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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic... |
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Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
MARWAN HISHAM · One World
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian war from its inception to the present by a young man coming of age and finding his voice as a journalist, whose friends traveled divergent paths through the carnage. An intimate lens into the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation... |
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER · Doubleday
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
THOMAS MCKELVEY CLEAVER · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
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The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the 1st Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the United States... |
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Divided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy
Edward E Gordon · Prometheus Books
Pages: 461
Format: Hardcover
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In anticipation of the 75th anniversary of D-Day comes this fresh perspective on the Normandy invasion -- -the beginning of the end of World War II. The book highlights the conflicting egos, national rivalries, and professional abilities of the principal D-Day commanders who planned and executed... |
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A Little History of Economics
Niall Kishtainy · Yale University Press
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous... |
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