Back History | October Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  History  
Northmen: The Viking Saga AD 793-1241

John Haywood · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings -- a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A comprehensive biography of Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the presidential election campaign. Trump Revealed will be reported by a team of award-winning Washington Post journalists and co-authored by investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure

John Otis · William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

“Truth be told, they were mostly in it for the money” On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors on a recon patrol crash-landed in the jungle-covered mountains of Colombia. Within minutes, FARC guerrillas swarmed the wreckage and killed the American...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940

Lloyd Clark · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In the spring of 1940, the Germans launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology to achieve in just six weeks what their fathers had failed to achieve in all four years of the First World...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

Williamson Murray · Princeton University Press
Pages: 616
Format: Print book

The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

Derek W Beck · Sourcebooks
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life

Allyson Hobbs · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Second Amendment: A Biography

Michael Waldman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover

By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese...
Read More check catalog
 
 
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804

Alan Taylor · W W Norton
Pages: 736
Format: Print book

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous...
Read More check catalog