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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS · Viking
Pages: 1088
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston... |
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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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It's Up to the Women
Eleanor Roosevelt · Nation Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women particularly to do their part-cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking... |
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
MASHA GESSEN · Columbia Global Reports
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past -- and present. The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning · Knopf
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root... |
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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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A Reader's Guide to George Orwell
Jeffrey Meyers · Littlefield Adams
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Analyses of Orwell's writings, from his early essays to 1984, provide insight into his treatment of politics and poverty and his imagery of oppression |
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Korean War: A History From Beginning to End
Hourly History · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 50
Format: Paperback
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Korean War The Korean War, which began in 1950 and ended in 1953, is not considered one of the major wars of the twentieth century. However, in reality, it was profoundly impactful on global history. As an early crisis of the Cold War, it set important precedents for how conflicts would... |
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Giles Tremlett · Bloomsbury
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable... |
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Elena Favilli · Timbuktu Labs
Pages: 212
Format: Print book
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"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" is a children's book packed with 100 BEDTIME STORIES about the life of 100 EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 FEMALE ARTISTS from all over the world. Each woman's story is written in the style of a fairy... |
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American Battles & Campaigns: A Chronicle from 1622-2010
Chris McNab · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Raids and sieges; trench warfare and air campaigns; guerrilla warfare, naval engagements, and colonial wars -- American Battles & Campaigns covers every major campaign and battle fought in North America or by United States' forces overseas, from the Pequot War of 1634 to the recent... |
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Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
Tony Perrottet · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century's most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara;... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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