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The Navy SEAL Art of War: Leadership Lessons from the World's Most Elite Fighting Force

Rob Roy · Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

In a groundbreaking, narrative-driven book for businesses, managers (and those who aspire to the managerial ranks), and entrepreneurs, a veteran Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer shows how the skills that enable SEAL teams to achieve the impossible in the battlefield can help business executives...

The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy

Ed Conway · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant narrative history of the most colorful and important economic summit in historyheld during the height of World War II. The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all too familiar. But the meeting at Bretton Woods in 1944 was different. It was the only...

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Annie Jacobsen · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These...

Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

Nick Lloyd · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

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...

A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England

Gordon Corrigan · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The glory and tragedy of the Hundred Years War is revealed in a new historical narrative, bringing Henry V, the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc to fresh and vivid lifeIn this captivating new history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle...

House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

Michael Gross · Atria Books
Pages: 394
Format: Hardcover

In real estate-obsessed New York, no new building has captured the city's imagination - or as many of its richest residents - as Fifteen Central Park West. In House of Outrageous Fortune, America's foremost chronicler of the upper crust, journalist and bestselling author Michael...

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