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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Tom Cotton · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon... |
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War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed.Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day... |
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Brenda Wineapple · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated... |
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Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin · Threshold Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust... |
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature's Army at Work
Jerry Apps · Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Between 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees, cutting trails, and reversing the effects of soil erosion. In his latest book, acclaimed... |
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The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
Ian Kershaw · Viking
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and BackAfter the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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The Heartland: An American History
Kristin L. Hoganson · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A history of a quintessentially American place - the rural and small town heartland -- that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area... |
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff · Harper
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La delivers his most compelling and vital work yet - a spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative, years in the making, that weaves together myriad stories to create the definitive portrait of 9/11.In... |
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As... |
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Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
Peter Moore · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand... |
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
Alex Kershaw · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions.... |
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
William Geroux · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy... |
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