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A Few Planes for China: The Birth of the Flying Tigers
Eugenie Buchan · ForeEdge
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across thAfter Pearl Harbor, the Japanese seemed... |
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The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family
Nina Sankovitch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time,... |
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A Short History of China: From Ancient Dynasties to Economic Powerhouse
Gordon Kerr · Oldcastle Books
Format: Paperback
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From the beginnings of Chinese prehistory right through to internet censorship, a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous countryAn absorbing introduction to more than 4,000 years of Chinese history, this book tells the stories of the tyrants, despots,... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on World War II's Eastern Front
Peter G. Tsouras · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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Fighting in Hell compiles four firsthand accounts detailing the German campaign on Russia during World War II. These documents were originally published by the US Army, who after the war commissioned German prisoners to detail their experiences during the war, in an effort to understand... |
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
Jeffrey Cox · Osprey Pub Co
Pages: 487
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh look at the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of 1941-42 which heralded a wave of Japanese naval victories in the Pacific but which eventually sowed the seeds of their eventual change in fortunes. In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese juggernaut quickly racked up victory... |
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Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II
Bruce Henderson · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers,... |
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1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar
Eric Burns · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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One of the most dynamic eras in American history -- the 1920s -- began with this watershed year that would set the tone for the century to follow. "The Roaring Twenties" is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with... |
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
DIANA PRESTON · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days... |
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Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
Paddy Hayes · Overlook Duckworth
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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The true story of Daphne Park, the female British secret intelligence officer who rose through the male-dominated ranks to become the Queen of SpiesFrom living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life -- one that... |
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Zygar · Public Affairs
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [Putin's court is the] real House of Cards." - Lev Lurie, writer and historianAll the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented... |
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Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England
Catherine Hanley · Yale University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal blood, and they found him on the other side of the Channel: astonishingly, the most attractive candidate for the crown... |
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