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Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
Bruce Gamble · Presidio
Pages: 452
Format: Print book
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Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington. In 1936, Boyington became an aviation cadet and earned the "wings of gold" of a naval aviator. After only a short period on active duty, however, he was "encouraged"... |
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The Library Book
SUSAN ORLEAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved... |
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ALONE: Orphaned on the Ocean
Hester Rumberg · Titletown Publishing, LLC; 1 edition
Format: Kindle Edition
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Terry Jo Duperrault was 11 when her family was murdered at sea aboard a chartered sailboat off the coast of Florida. She jumped overboard just in time to escape. Surviving four days on a cork float in the middle of the ocean, Terry Jo's rescue pictures graced LIFE Magazine soon after she was found.... |
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STRANGLING THE CONFEDERACY: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War
Kevin Dougherty · Casemate; First Edition first Printing edition
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A selection of the Military Book ClubWhile the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign-dubbed "Anaconda"-that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce,... |
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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
Douglas Grindle · Potomac Books
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
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Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed to materialize and the United States headed for the exit. By placing the reader at the heart... |
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Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution
Richard M. Ketchum · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From "the finest historian of the American Revolution" comes the definitive account of the battle and unlikely triumph that led to American independence (Douglas Brinkley) In 1780, George Washington's army lay idle for want of supplies, food, and money. All hope seemed lost... |
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
Ian W. Toll · W. W. Norton; First Edition edition
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnipotent British Navy.Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would... |
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Western Front
Richard Holmes · TV Books; First edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Richard Holmes, author of the popular books War Walks and War Walks II, turns his attention to the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. Of the nine million British and Dominion soldiers who enlisted during the First World War, the majority... |
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The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History
Dayton Duncan · Chronicle Books
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting chronicle, which accompanies a documentary to be broadcast on PBS in the fall, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen... |
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Thomas J. Sugrue · Random House; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding... |
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The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949
Jim Baggott · Pegasus; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to build the first atomic weapons.Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's... |
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The Battle of Waterloo
Jeremy Black · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo... |
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