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Company confessions : the cia, secrecy and memoir writing
Christopher R Moran · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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"A fascinating, readable work. -Robert Wallace, coauthor of" Spycraft "and" The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception"Spies are supposed to keep quiet, never betraying their agents or discussing their operations. Somehow, this doesn t apply to the CIA, whose... |
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Steven Pressfield · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory... |
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Dan L Flores · Basic Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. As soon as Americans... |
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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
Douglas Grindle · Potomac Books
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
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Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed to materialize and the United States headed for the exit. By placing the reader at the heart... |
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
Peter McPhee · Yale University Press
Pages: 488
Format: Print book
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The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century... |
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Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance
Antony Beevor · Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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The bestselling author of Stalingrad and D-Day vividly reconstructs the epic WWII struggle for Crete – reissued with a new introduction.Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British,... |
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The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940
Frederick Brown · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 345
Format: Print book
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From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France ("Masterful history" - Henry Kissinger), Zola ("Magnificent" - The New Yorker), and Flaubert ("Impeccable" - James Wood, cover, The New York Times Book Review) - a brilliant... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves · Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Pages: 342
Format: Print book
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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Birth of Photography
Brian Coe · Taplinger Pub. Co.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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4to. 144 pp, introduction and picture credits, 1. The Birth of Photography; 2. The First Practical Process; 3. The Origins of Modern Photoraphy; 4. Wet-Plate Photography; 5. The Gelatin Dry Plate; 6. The Photoraphy of Action; 7. The First Kodak Camera; 8. The Spread of Popular Photography;... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2014 Kate Tuttles pickNPR, Staff Pick The Dark Side, Science and Society Eye Opening Reads CategoriesAmazon, Best Books of 2014 Nonfiction Imagine that a terrorist... |
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The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich
Lara Feigel · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 443
Format: Print book
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When Germany surrendered in May 1945 it was a nation reduced to rubble. Immediately, America, Britain, Soviet Russia, and France set about rebuilding in their zones of occupation. Most urgent were physical needs--food, water, and sanitation--but from the start the Allies were also anxious... |
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Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror
Jorg Baberowski · Yale University Press
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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German scholar Jorg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate... |
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