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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Civil War Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies
Marianne Monson · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 420
Format: Library Binding
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends... |
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Edward Offley · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - AMAZON EDITORS' PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2017 "Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." - Dave Eggers, New York Times Book ReviewShelf Awareness's Best Book of 2017Named a best book of the year by Wall... |
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Anne de Courcy · Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband.By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial... |
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First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit
Patrick K. O'Donnell · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men - among them a dentist, a Hollywood movie star, an archaeologist, California surfers, and even former enemies of the Allies - united to form an exceptional unit that would forge the capabilities of the Navy's Sea, Air, and Land... |
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
Jack Cheevers · NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2014 SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATUREIn 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence... |
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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage · Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
Debora Diniz · Zed Books
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
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The Zika virus has devastated lives and countless communities, leaving children across the Americas with severe disabilities as a result of the epidemic. Nowhere has this devastation been more deeply felt than in Alagoas, a small rural province in northeast Brazil. It was here that the most... |
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The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Maria Shriver · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Print book
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Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. 1 in 3 Americans today live in poverty or teeter on the brink.... |
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The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five
Fernando Morais · Verso
Format: Print book
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Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting... |
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Jamestown, the Truth Revealed
William M Kelso · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious about the birthplace... |
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Grant
RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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