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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James · Scribner
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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Treasure Island: The Untold Story
John L Amrhein · New Maritima Press
Pages: 378
Format: Book
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IT HAPPENED! In 1750, fifty-two chests of silver pieces of eight were stolen from a Spanish galleon at Ocracoke, North Carolina, and carried to the West Indies where most of it was buried on Norman Island, a deserted key in the British Virgin Islands. In 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, published... |
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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
John Demos · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardThe astonishing story of a unique missionary project - and the America it embodied - from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world,... |
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The Parthenon Enigma
Joan Breton Connelly · Knopf
Pages: 485
Format: Hardcover
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model... |
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Larry Hancock · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness - and most importantly - the effectiveness... |
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Margalit Fox · Ecco; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed... |
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Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency
Colonel Gian Gentile · New Press, The
Format: Hardcover
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Colonel Gian Gentile’s 2008 article “Misreading the Surge” in World Politics Review first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals that has since been playing out in strategy sessions at the Pentagon, in classrooms at military academies, and on the pages of the New York... |
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Max Hastings · Harper
Pages: 610
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes... |
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Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
Larry P Arnn · Thomas Nelson Inc
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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A penetrating look at the necessity of constitutional limits upon government and exceptional men to lead those governments, uniquely taken by overlaying the life and writings of Winston Churchill with the American experiment. Churchill faced his own death, often and bravely. He led millions... |
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The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
Andrew Hussey · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab worldTo fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France--and, indeed, all of Europe--as well as major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali, Andrew... |
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The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty States
Samuel Etinde Crompton · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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How did colonies, territories, and land purchases shape the United States of America? What differences - and similarities - are there between the states? What does each state bring to the union? From sea to shining sea, The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates... |
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The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way
P J O'Rourke · Pgw
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover
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P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground" newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world's only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions,... |
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Mary Elise Sarotte · Basic Books
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover
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On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall - infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe - seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates... |
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Icecutter's Daughter, The
Tracie Peterson · Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling Author Unveils New Historical SeriesMerrill Krause longs for a family of her own but shes bound by a promise to her dying mother to care for her father and older brothers until they no longer need her She enjoys being part of the family business harvesting ice during the brutal... |
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