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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich... |
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A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Geoffrey Wawro · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover |
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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover |
From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita... |
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Going Deep: How Wide Receivers Became the Most Compelling Figures in Pro Sports
Cris Carter · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover |
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How Wideouts Became the NFLs StandoutsFrom the time Cris Carter started his career as a supplemental draft pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1987 to his retirement in 2002, the position of wide receiver exploded in the NFL. Receivers went from being quiet and classy to being known for their... |
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Nixon's Gamble: How a President's Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration
Ray Locker · Lyons Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that "government will listen. ... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in." But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government by signing National Security... |
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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
Michael C. C. Adams · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude... |
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A Brief History of Tremont
W Dennis Keating · The History Press
Pages: 143
Format: Print book |
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For almost two centuries, the historic Tremont neighborhood has rested on a bluff overlooking Clevelands industrial valley. The sleepy farming community was transformed in 1867, when Cleveland annexed it. Factories attracted thousands of emigrants from Europe, and industrialization gave... |
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Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World
Brooke Borel · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vulnerable slumber. Though bed bugs today... |
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Print book |
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Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a... |
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide
Priscilla Roberts · ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover |
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide captures the historical context, the minute-by-minute drama, and the profound repercussions of the "Missiles of October" confrontation that brought the very real threat of nuclear attack to the United States' doorstep. Coinciding... |
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded... |
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet
John Naughton · Quercus
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover |
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John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities... |
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Man of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American Century
Alonzo Hamby · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover |
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No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following in the footsteps of his Republican cousin President Theodore Roosevelt, FDR devoted himself to politics as a Democrat and a true... |
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