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My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Joseph Madison Beck · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 218
Format: Print book
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The story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories -- when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended... |
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through... |
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
Steve Twomey · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 365
Format: Print book
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A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible... |
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The Saudi Terror Machine: The Truth About Radical Islam and Saudi Arabia Revealed
Pierre Conesa · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The untouched political status of Saudi Arabia among the world's nations constitutes a strange black hole in the analysis of radicalism that affects Islam and the Middle East today. Why has Salafism, the most intolerant and sectarian movement of Islam, become so prevalent throughout... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous... |
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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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Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation
Cate Malek · McSweeney's; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon... |
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All For Love: A Study in Soap Opera
Peter Buckman · Salem House
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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First printing. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Small bumps to the book's corners. The dust jacket is bumped at the corners and rubbed at the head and heel of its spine. Mild dust soiling to the panels. |
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Homes: A Refugee Story
Abu Bakr al Rabeeah · Freehand Books
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria -- just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque... |
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Stalag Luft III: An Official History of the POW Camp of the Great Escape
Frontline Books · Naval Institute Press
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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Opened in March 1942 to house captured Allied airmen, particularly officers, Stammlager Luft III at Sagan was built to make escape -- especially tunneling -- particularly difficult. This did not stop the prisoners who dug through more than one hundred yards of loose sand, enabling seventy-six... |
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Recipes for Victory: Great War Food from the Front and Kitchens Back Home in Canada
Elizabeth Baird · Whitecap Books
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Elizabeth Baird and Bridget Wranich have created an absorbing history of wartime meals, both in the military -- on the front, in the trenches, and at the command posts -- and at home. Lavishly illustrated, and accompanied by over 70 recipes, the text explores a wide range of topics, including... |
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Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia
Stephan Orth · Greystone Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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"Journalist Orth delivers a jaunty description of his travels...[that] armchair travelers will enjoy." - Publishers Weekly "Funny, insightful, and mind-bendingly entertaining. Stephan Orth is a fearless and fabulous tour guide to the real Russia and its people." - Lisa... |
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