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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 336
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 ReviewFrom New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling... |
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The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites
Libby O'Connell · Sourcebooks; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Like many miniencyclopedias, this one is studded with often intriguing facts." -- KirkusFrom the chief historian at HISTORY® comes a rich chronicle of the evolution of American cuisine and culture, from before Columbus's arrival to today.Did you know that the first graham... |
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George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster
John A Nagy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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George Washington was America's first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.George Washington's Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary... |
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The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas
Mark Anderson Moore · N.C. Department of Cultural Resources
Pages: 190
Format: Print book
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Ninety-nine highly-detailed maps, many spanning a full 17" x 11" page, were created for this landmark study of the impact of the Civil War in the Tar Heel State. Every significant Civil War military engagement in the state is highlighted in this lavishly illustrated, full-color,... |
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA · Liveright
Pages: 525
Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
Gregory A Daddis · Oxford University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated... |
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The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and Heroes
Carolyne Larrington · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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An exhilarating introduction to the vivid, violent, boisterous world of the Norse myths and their cultural legacy -- from Tolkien to Game of ThronesThe Norse Myths presents the infamous Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by Ó?inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological... |
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy Warren · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 345
Format: Print book
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The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more... |
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Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
R J M BLACKETT · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
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The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett... |
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Ohio's Regulars in the War of 1812
Eric E Johnson · Heritage Books, 2014.
Pages: 180
Format: Book
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The War of 1812 is largely forgotten by the American public today except for academia, military historians, and people who are researching their family trees. There is a genre of War of 1812 research that is largely overlooked today, that is, identifying the men who served in the U.S. Army... |
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
Marc Morris · Pegasus Books
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris... |
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Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
Scott Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
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This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance.Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent... |
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Book
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An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history.
Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses... |
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