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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
Tim Judah · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman · Random House
Pages: 937
Format: Print book
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery, and Arsenic
Kate Colquhoun · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arse-nic poisoning of her much older husband Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick The xCMaybrick MysteryxD had all the makings of a sensation a pretty flirtatious young girl resentful gossiping servants... |
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Rumrunners: Liquor Smugglers on America's Coasts, 1920-1933
J Anne Funderburg · McFarland & Company
Pages: 201
Format: Print book
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In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal--it was unconstitutional. Yet no legislation could end the demand for alcohol. Enterprising rumrunners worked to meet that demand with cunning, courage, machineguns and speedboats powered... |
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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 431
Format: Print book
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Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier... |
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Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel
Joshua Muravchik · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought and when... |
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At the Edge of the World: The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion
Jean-Vincent Blanchard · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey.An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded... |
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East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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In 2010, Philippe Sands was invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University in Ukraine, which he accepted with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century... |
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Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor
Stephen Harding · Da Capo Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book
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As the Pearl Harbor attack began, a U.S. cargo ship a thousand miles away in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean mysteriously vanished along with her crew. What happened, and why?On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American... |
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