David Stone

IMMIGRATION is the most important topic in America today and has a directly negative impact on your paycheck on Friday afternoon. Why is this so important? Because supporting all of those millions of illegal and uninvited guests has become very expensive. Who do you think pays for all of that cost? That would be you. It does not matter if you consider yourself to be a Republican or if you have voted exclusively Democratic all of your life. If you...

Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 precipitated a massive clash of arms that gave rise to destruction and suffering on an unprecedented scale. The outcome of this ruthless struggle on the Eastern Front was decisive for the course of the war in Europe. Yet the campaigns fought there still receive less attention than those fought by the Western Allies, and are less well understood. That is why this new survey of the Soviet Union during...

In Vienna for a top-secret meeting with ex-Mossad agent Issadore Galan, Micah Dalton senses that something is very wrong on the streets of the Ring District. Dalton's aggressive response to enemy surveillance makes him the target of a complex plot with the potential to shatter America's strategic alliances with the rest of the civilized world. Planned by an unknown foreign power and executed by a scarred Serbian killer known only as Smoke, the conspiracy...

While working in the Amazon basin a young man, John Sullivan Brooks, fresh out of college, arrived with dreams of finding lost cities, Mayan temples, and old civilizations. At first, he bought into the many stories and ideas, and he had plenty of people willing to sell their secrets, maps and directions to this eager young man. All he ever found were old myths, other people's dreams, and rocks, lots of rocks, so he gave up on those ideas. Twenty...

How were wars fought after 1945, and who fought them? Why did the United States invade Afghanistan, lose the war in Vietnam, and support authoritarian governments in South America? How do insurgent groups win wars against powerful, well-financed nation-states? What does the "McDonald's theory" have to do with peacekeeping? Why did the British, French, and Soviet Union empires collapse after World War II? How have new weapons and technologies reconfigured...

The 1980 Iran-Iraq War fundamentally changed geopolitics in the region; human costs aside, the conflict altered international relations in the 21st century. Delve into a three-way rivalry between Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia that eventually blossomed into war, and understand how the United States fit into the mix.

Finish the series by exploring America's nine-year war in Iraq, from the first Gulf War to the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. Start by exploring the ideology that drove the US invasion. Chart the rise of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and ISIS and conclude by examining why the United States could not bring democracy to Iraq.

Having explored so many volatile conflicts thus far, one question comes to mind: Why hasn't World War III happened yet? From the dawn of atomic power to the Cuban Missile Crisis, discover how nuclear weapons fundamentally changed the way that great powers engage with each other globally.

As war raged on across the globe, China had to contend with a civil war between Mao Zedong's Communists and Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party. Explore the war from its colonial roots to the establishment of the People's Republic of China and discover how the USSR and the United States became involved in the bloody conflict.

Take a step back from the chronology of World War II to think about how European countries occupied by Nazi Germany both collaborated with and resisted their occupiers. You'll look at heroic examples of resistance and espionage in Norway, the French resistance against Germany, and important partisan movements in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.