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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim · Broadway Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland.... |
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The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
Micki McElya · Harvard University Press
Pages: 395
Format: Print book
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Arlington National Cemetery is America's most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington's symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United... |
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The Defeat of the Luftwaffe: The Eastern Front 1941-45, A Strategy for Disaster
Jonathan Trigg · Amberley Publishing
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the West. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces working hand in glove and sweeping away all resistance. On the ground the new panzer divisions symbolized this combat revolution, and in the air it was the all-conquering... |
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
Ruth Goodman · Liveright; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A delightful tour through the intimate details of life in Victorian England, told by a historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling... |
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The Italians
John Hooper · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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Women in the Great War
Stephen Wynn · Pen and Sword
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theaters of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running. Before the war women... |
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The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 393
Format: Print book
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"[A] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice." - The Washington Post More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost in its entirety.After... |
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The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land---A True Detective Story
Patrick Bishop · Harper; First U.S. Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British... |
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John Simmons : the measure of a man
Denise Doherty Pappas · No Small Matters Press
Pages: 193
Format: Print book
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While cultural critics today question the economic value of a college education, nearly 150 years ago a radical tailor in Boston never doubted it. Rather, this Rhode Island native, son of a Revolutionary War Hero, and a man who did not graduate from high school, carefully accumulated a fortune... |
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The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
Peter F Guardino · Harvard University Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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By focusing on the experiences of ordinary Mexicans and Americans, The Dead March offers a clearer historical picture than we have ever had of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America.Peter Guardino invites skepticism about the received view that the United States emerged... |
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