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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
Kate Williams · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life -- their friendship -- changed them forever. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually... |
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The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
Julie Lindahl · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed... |
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
Robert Kagan · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems... |
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Gerri Chanel · Icon Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move... |
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Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
James Longo · Diversion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsburg Imperial family became the catalyst for his vendetta against a vanished empire, a dead archduke, and his royal orphans. That hatred drove Hitler's rise to power and led directly... |
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
Ferdinand Addis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 648
Format: Hardcover
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The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses... |
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Under a Darkening Sky: The American Experience in Nazi Europe: 1939-1941
Robert Lyman · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid social history of the American expatriate experience in Europe between 1939 and 1941, as the Nazi menace brings a shadow over the continent, heralding the storms of war.A poignant and powerful portrait of Europe in the years between 1939 and 1941 -- as the Nazi menace marches toward... |
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
Robert Kershaw · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A visceral and momentous narrative of the first twenty-four hours of D-Day on Omaha Beach: the most dramatic Allied landing of World War II.Before World War II, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, German commander... |
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Smithsonian: History of the World Map by Map
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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More than 140 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the space race.Custom regional and global maps present the history of the world in action, charting how events traced patterns on land and ocean--patterns of exploration,... |
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