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Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
Jack J Hersch · Frontline Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruellest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen's nearby sub-camp, Gusen,... |
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The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record
Jonathan Scott · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story behind the mission, music, and message of NASA's Voyager Golden Record--humanity's message to the stars. In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. They... |
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Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
PATRICK SPERO · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution.In 1763, the Seven Years' War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing... |
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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... |
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They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
James Verini · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"They Will Have to Die Now is the story of what happened after most Americans stopped paying attention to Iraq ... It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades." -- George Packer, author of Our Man and The Assassins' Gate James Verini... |
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
GARY KRIST · Crown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid account of the creation of modern Los Angeles, a city born from the fantasies of strong-willed visionaries, from bestselling author and masterful storyteller Gary Krist. Now in paperback.
Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California was sleepy semi-desert... |
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Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century
Joachim Kalka · New York Review Books
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
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A one-of-a-kind exploration of the 19th century that ties the time period to our own through essays on a variety of topics in music, film, literature, and art.In this sparkling essay collection, Joachim Kalka delves into the mythos of the nineteenth century, exploring our fascination with... |
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Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women's Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950–1997
Janet Allured · The University of Georgia Press
Pages: 348
Format: Print book
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Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of activism that existed elsewhere. In "Remapping Second-Wave Feminism, " Janet Allured attempts to reshape the national narrative by focusing... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller! Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding... |
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The Great Halifax Explosion
JOHN U BACON · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped... |
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Jackson, 1964 : and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 275
Format: Print book : English : First edition
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present
In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement... |
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