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Custer: The Making of a Young General
Edward G. Longacre · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer:... |
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
DAVID D KIRKPATRICK · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times.In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social... |
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
ADAM TOOZE · Viking
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe the financial... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth,... |
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A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society
Francis I. · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations -- open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world -- now published... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict journalist C.J. Chivers follows the arcs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the experiences of those who fought them, as Stephen Ambrose did for the grunts of WWII, and Michael Herr's classic Dispatches did for Vietnam.Almost 2.5 million Americans... |
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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Bart Van Es · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood... |
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Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South
Courtney Hargrave · Convergent Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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THE TRUE EVENTS THAT INSPIRED THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund, and Usher, and produced by Robbie Brenner (Dallas Buyers Club) A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South.In... |
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History
ALLIE ROWBOTTOM · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor... |
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
RUBY LAL · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire.When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents' mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson's... |
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