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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Tara Zahra · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"With a combination of deft historical analysis, sparkling prose, and careful attention to individual stories, both poignant and instructive, The Great Departure is brimming with important and suggestive lessons from the past for thinking about the worldwide dynamics of emigrants and refugees... |
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
Amy Shira Teitel · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an important and rarely told tale. America's space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. At the end of World War II, Wernher... |
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The Confederate Steam Navy: 1861-1865
Donald L Canney · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both domestic and foreign-built) , commerce raiders, blockade runners, riverine and ocean-going gunboats, torpedo and submersible vessels, and floating... |
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early... |
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We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
Herb Frazier · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine members of the congregation. The captured shooter, twenty-one-year-old Dylan Roof, a white... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: eBook
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
ELIZABETH NORTON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also... |
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
IAN BLACK · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From a long-time Guardian correspondent and editor, an expansive, authoritative, and balanced account of over a century of violent confrontation, war, and occupation in Palestine and Israel, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and 50th anniversary of the Six-Day... |
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My Dad Had That Car: A Nostalgic Look at the American Automobile, 1920-1990
Tad Burness · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pages: 1376
Format: Print book
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This one-of-a-kind, massive illustrated history of more than 10,000 American automobiles is perfect for the millions of classic car enthusiasts. With more than 1,300 pages and 12,500 illustrations covering 70 years, this may be the most complete visual history of the American automobile... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky · Bloomsbury
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings... |
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Lost villages of the Eastern Aleutians : Biorka, Kashega, Makushin
Ray Hudson · National Park Service
Format: Paperback
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When World War II encircled the Aleutian Islands, the lives of the Unangax inhabitants and the communities they lived in were forever changed. Perhaps the most profound impacts were on three small traditional villages: Biorka, Kashega, and Makushin. Lost Villages f the Eastern Aleutians... |
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