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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott · Harper
Pages: 513
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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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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All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
Brian Castner · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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The search for a friend's killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed.The EOD - explosive ordnance disposal - community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been... |
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
Richard Whittle · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the birth of the Predator drone, a wonder weapon that transformed the American military, reshaped modern warfare, and sparked a revolution in aviationThe creation of the first weapon in history whose operators can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe... |
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Max Hastings · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 615
Format: Print book
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Hailed in Britain as "Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful" (Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle... |
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Midnight's Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition
John Keay · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 392
Format: Print book
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Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants - the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India - are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous... |
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Pages: 175
Format: Paperback
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This new edition of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" is built around J.A. Leo Lemay and P.R. Zall's text. Louis Masur's introduction sets the work in its historical context. Masur also discusses America after Franklin and why the autobiography has had such a tremendous... |
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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman · NYU Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names - Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like... |
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Enlisted Soldier's Guide
Thomas Gills · Stackpole Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Updated edition of the essential guide for enlisted soldiers in the U.S. ArmyThis military reference guide, completely revised for the current army, is targeted at young men and women who have enlisted in the U.S. Army or are thinking about doing so. The book is a must-have resource for a successful... |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt · Alexandria Library
Pages: 400
Format: Book
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Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's... |
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously,... |
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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
Adrian Tinniswood · Basic Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of England's country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous... |
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