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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
Tim Townsend · HarperCollins
Pages: 388
Format: Hardcover
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Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation, and the essence... |
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The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
Thomas E. Ricks · Penguin Press HC, The; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq History has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—and less kind to the generals... |
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Assault on Juno
Mark Zuehlke · Raven Books
Pages: 145
Format: Book
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Dawn, June 6, 1944. Off the Normandy coast 6,500 ships carry 150,000 Allied troops. This is D-Day, the long-awaited Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe. The Allies will storm five beaches. One is code-named Juno Beach. Here, 14,500 Canadians will land on a five-mile stretch of sand... |
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The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
David Laskin · Viking; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish familyIn tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century.... |
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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated
Jack E. Levin · Threshold Editions
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."Long before his conservative manifesto Liberty and Tyranny became a #1 New York Times bestseller, Mark... |
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Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Trevor Royle · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A vigorous and authoritative history of last major battle fought between Scottish and English forces, ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire. The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last... |
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WAR
Sebastian Junger · Twelve
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) . Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic... |
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson · Pantheon Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing... |
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Adam Hochschild · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics,... |
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Tank: 100 Years of the World's Most Important Armored Military Vehicle
Michael E. Haskew · Zenith Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Explore the 100-year evolution of the tank and its role on the battlefield, from World War I to today's armored fighting vehicles.From the Greek phalanx to Roman siege engines, plans by Leonardo da Vinci, and the wondrous imagination of H. G. Wells, the idea of the armored fighting... |
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A 2015 Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb's enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book's biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks... |
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