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From the Army to College: Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education
Jillian Ventrone · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover |
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Today's soldiers are highly motivated to serve, but face numerous challenges, especially considering the sacrifices they have made over the past decade of war. As the service branches face budget cuts and draw downs, soldiers need to be aware of the resources and options available to help... |
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 378
Format: Print book |
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They... |
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Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Nicola Tallis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A significant retelling of the often-misunderstood tale of Lady Jane Grey's journey through her trial and execution -- recalling the dangerous plots and web of deadly intrigue in which she became involuntarily tangled, and which ultimately led to a catastrophic conclusion. "Good people,... |
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Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter
Maria Venegas · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover |
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A New York Times Editors' Choice bookThe haunting story of a daughter's struggle to confront her father's turbulent-and often violent-legacyAfter a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda... |
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Waterloo: A New History
Gordon Corrigan · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In time for the bicentennial in 2015, a veteran historian brings the campaign and battle, its armies and their commanders, to fresh and vivid life in his brilliant new military history of one of the key battles in world history. Wellington remarked that Waterloo was “a damned nice... |
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GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
Duncan Barrett · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 361
Format: Paperback |
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For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany's, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience - the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make... |
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My Father and Atticus Finch
Joseph Madison Beck · Center Point Pub
Pages: 500
Format: Large Print Library Binding |
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"A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird"-- |
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Once Upon a Yugoslavia: When the American Way Met Tito's Third Way
Surya Green · New Europe Books, 2015.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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It is 1968. Across America, citizens march for social reform and an end to the Vietnam War. Amid all this, Surya Green--a New York-born, self-absorbed, modern young woman--is a student at Stanford University, blithely pursuing a graduate degree in communication. Her view of life's purpose... |
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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
Adrian Tinniswood · Basic Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book |
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As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous... |
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Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918
John Baxter · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback |
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A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history.From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant... |
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Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
John Man · Da Capo, 2016.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book |
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Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that... |
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