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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Hampton Sides · Doubleday
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
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A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II.On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American... |
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
Ann Shen · Chronicle Books
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were... |
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War under the Pacific
Keith Wheeler · Time-Life Books
Pages: 208
Format: Book
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SOME CHAPTERS INCLUDE: A FORCE UNREADY FOR WAR; THE YEAR THAT TURNED THE TIDE; THE ENEMY BELOW; A TIME OF SLAUGHTER; AND ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT. |
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Victor Davis Hanson · Basic Books
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historianWorld War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday
Pages: 387
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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The Library Book
SUSAN ORLEAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier · William Morrow
Pages: 346
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT"†OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT"‡ THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"§January... |
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The Family Tree Italian Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Family Tree in Italy
Melanie D Holtz · Family Tree Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to discover your Italian ancestors with this comprehensive guide to using Italian records and genealogy websites. This guide teaches you how to find your ancestors in Italian census and birth, marriage and death records, plus how to use Italian maps and understand Italian-language... |
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Mourning Lincoln
Martha Hodes · Yale University Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons.... |
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the United... |
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,... |
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