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The Sicily campaign had huge ramifications and it was absolutely crucial to the Allied effort in the war for several reasons: it was the vital gateway to confronting Nazi Germany on European soil; it was the first collaborative campaign between the US and UK on equal footing, after which the military coalition became closely coordinated; it largely knocked Italy, a key Nazi ally, out of the war; the invasion was a critical learning experience prior to the D-Day invasion eleven months later. The story is incredibly dramatic, from the longest amphibious landing in history to pitched battles on land and sea and in the air, to secret deals with the Mafia. The 38-day Sicily campaign is an underpublished area of World War II history, despite its great importance. The last big book on Sicily alone was a Carlo D’Este’s Bitter Victory , published originally in 1988 and reissued in paperback in 2008. The Day of Battle , by Rick Atkinson, also published 12 years ago in 2008 and part of his WWII trilogy, covers the Sicily campaign and the campaign for Italy; the crucial 38 days in Sicily are a small part of it. Much new research on the Sicily campaign has emerged in the last decade and James Holland has undertaken more on-the-ground research in Sicily than any historian, uncovering documents and records nobody else has had access to. Surprising new details include the arrangement the Allies made with the Mafia, about which Holland writes: “I’ve made some connections that I don’t think anyone else has spotted.” James Holland is a rising star among military and WWII historians. His great skills lie in narrating the big picture through the experiences of those who lived through events, leaders and rank-and-file on all sides; and in always incorporating the logistical side of warfare into the battles themselves. He is a superb storyteller and riveting speaker. We have sold more than 110,000 copies of Holland’s books in all formats, and each of his last three books has been his bestselling title. Holland’s most recent Normandy ‘44 was named an Amazon Best History Book of the Year So Far and was one of the bestselling of all the 30-odd D-Day books published in conjunction with the anniversary with almost 25,000 copies sold in hardcover. Normandy ’44 , Big Week , The Rise of Germany , and The Allies Strike Back were all main selections of Military History Book Club. Holland is a house author, with two more books under contract, and his following in the US grows with each book. He has an open invitation to speak at the World War II Museum in New Orleans and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library in Chicago, among other venues. He gets speaking invitations in the US frequently. Holland has established a documentary film company, and his first production is a three-part film tied to Normandy ’44 , largely narrated by Holland on location in Normandy. It will come out on Amazon Prime on May 14, in time for the paperback publication. His second documentary, now in the works, is tied to Sicily ’43 , and will be ready to air on Amazon Prime in conjunction with the book’s publication. Holland’s regular podcast has now hit more than 1.5 million downloads, with 150,000 in the US—a number that is growing fast. It’s raising his profile rapidly. Holland directs the popular Chalke Valley History Festival every summer in the UK.

