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My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Andrew Carroll · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters, a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, centered on an intimate portrait of General Pershing, drawing on a rich trove of newly uncovered letters Based on an astonishing collection of letters... |
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
John Feinstein · Anchor
Format: eBook
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From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball“No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they’re pitching or hitting in Triple-A.” —Chris Schwinden, Triple-A pitcher“If you don’t... |
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Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs
Laurel Braitman · PublicAffairs
Format: Kindle Edition
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From Barnes & NobleA recent scientific study by international researchers indicated that dogs may have been domesticated as far back as 32,000 years ago. Cats became human pets much more recently, but even these relative newcomers are now generally regarded as family members or surrogate... |
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Abe and Fido
Matthew Algeo · Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2015.
Format: eBook
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In early 1861, as he prepared to leave his home in Springfield, Illinois, to move into the White House, Abraham Lincoln faced many momentous tasks, but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons, Willie and Tad, that the family's beloved pet dog, Fido, would not be accompanying... |
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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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Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt
Philip Walker · Oxford University Press
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
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T. E. Lawrence became world-famous as "Lawrence of Arabia" after helping Sherif Hussein of Mecca gain independence from Turkey during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. His achievements, however, would have been impossible without the unsung efforts of a forgotten band of fellow officers... |
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing... |
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig Nelson · Scribner
Pages: 532
Format: Print book
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Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.The America we live in today was born, not on July... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first... |
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari · Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition
Format: Kindle Edition
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"January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what... |
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Harold Holzer · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize “Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed... |
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