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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Adam Hochschild · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s,... |
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
Simon Ings · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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Mob Cop: My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department
Fred Pascente · Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, a central character in Nicholas Pileggi's Casino and one of Chicago's most notoriÂous mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department. Pascente... |
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Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook
Paul J. Springer · ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This timely handbook traces the development of cyber capabilities from their roots in information warfare and cryptology to their potential military application in combat. Incorporates expertise from diverse viewpoints from the military, government agencies, industry, and academia Provides... |
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Connecticut Pirates & Privateers:
Wick Griswold · Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book
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The waters, inlets and islands of Connecticut once swarmed with fabled corsairs like Captain Kidd and Blackbeard who may have buried their booty in Constitution State soil. In colonial times and through the nineteenth century, over one hundred privateers used the Connecticut River and waterways... |
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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Sabina Knight · Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity... |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides · Random House Inc
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress... |
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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
David J Barron · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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"A first-rate history filled with revealing incidents and informed analysis." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war.The Constitution... |
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Rivals unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Rick Beyer · Hachette Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry.The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across... |
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Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Carrie Gibson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria onto what is today San Salvador, in the Bahamas, and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British... |
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The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Patrick J. Buchanan · Crown Forum; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962... |
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Abandoned Asylums of Massachusetts
Tammy Rebello · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book
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This collection of photographs, history, and firsthand accounts gives readers a glimpse at the roots of mental health. These vignettes are born of the personal stories of those who worked at these facilities, those who were institutionalized, and their families. The authors took the time... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann · Farrar
Pages: 880
Format: Print book
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A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015A Kirkus Reviews Best History Book of 2015Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust categoryThe first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration campsIn a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented,... |
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