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The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five
Fernando Morais · Verso
Format: Print book
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Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting... |
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Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
Harold H Brown · University Alabama Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American man who,... |
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Call sign Extortion 17 : the shoot-down of SEAL Team Six
Don Brown · Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 295
Format: Print book
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"A Black Hawk Down of the war in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the U.S. in 12 years of that conflict--and a military investigation that covered up evidence of an inside job by the Taliban. Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer stationed at the Pentagon, and former Special... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling... |
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Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich
Jochen Hellbeck · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet... |
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Rescue at Los BanÌ?os : the most daring prison camp raid of World War II
Bruce Henderson · William Morrow
Format: Print book
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The true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Ban'os... |
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For Duty and Honor: Tennessee's Mexican War Experience
Timothy D. Johnson · Univ Tennessee Press
Pages: 302
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the first full-length work on the state's involvement in the Mexican War. Tennessee contributed a huge number of volunteers to the war effort, and Johnson's account not only seeks to describe the military context but also to explore the motivations of Tennessee soldiers.... |
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Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor
Richard Holmes · DK
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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A spectacular visual guide to the epic 4,000-year history of weaponry, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution.Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor tells this epic story of the entire spectrum of weaponry through stunning photography and authoritative coverage, from... |
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb - the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
JILL LEPORE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover
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In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political equality,... |
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The Twentieth Century in 100 Moments
Akim; Rounds Heather Reinhardt
Format: eBook : Document : English
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Experience the twentieth century through the people and events that made headlines--a unique collection of voices, images, and unforgettable cultural touchstones. The Twentieth Century in 100 Moments: A Visual History groups and explains the most important events of the twentieth century... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 1973
Douglas Brinkley · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 819
Format: Print book
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The blueprint for Nixon's downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published When The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 was published in August of 2014, it jumped immediately onto the New York Times bestseller list and captivated media attention for its many... |
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