Early Republic

    by William Nester ...
    The Jeffersonian Vision, 1801–1815 reveals how the nation's leaders understood and asserted power during those crucial years between Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the third president and the firing of the last shots at the battle of New Orleans. Seeking to overcome the bitter political animosities that had plagued the years leading up to his presidency, Jefferson declared in his inaugural ... Read more

    $41.23 CAD

  • The Coalitions Against Napoleon

    How British Money, Manufacturing and Military Power Forged the Alliances that Achieved Victory

    by William Nester ...
    Britain alone could not hope to defeat the might of Napoleonic France which, through enforced conscription, had become a nation in arms. But British leaders had a long history of forging alliances to counter their rivals and when revolution ravaged France in 1793 and a levée en masse raised a huge patriotic army, it was through a coalition of monarchies that French ambitions were restrained – a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hamiltonian Vision, 1789–1800: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic

    by William Nester ...
    From 1789 to 1800, the Federalist and Republican parties held opposing visions for America’s future. Led by Alexander Hamilton, the Federalists sought to establish a strong central government that would lead an American commercial, financial, technological, industrial, and military revolution, and thus propel the United States into the ranks of the world’s great powers. Thomas Jefferson and the ... Read more

    $41.23 CAD

  • World of War

    A History of American Warfare from Jamestown to the War on Terror

    by William Nester ...
    World of War is an epic journey through America’s array of wars for diverse reasons with diverse results over the course of its existence. It reveals the crucial effects of brilliant, mediocre, and dismal military and civilian leaders; the dynamic among America’s expanding economic power, changing technologies, and the types and settings of its wars; and the human, financial, and moral costs to ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD