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The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
John C. McManus · NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought... |
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A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State
Meredith Tax · Bellevue Literary Pr
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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"This is the book I've been waiting for - only it's richer, deeper, and more intriguing than I could have imagined. A Road Unforeseen is a major contribution to our understanding of feminism and Islam, of women and the world, and gives me fresh hope for change." - Barbara... |
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The Roman Army: The Greatest War Machine of the Ancient World
Chris ed McNab · Metro Books
Format: Hardcover
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Chris McNab's latest title for Osprey follows the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to the shameful defeats inflicted upon the late Roman army by the Goths and Huns. Tracing the development of tactics,... |
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff · Harper
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La delivers his most compelling and vital work yet - a spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative, years in the making, that weaves together myriad stories to create the definitive portrait of 9/11. In... |
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Ben Ehrenreich · Penguin Press
Pages: 428
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life
Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities... |
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The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
Matthew Carl Strecher · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike.... |
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The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry
CLARE MULLEY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler -- a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots. Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention... |
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The World Remade: America in World War I
G J Meyer · Bantam
Pages: 688
Format: Print book
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A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging... |
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A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific
Hua Hsu · Harvard University Press
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Hua Hsu tells the story... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 808
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape
Suzannah Lessard · Counterpoint
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings -- cities, countryside, and sprawl -- exploring change in the meaning of place, and reimagining our American landscape
Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns... |
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John Singer Sargent and His Muse: Painting Love and Loss
Karen Corsano · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings... |
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The Month that Changed the World: July 1914
Gordon Martel · Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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On June 28, 1914, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to identify the 'guilty' person or state responsible, or alternatively attempting... |
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