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Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning. His most incisive and enduring observations are collected here on subjects ranging from political and economic history to morals, art, education, war, and the American colonies. Throughout, notes an admirer in the introduction, “his writing is blessedly free of that use of jargon (and mathematics) that characterizes most of the modern materials in economics. His ideas are expressed in a lucid, straightforward manner that makes them accessible to all.” Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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Gershom Carmichael (1672–1729) was the first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, preceding Hutcheson, Smith, and Reid. He defended a strong theory of rights and drew attention to Grotius, Pufendorf, and Locke.James Moore is Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal.Michael Silverthorne is Honorary University Fellow in the School of Classics at the University of Exeter. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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My Thoughts provides a unique window into the mind of one of the undisputed pioneers of modern thought, the author of the 1748 classic, The Spirit of the Laws. From the publication in 1721 of his first masterpiece, Persian Letters, until his death in 1755, Montesquieu maintained notebooks in which he wrote and dictated ideas on a wide variety of topics. Some of the contents are early drafts of passages that Montesquieu eventually placed in his published works; others are outlines or early versions of projected works that were ultimately lost, unfinished, or abandoned. These notebooks provide important insights into his views on a broad range of topics, including morality, religion, history, law, economics, finance, science, art, and constitutional liberty.Montesquieu called these notebooks Mes Pensées (My Thoughts), and they appear in their entirety in English for the first time in this Liberty Fund edition.Editor and translator Henry C. Clark provides readers with translations of most of the footnotes contained in the 1991 French edition by Louis Desgraves, while adding new notes, a bibliography, and other aids to understanding the text and translation. These features provide the frame for a revealing portrait of one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth century.Henry C. Clark is a Visiting Professor in the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College. He has written two books and numerous articles, mainly on the French and Scottish Enlightenments.Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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Grotius’s The Truth of the Christian Religion was first published in Leiden in 1627 in Latin. Written in plain and direct language for his countrymen, this short work aimed to show those who would encounter pagans, Muslims, and Jews that the Christian religion was the true revealed religion. In addition to “fortifying” the beliefs of his fellow Christians, the treatise intended to convince non-Christians of “the reasonableness of believing and embracing the Christian Religion above any other.”Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) was a lawyer and legal theorist, diplomat and political philosopher, ecumenical activist and theologian.Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy and Department Head at King’s College London. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to predominate in the North and the South by 1830.To Webster, the Union was the indivisible expression of one nation of people. To Hayne, the Union was the voluntary compact among sovereign states. The Webster-Hayne Debate consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830.Herman Belz is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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Christian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England.First published in 1688, Thomasius’s Institutiones jurisprudentiae divinae (Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence) attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural and revealed law and to emphasize that human reason was able to know the precepts of natural law without the aid of Scripture. Thomasius also argued that his orthodox Lutheran opponents had failed to understand this distinction and thereby had confused reason and Scripture.This volume also contains significant selections from his Fundamenta juris naturae et gentium(Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations), published in 1705. In Foundations Thomasius significantly revised the theory he had put forward in the Institutes, and much of the Foundations therefore is a paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on his earlier ideas.Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a German philosopher and legal theorist.Thomas Ahnert is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh.Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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The great eighteenth-century theorist of international law Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was a key figure in sustaining the practical and theoretical influence of natural jurisprudence through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Coming toward the end of the period when the discourse of natural law was dominant in European political theory, Vattel’s contribution is cited as a major source of contemporary wisdom on questions of international law in the American Revolution and even by opponents of revolution, such as Cardinal Consalvi, at the Congress of Vienna of 1815.The significance of The Law of Nations resides in its distillation from natural law of an apt model for international conduct of state affairs that carried conviction in both the Old Regime and the new political order of 1789–1815.The Liberty Fund edition is based on the anonymous English translation of 1797, which includes Vattel’s notes for the second French edition (posthumous, 1773).Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was a Swiss philosopher and jurist in the service of Saxony.Béla Kapossy is Professeur Suppléant of History at the University of Lausanne.Richard Whatmore is a Reader in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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David Ramsay’s History of the American Revolution appeared in 1789 during an enthusiastic celebration of nationhood. It is the first American national history written by an American revolutionary and printed in America.Ramsay, a well-known Federalist, was an active participant in many of the events of the period and a member of the Continental Congress from South Carolina.This is a comprehensive and exciting narrative of the events and ideas of the American Revolution (from the outbreak of turbulence in the 1760s to the onset of Washington’s administration) and an ardent Federalist defense of the Constitution of 1787.This is the first modern edition of the work, based on the original and authorized 1789 version.Lester H. Cohen taught history and American Studies at Purdue University. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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The Theory of Money and Credit integrated monetary theory into the main body of economic analysis for the first time, providing fresh, new insights into the nature of money and its role in the economy and bringing Mises into the front rank of European economists.The Theory of Money and Credit also presented a new monetary theory of the trade cycle, which, under further development by Mises’s student Nobel Laureate F. A. Hayek, came to challenge all previous trade-cycle theories.Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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