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Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future
Phyllida Scrivens · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a young boy who escaped Hitler and the Holocaust - and lived happily ever after.Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of Günter Stern who, at fourteen, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education, and future, resolved to escape from his rural village... |
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Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking
Linda Civitello · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's... |
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American Runway: 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row
BOOTH MOORE · Abrams
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
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New York Fashion Week has served many purposes throughout its long history, but it has always remained at the center of the American fashion world. During World War II, Fashion Week challenged the dominance of French couture; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a showcase for American sportswear... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel · Pantheon
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ARTHUR PH D HERMAN · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Though they were men of very different backgrounds and experiences, Herman reveals how Wilson and Lenin were very much... |
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The Big Break: The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told
Stephen Dando-Collins · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs) . The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500... |
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
Cathal J Nolan · Oxford University Press
Pages: 728
Format: Print book
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations... |
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
JOHN BUTMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie,... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL · Hill and Wang
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia -- among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America -- has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original... |
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Rivals unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Rick Beyer · Hachette Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry.The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across... |
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