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The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End
Elizabeth Drayson · Interlink Pub Group
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
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The first full account in any language of the last Muslim king of Spain. An action-packed story of betrayal, courage, intrigue, heroism, and tragedy. The Moor's Last Stand presents the poignant story of Boabdil, the last Muslim king of Granada. Betrayed by his family and undermined... |
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Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I
Nick Lloyd · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. In the summer of 1917, upwards of 500,000 men were killed or wounded, maimed, gassed, drowned, or buried in this... |
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
Zephyr Teachout · Harvard Univ Press
Pages: 376
Format: Audiobook
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When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological... |
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Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Richard T Cahill Jr. · The Kent State University Press
Pages: 402
Format: Paperback
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In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
REBECCA SKLOOT · BROADWAY BOOKS
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Soon to be an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important... |
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Recipient of the American Book Award2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous... |
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Kara Cooney · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal... |
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Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics
Erin McHugh · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A collection of entertaining and cautionary tales of political missteps in American history, from the birth of the nation through the present day. Just in time for the presidential election of 2016 comes Political Suicide, a history of the best and most interesting missteps, peccadilloes,... |
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Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha · Random House Inc
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential - and controversial - men in modern history. Ramachandra... |
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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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The Battle of the Somme
Alan Axelrod author of "Generals South Generals North" · Lyons Press
Pages: 291
Format: Print book
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offensive to be waged against Germany even as France poured incredible numbers of men into the slaughterhouse that was the desperate defense of Verdun. élan vital" of the French people, a quality, he argued, that set the Gallic race apart from the rest of the world. French losses... |
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The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History
Patricia Seed · Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Bringing together a rich and diverse collection of 100 historical maps from the Paleolithic to the present, The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History illustrates how peoples and cultures throughout the human past have imagined their worlds. The collection--which includes... |
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War
John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John McCain’s evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed... |
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All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
Brian Castner · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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The search for a friend's killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed.The EOD - explosive ordnance disposal - community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been... |
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