For fifty years, Pamela Kirrage longed to unlock the secrets of her husband's encrypted war diary. She was on the verge of giving up when she at last found a mathematician who became as obsessed with learning the secrets of the diary as...

"Black Watch: History of the Royal Highland Regiment" von Andro Linklater bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte des berühmten schottischen Regiments, das im 18. Jahrhundert gegründet wurde. Das Buch beleuchtet die Ursprünge...

A thought-provoking history of America's system of measurement explains how, following the American Revolution, a single system of weights and measures, the American Customary System, was developed in order to help survey and map out the...