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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
John Guy · Viking
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power by the bestselling, Whitbread Award-winning author of Queen of Scots. Elizabeth was crowned at twenty-five after a tempestuous childhood... |
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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch. · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 393
Format: Print book
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A brilliant new translation of five of history's greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography.Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt... |
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The Fighting 30th Division: They Called Them Roosevelt's SS
Martin King · Casemate
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and Georgia and Tennessee, they were one of the hardest-fighting... |
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Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Sophie Pinkham · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A distinctive writer's fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this... |
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Rare Birds: Forgotten Aircraft of the Second World War
Charles R G Bain · Fonthill Media
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The Second World War saw the apex of piston-engine aircraft design, and ushered the world into the jet age. Anybody who studies aviation will know the names: Spitfire, Mustang, Zero, Messerschmitt, Shturmovik. But there were many more aircraft to take to the skies before and during the war,... |
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Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
Harold H Brown · University Alabama Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American man who,... |
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Tall Ships: History Comes to Life on the Great Lakes
Kaitlin Morrison · Adventure Pubns
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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Seeing a tall ship under full sail is an unforgettable experience - it's like a trip back in time! From full-rigged ships that look like the pirate vessels of old to replicas of the sleek Baltimore schooners that helped win the War of 1812, a variety of tall ships ply the waters of the Great... |
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Fran Leadon · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside... |
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Lenawee County and the Civil War
Ray Lennard · History Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Lenawee County was a hotbed for antislavery activities in the 1830s that translated into strong Union support in April 1861. Adrian, Tecumseh and Hudson sent hundreds of soldiers to fight and die in the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation propelled nearly fifty of the county's... |
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America's Most Haunted Hotels: Checking In with Uninvited Guests
Jamie Davis Whitmer · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 264
Format: Print book
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Journey into the mysterious world of haunted hotels, where uninvited guests roam the lavish halls, phantom sounds ring throughout the rooms, and chills run along the spine of anyone who dares to check in for a night. Join Jamie Davis Whitmer, author of Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums,... |
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