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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
Roger Crowley · Random House
Format: Book
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The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year... |
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Ghost Empire: A Journey to the Legendary Constantinople
Richard Fidler · Pegasus Books
Pages: 520
Format: Book
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"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." -- Simon WinchesterGhost Empire is a rare treasure -- an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated... |
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Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Matthew Brzezinski · Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
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Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw... |
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Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World
John Man · William Morrow Paperbacks; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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"I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." - John Fusco, Creator of the Netflix original... |
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Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
Mark Adams · Dutton Books
Format: Book
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"Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor, science, and lore to find a place that, in the end, seems startlingly real indeed." -Hampton Sides "Infused with humor and pop culture references, Adams makes what could have been... |
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
Nisid Hajari · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Book
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A few bloody months in South Asia during the summer of 1947 explain the world that troubles us today. Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British... |
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The Assassination of Hole in the Day
Anton Treuer · Borealis Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 306
Format: Book
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome... |
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
Elaine Showalter · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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The first full biography of Julia Ward Howe - the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and an early and powerful feminist pioneer - a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.
Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER · Riverhead Books
Pages: 528
Format: Book
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has... |
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The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
Emma Rothschild · Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Pages: 496
Format: Book
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They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven... |
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The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust
Michael Hirsh · Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author's interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated... |
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The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
William Geroux · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Book
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"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."
- Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S.... |
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Upstairs & Downstairs: The Illustrated Guide to the Real World of Downton Abbey
Sarah Warwick · Carlton Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era Starting with the servants hard at work while the family is still abed and culminating in a lavish dinner party Upstairs amp Downstairs lifts the curtain... |
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