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Forgotten Fifteenth: The Daring Airmen Who Crippled Hitler's War Machine
Barrett Tillman · Regnery History; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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November 1943 - May 1945 - The U.S. Army Air Forces waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler's vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich's southern flank. Flying from southern Italy, far from the limelight enjoyed by the Eighth Air Force... |
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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
Pages: 382
Format: Print book |
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"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse
Robin Hutton · Regnery History
Format: Hardcover |
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New York Times Bestseller!From the racetrack to the battlefielddauntless, fearless, and exemplar of Semper Fishe was Reckless, pride of the Marines. A Mongolian mare who was bred to be a racehorse, Ah-Chim-Hai, or Flame-of-the-Morning, belonged to a young boy named Kim-Huk-Moon. In order... |
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Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
Benjamin Schwartz · Overlook Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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A nuclear weapon explodes in a major American city and no one can prove who is responsible. The devastation is horrifying, but even more alarming is the limited options available for the United States government to respond. What happens next? In Right of Boom, national security specialist... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves · Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Pages: 342
Format: Print book |
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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World War I in 100 Objects
Peter Doyle · Plume
Format: Hardcover |
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A dynamic social history commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of World War IGeneral readers and history buffs alike have made bestsellers of books like A History of the World in 100 Objects. In that tradition, this handsome commemorative volume gives a unique perspective on one of the most... |
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The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted. In The Occupiers,... |
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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Alexander Watson · Basic Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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For Germany and Austria-Hungary the First World War started with high hopes for a rapid, decisive outcome. Convinced that right was on their side and fearful of the enemies that encircled them, they threw themselves resolutely into battle. Yet, despite the initial halting of a brutal Russian... |
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