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Century of War
Luciano Garibaldi · White Star
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Featuring an introduction by award-winning CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, this important volume chronicles the major battles of the twentieth-century. Organized chronologically, it begins with the Anglo-Boer War and ends with the Balkan War, with chapters focusing on World War I, World War II, The Korean... |
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San Antonio De Bexar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier
Jesu?s F de la Teja · Univ of New Mexico Pr
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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This award-winning history explores eighteenth-century San Antonio de Béxar, a community on the periphery of Spain's North American frontier. From this struggling settlement eventually developed modern San Antonio, Texas. In spite of isolation and neglect, many of the settlers, veterans... |
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Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer · Oxford University Press
Pages: 445
Format: Hardcover
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Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the night of April 18, 1775--what... |
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Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail
Lewis Hector Garrard · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
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In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior... |
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New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah
Richard S Lowry · Savas Beatie
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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GOLD MEDAL FOR NON-FICTION, HISTORY, 2010, MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA Fallujah. Few names conjure up as many images of blood, sacrifice, and valor as does this ancient city in Al Anbar province forty miles west of Baghdad. This sprawling concrete jungle was the scene of two major... |
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Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
Dan Hampton · William Morrow
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation - a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the trailblazing aviators of World... |
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Time America: An Illustrated History
Editors of Time Magazine · Time
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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"Time" illuminates the story of America in a fascinating new way in this magnificent volume which collects the most iconic images in the nation's history. Here are indelible photographs - from the assassination of J F Kennedy to the first landing on the moon. Here are breath-taking... |
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Happiness: A History
Darrin M McMahon · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Darrin M. McMahon's sweeping new book, chronicling the evolution of happiness over two thousand years of Western culture and thought, argues that our modern belief in happiness - that happiness is a natural right - is a relatively recent development. It is a product of a dramatic... |
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The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900
Mike Cox · Forge
Pages: 512
Format: Book
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Texas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that wandered the Texas... |
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Polio: An American Story
David M. Oshinsky
Format: Hardcover
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Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky... |
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Mitchell Zuckoff · Twelve, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special... |
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