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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
Iain Ballantyne · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of the submarine's evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented.A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat -- originally derided and loathed in equal measure -- evolved... |
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Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
ADRIAN TINNISWOOD · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house.... |
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The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
David Gilmour · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to IndependenceWho of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary?... |
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Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
JOHN KEAHEY · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A travel narrative that focuses on Sicily's little-known regions, from the author of Seeking Sicily and Hidden Tuscany.From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Tradition, in the form of festivals, the written... |
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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution
Robert P. Watson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war.Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey,... |
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Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss · Crown
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation... |
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Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space
Gary Kitmacher · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versaSpace stations represent both the summit of space technology and, possibly, the future of humanity beyond Earth. Space Stations:... |
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The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
AARON MAHNKE · Del Rey
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Captivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark - featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore, now a streaming television series Sometimes you walk into a room, a building, or even a town, and you feel it. Something seems off - an atmosphere... |
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The White Darkness
DAVID GRANN · Doubleday
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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By the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed... |
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