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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story
Matti Friedman · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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"Destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. . . A beautifully written account of a young Israeli soldier's experience. A stunning achievement." - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy It was one small... |
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In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
Jennifer S Uglow · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historianWe know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry,... |
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The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Mike Rapport · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War,... |
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The Longest Trail: Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics
Alvin M. Josephy Jr. · Vintage
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
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Alvin Josephy Jr.'s groundbreaking, popular books and essays advocated for a fair and true historical assessment of Native Americans, and set the course for modern Native American studies. This collection, which includes magazine articles, speeches, a white paper, and introductions... |
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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
Kate Williams · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life -- their friendship -- changed them forever. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually... |
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse
Piu Marie Eatwell · Head of Zeus
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled, and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation... |
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Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War
Kenneth A. Daigler · Georgetown University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that enabled the colonies to gain their independence. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors provides... |
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The Great Halifax Explosion
JOHN U BACON · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped... |
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Waiting for José: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
Harel Shapira · Princeton University Press
Format: Book
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They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen?... |
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Ohio Indian Trails
Frank N. Wilcox · Kent State Univ Pr; 3 edition
Format: Print book
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Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingo tribes great and small, loosely confederated or warring with each other, pushed ever westward by the advancing white settlements these were the native peoples of Ohio. They left behind little but their names, yet the trained... |
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How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust
Dan McMillan · Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question:... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
MALACHY TALLACK · Picador
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map.... |
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