From their early hits of the 1960s (""I Can't Explain"" and ""My Generation"") through the ambitious concept works (""Tommy"", ""Lifehouse"", ""Quadrophenia"") to their later successes, this work encompasses the entire range of The Who's music. It contains a discography of the available CDs and an appendix of Who songs with relevant recording information.

Documents the unfamiliar and distant history of one of the world's most well-known holiday songs. The surprising history of the 'Twelve Days of Christmas' is inextricably linked to the earliest celebrations of Christmas, a festival that was suppressed by the Church itself.

Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous academic disciplines, and cover topics such as the role of globalization in the formation of superhero narratives, the shifting nature of masculinity and femininity in the superhero world and the state of the genre today.

With a focus on counterinsurgency, this book is the first to look at the breadth of military operations in Yusifiyah, Iraq, and analyze the methods the US Army 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry ("Polar Bears") employed. It is a story not of those who fought in the Triangle of Death, but of how they fought.

A comprehensive record of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African American armored unit to enter combat. This work recounts the events that in 1978-33 years after the end of World War II - led to the 761st Tank Battalion's receiving a Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a unit can receive.

Studies the last years of the life and career of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946). It covers his marriages, alcoholism, and involvement with the Nazis, and analyses 45 of his match and tournament games in Spain and Portugal from 1943 to 1946, and 100 other late exhibition games.

A history of ""the green fairy"", this title presents a study of absinthe?s use and abuse; an exploration of the tremendous social problems (not unlike the cocaine problems of this century) it caused during the 19th century; and an examination of the extent to which the lives of talented young writers and artists became caught up in the craze.

Adolf Hitler had promised a classless military and civilian Fatherland even before he became chancellor. He had been covertly destroying the historic officer class in Germany long before Stalingrad. This book tells the story of the disappearance of Germany's officer class, and for a time, its nobility and civilian leadership; all of which has become part of Hitler's legacy.