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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Wil S. Hylton · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Praised by Robert Kurson, Philipp Meyer, Hampton Sides, Michael Paterniti, and many others "A powerful story, masterfully told."—GQ"[A] deeply textured, propulsive new book...a phenomenal writer."—TIME.com"Marries an almost cinematically well-paced... |
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Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
Charlotte Higgins · Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the captivating and haunting exploration of the remnants of an empire What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot,... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner
Pages: 592
Format: Print book |
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THE #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of "The Emperor of All Maladies" a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to read and write... |
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A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
Maury Klein · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the worlds history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents-and to do so it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein · Vintage |
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
James L. Haley · St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific.... |
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From Landfill to Hallowed Ground: The Largest Crime Scene in America
Frank Marra , · Brown Books Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover |
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The morning of September 11, 2001, began like any other morning for police Sergeant Frank Marra. He woke up early, brewed his coffee, and got his son Anthony ready for kindergarten. That was until the image of the South Tower engulfed in flames and smoke interrupted televised broadcasts... |
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze · Viking; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York.... |
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