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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776
Derek W Beck · Sourcebooks
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck... |
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Stonehenge: The Story of a Sacred Landscape
FRANCIS PRYOR · Pegasus Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated, evocative narrative of the nature and history of Stonehenge that places the enigmatic stone megaliths in a wider cultural context. Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure.... |
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Silence of war : an old marine in a young marine's war
Terry Mcgowan · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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With a Foreword by Bill O'Reilly, here is the incredible memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a Special Agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty.... |
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United States of Jihad: The Untold Story of Americans Fighting for Radical Islam
Peter Bergen · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans - born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere - have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight... |
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
ANNE APPLEBAUM · Doubleday
Pages: 461
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect... |
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A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq
Gerry Schumacher · Zenith Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,000 today) who guard supply convoys, train foreign soldiers, provide security for foreign... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel · Viking
Pages: 324
Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian,... |
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The American Revolution: A Visual History
Dk. · DK Publishing
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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The American Revolution will transport you back in time and onto the frontlines. This complete overview of the war brings all the action to life, from the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party to the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Paris.Beginning with the first stirrings... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS · Counterpoint
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
Dan Zak · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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On a tranquil summer night in July 2012, a trio of elderly peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the ''Fort Knox of Uranium,'' Y-12 was reputedly one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world, a bastion... |
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Grant
RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life
Barbara Boxer · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"One goal of this memoir is to inspire people to fight for change. It takes what I call the Art of Tough and I've had to do it all my life."---Senator Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning... |
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Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Cecelia Tichi · The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide... |
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Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
Heather Ann Thompson · Pantheon
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice - including information never released to the public - published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.On... |
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