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Medieval Bridges of Middle England
Marshall G. Hall
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Throughout history, rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history, and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them. It is no coincidence that all four of the earliest... |
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The Diggers of Kapyong
Tom Gilling
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This is the story of Australia's 3RAR in the Korean War, culminating in the Battle of Kapyong in April 1951, where an Australian battalion held back an entire division of the Chinese army and prevented Seoul from being overrun - the only time Australians have fought Chinese troops. The focus... |
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The War of Words
Molly Guptill Manning
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From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff... |
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Dusty Booze
Aaron Goldfarb
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An entertaining journey into the booming world of vintage spirits, the quirky and intensely passionate "dusty hunters" who chase them, and the history they reveal, from an acclaimed author and journalist.
In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes... |
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Eros the Bittersweet
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson was born in Canada and now lives partly in Iceland. She is an acclaimed poet, essayist, translator, and classicist, and has won numerous awards, including a MacArthur, the PEN/Nabokov Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her books Autobiography... |
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Across the Airless Wilds
Earl Swift
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"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." -The Times (London)
A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions-distinguished by the use of the revolutionary... |
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Fallen Idols
Alex von Tunzelmann
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An Economist Best Book of the Year
In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers-and confronts-the past.
In 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium,... |
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Conquering the Pacific
Andrés Reséndez
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The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery-and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history
It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly... |
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Faster
Neal Bascomb
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Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler's fearsome Silver... |
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Liar's Circus
Carl Hoffman
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"A brilliant, riveting, funny, terrifying journey into the beating heart of Trumpland." -Liza Mundy, author of Code Girls
In this daring work of immersive journalism, based on hundreds of hours of reporting, Carl Hoffman journeys deep inside Donald Trump's rallies, seeking to understand... |
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