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The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un
Chung Min Lee · All Points Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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North Korea is poised at the crossroads of history. Which direction will its leader take?
Throughout the world, oppressive regimes are being uprooted and replaced by budding democracies, but one exception remains: The People's Republic of North Korea. The Kim family has clung... |
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The White Road: Journey into an Obsession
Edmund de Waal · Farrar
Pages: 401
Format: Print book
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An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning... |
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
Kevin M. Levin · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully... |
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
David L. Roll · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century.
Winston Churchill called... |
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The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art
Paul Bahn · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new researchWhere is the world's very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting... |
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On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography
· Abrams Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel
Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern... |
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Charles Spencer · Bloomsbury Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwells army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers... |
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The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India
Jon Wilson · Public Affairs
Pages: 584
Format: Print book
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"Jon Wilson visits often ignored arenas of British-Indian contact to mount a devastating critique of British rule. The exercise of sovereignty . . . was deemed sufficient unto itself. Policy-making was chaotic and implementation uneven. . . . The only constant was violence. This is a brave... |
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George... |
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Interpreting American History: The New Deal and the Great Depression
Aaron D Purcell · The Kent State University Press
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
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In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critical period in American history. Following a decade of prosperity, the Great Depression brought unemployment, economic ruin, poverty, and a sense... |
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A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow
Mike Farris · W W Norton
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii.In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother,... |
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Patton's Last Gamble: The Disastrous Raid on POW Camp Hammelburg in World War II
Duane P Schultz · Stackpole Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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In March 1945, against the advice of his top subordinates, Gen. George Patton created a special task force to venture more than fifty miles behind enemy lines and liberate a POW camp near Hammelburg, Germany. The camp held some 1,500 American prisoners, including Patton's son-in-law.... |
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Why The Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
Ben Coates · Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book
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*A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR*Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective,... |
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