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Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
Tom Mcmillan · Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover |
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United Airlines Flight which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September th is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history We know of the passenger uprising but therersquos so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax Amazingly the definitive... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings... |
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The Other Paris
Luc Sante · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast,... |
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Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848
Adam Zamoyski · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover |
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For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power - and their heads - were at risk. Driven by paranoia,... |
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Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
Beebe Bahrami · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 300
Format: Print book |
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Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe's most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupations, writer Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists who are doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date... |
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Cooking & Dining in Tudor & Early Stuart England
Peter Brears · Prospect Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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What is unique about Brears book is that he combines an account of the cookery with a close look at the practical arrangements, the kitchens and dining halls, where that food was cooked and consumed. His prose is enlivened by his drawings as accurate as can be which lay bare to the modern... |
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Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence
Amy Kate Bailey · The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Chapter |
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On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know... |
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Project Management in History: The First Jeep
Paul R. Bruno · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback |
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The spring and summer of 1940 witnessed the resounding defeats of the French army and British Expeditionary Force at the hands of modernized German troops, designed to take advantage of the latest advances in technology. These included mobile vehicles and tanks used in formation to blast... |
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The Last White Rose: The Secret Wars of the Tudors
Desmond Seward · Pegasus Books
Pages: 413
Format: Hardcover |
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A brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history: The Tudor victory and their dynasty. One of the most dramatic periods of British history, the Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry... |
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The Customs and Traditions of Wales: A Pocket Guide
Trefor M Owen · University of Wales Press
Pages: 188
Format: Print book |
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This concise and informative guide looks back at the customs and traditions of a predominantly rural Wales during the nineteenth century. Each chapter is complemented by several eye-witness accounts that create vivid descriptions of a forgotten way of life, such as the revelries of the corn... |
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The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
Don Oberdorfer · Basic Books
Pages: 519
Format: Paperback |
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Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted - and threatened to embroil - the rest of the world. In this landmark history, now thoroughly revised and updated in conjunction with Korea expert Robert Carlin,... |
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
Jonathan M. Bryant · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant -- and long forgotten -- Supreme Court cases in American history.In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States... |
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