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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
GRAHAM ROBB · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history. Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England.... |
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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
Donald L. Miller · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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While F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Manhattan was transformed by jazz, night clubs, radio, skyscrapers, movies, and the ferocious energy of the 1920s, as this illuminating cultural history brilliantly demonstrates. In four words—the capital of everything—Duke Ellington captured Manhattan... |
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The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
MICHAEL K JONES · Pegasus Books
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable and inspiring story of one of the greatest warrior-princes of the Middle Ages -- and an unforgettably vivid portrait of warfare and chivalry in the fourteen century.As a child he was given his own suit of armor; at the age of sixteen, he helped defeat the French at Crécy.... |
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Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair
Christopher Oldstone-Moore · The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Beards - they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today... |
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Untitled
Thanassis Cambanis · Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist Thanassis Cambanis tells the "wonderfully readable and insightful" (BOOKLIST , starred review) inside story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Cambanis brings to life the noble dreamers who brought Egypt to the brink of freedom, and the dark... |
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Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Lucy Worsley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first... |
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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 Age
In 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... |
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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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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
MAX WALLACE · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 492
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction "A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution." -- Kirkus starred review On November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening... |
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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Amanda Vaill · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 436
Format: Print book
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A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War
Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe -- a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" -- six people meet and find... |
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God is Not Here: A Soldier's Struggle with Torture, Trauma, and the Moral Injuries of War
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Russell Edmonds · Pegasus Books
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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God Is Not Here is a powerful and intimate look into torture and its effect on both the tortured and the torturer.In May of 2005, the U.S. government finally acknowledged that the invasion of Iraq had spawned an insurgency. With that admission, training the Iraqi Forces suddenly became... |
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