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When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day - the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World War II.. D-Day is one of history's...

Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever

Rachel Lance - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Code Girls, who want stories about the tech behind military successes and the maverick groups that generate historic innovations This is the previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers - men and women - who exposed...

The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors - the last documented...

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon - Harper Select
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December...

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."...

History Lover's Guide to Cincinnati, A (History & Guide)

Robert Schrage - The History Press
Format: Paperback

A tour of the Queen City's rich heritage One of the oldest cities in the Midwest, Cincinnati has history in its bones. In the 1800s, the city was often styled the "Paris of America" due in part to ambitious architectural projects like the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel, and city...

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