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The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
Stephen Harding · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving... |
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American epic : when music gave america her voice.
Elijah Wald · Touchstone
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music - blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American - without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.Jack... |
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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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The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
INGRID ROWLAND · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Swerve and How to Live, this vivid biography reveals how a Renaissance scholar reshaped the visual world.A narrative of intrigue and gossip, deceit and genius, and colorful artistic rivalry, The Collector of Lives presents a lively and inviting introduction to a seminal... |
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Eric Bogosian · Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper... |
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First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit
Patrick K. O'Donnell · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men - among them a dentist, a Hollywood movie star, an archaeologist, California surfers, and even former enemies of the Allies - united to form an exceptional unit that would forge the capabilities of the Navy's Sea, Air, and Land... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ARTHUR PH D HERMAN · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Though they were men of very different backgrounds and experiences, Herman reveals how Wilson and Lenin were very much... |
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The Illustrated Directory of American Cars
Bruce Wexler · Chartwell Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Everything that is great about the American automobile is presented in this full color, beautifully depicted guide. It includes all of your favorite American models; Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, GMC, Jeep, Lincoln, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pontiac, and many more. There is a car catalogued... |
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
ELIZABETH ROSNER · Counterpoint
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"Survivor Café takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer As firsthand... |
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The Italians of Niagara Falls, Volume III
Michelle Ann Kratts · Michelle Kratts
Pages: 223
Format: Print book
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"The Italians of Niagara Falls, Volume III" is the third installment in a series of stories concerning the Italian families who made Niagara Falls, New York, their home. |
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Dan Barry · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice... |
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