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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran... |
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One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare
Linda Robinson · PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how - after a decade of intensive combat operations - special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide.Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam.... |
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A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization
Stephen Kershaw · Running Press Book Publishers ; London
Pages: 402
Format: Print book
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From Gladiator to 300, the true history of the classical world is revealed here and will include everything you need to know including: Why was Julius Caesar assassinated? Who were the Spartans? Where does democracy come from? Despite centuries of history, the ancient world still has a powerful... |
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Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys of the 8th Air Force Saved World War II
Kevin Wilson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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The heroic, dramatic, and sometimes tragic history of how the US 8th Air Force changed the course of World War II. The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February -- targeting German aircraft... |
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Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
Robert Kaplan · Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet this familiar expression is a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, acclaimed authors Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With... |
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Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad
John R Schindler · Zenith Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Al-Qa'ida: in the 80s they were in Afghanistan, supported by America and fighting the Russians. In the new century they have metastasized throughout the world's geopolitical body. Where were they in the 90s? Unholy Terror provides the answer, with all its terrifying implications... |
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Civil War in Apacheland: Sergeant George Hand's Diary, 1861-1864
George Hand · High-Lonesome Books
Format: Hardcover
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The publication of Whiskey, Six-Guns and Red-Light Ladies in 1994 introduced readers to the ribald 1870s diary of frontier saloon keeper, George Hand. More than a decade earlier, George Hand kept another spirited journal, this one recording his service with the Union Army. Marching from... |
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Journey to the Arctic: The True Story of the Disastrous 1871 Mission to the North Pole
Euphemia Vale Blake · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
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An astonishing tale of being stranded in the Arctic Ice.“While floating down on the ice-floe, in the midst of dirt and darkness, hungry and cold… I wondered at myself that I could have learned, in a few short months, to have eaten such things, and submitted to such practices,... |
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The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Robert Sackville-West · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In the small hours of the morning of June 3, 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. Only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later did the full story emerge. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot... |
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Robert Gerwarth · Farrar
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth centuryFor the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation,... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 319
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2015 NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. "Remarkable ... a richly detailed, affecting account ... Giridharadas seeks less to uplift than illuminate ... Which of these men is the '"true American'" of the title? That there is no simple... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 267
Format: Print book
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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