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Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s
Stanley Nelson · Louisiana State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building... |
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Femen
Galia Ackerman · Polity Press
Pages: 186
Format: Print book
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'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings flaunted on their... |
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Trials of passion : crimes committed in the name of love and madness
Lisa Appignanesi · Pegasus Crime
Pages: 434
Format: eBook
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"Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial" --"A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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Tank: The Definitive Visual History of Armored Vehicles
Dk. · DK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A visual history of armored vehicles, from the early tanks of World War I to present-day models, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.Showcasing the most famous military fighting machines, Tank combines comprehensive photographic spreads with in-depth histories of key manufacturers... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have... |
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA · Liveright
Pages: 640
Format: eBook
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An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old... |
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Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa
Steven L Robins · Penguin Books
Pages: 314
Format: Print book
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As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room. Only later did he learn that the women were his father s mother and sisters, photographed in Berlin in 1937, before they... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit. In his acclaimed... |
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The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
Leanda de Lisle · PublicAffairs
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times bestselling author comes the tragic story of Charles I, his devoted and resilient French queen, England's civil war, and the trial for his life.Barely forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself, split between... |
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