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Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
Susan Williams · Public Affairs
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb - and to make sure nobody saw them doing itAlbert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's... |
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics' Top Book of 2016Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionOne of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head OnNPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016's Great ReadsSan Francisco Chronicle's Best... |
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
MASHA GESSEN · Columbia Global Reports
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past -- and present. The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag... |
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In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir
Patricia Gucci · Crown Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Book
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The gripping family drama and never-before-told love story surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could... |
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Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I
Nick Lloyd · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
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In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued - known as the Hundred Days Campaign - saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked... |
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising... |
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
Orlando Figes · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreamsIn this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian... |
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The Lost Cause: The Trials of Frank and Jesse James
James P. Muehlberger · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The True Story Behind the Legendary Outlaw Gang, a Civil War Vendetta, and the Forgotten Court Documents That Helped Seal Their FateOn a dreary December 7, 1869, two strangers entered the Daviess County Savings and Loan in Gallatin, Missouri. One of the men asked the cashier for change... |
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
John Sedgwick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between... |
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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
Simon Winder · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 551
Format: Hardcover
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A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores,... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George... |
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