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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
Iain Ballantyne · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of the submarine's evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented. A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat -- originally derided and loathed in equal measure -- evolved... |
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RAF: The Birth of the World's First Air Force
RICHARD OVERY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A great historian's masterful account of the origins of air power in the RAF. The birth of the Royal Air Force during World War I marked a pivotal moment in modern military and political history. With Europe's western front frozen in a bloody stalemate of trench warfare, both sides... |
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Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas
Stephen Harrigan · University of Texas Press
Pages: 944
Format: Hardcover
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"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and the ignoble, a very human story indeed. [ Big Wonderful... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires
The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador
Kathryn T. Long · Oxford University Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish... |
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Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
Mark Bailey · Algonquin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Through the battles they fought, the cases they argued, the novels they wrote, and the lives they touched, these nine Irish men and women not only became American but helped make our nation what it is today. In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular... |
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The Story of Greece and Rome
Tony Spawforth · Yale University Press
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century
The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world.... |
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Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and the Fight for a New Nation
J D Dickey · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling historian sheds new light on Sherman's epic "March to the Sea," especially the soldiers, doctors, nurses, and civilians who would change the nation for the better. America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan... |
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Samurai: An Encyclopedia of Japan's Cultured Warriors
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D. · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 419
Format: Hardcover
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Alphabetically arranged entries along with primary source documents provide a comprehensive examination of the lives of Japan's samurai during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603-1868, a time when Japan transitioned from civil war to extended peace.A timeline highlights important events... |
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The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia
MARK GALEOTTI · Yale University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore... |
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On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography
· Abrams Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel
Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern... |
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based... |
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Pagan Light: Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri
Jamie James · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A rich, intimate embrace of Capri, which was a magnet for artistic renegades and a place of erotic refugeIsolated and arrestingly beautiful, the island of Capri has been a refuge for renegade artists and writers fleeing the strictures of conventional society from the time of Augustus, who bought... |
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