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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command, long-listed... |
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Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
Daniel Siemens · Yale University Press
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
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The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power... |
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher · Pegasus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Tim Butcher · Grove Press
Pages: 326
Format: Print book
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On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo... |
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places.In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious... |
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Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past
Paul G Bahn · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux... |
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