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The American War in Afghanistan: A History
Carter Malkasian - Oxford University Press; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition
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The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners.The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely... |
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The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews
Cynthia Kaplan Shamash - Brandeis University Press
Format: eBook
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This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned... |
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The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
Justus Rosenberg - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard... |
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community -- a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state... |
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The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
Charles Glass - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Powerful and often startlingThe Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts --The Boston GlobeA groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War Charles Glassrenowned... |
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Surviving Hiroshima: A Young Woman's Story
Anthony Drago - Boutique of Quality Books
Format: Paperback
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On August 6, 1945, 22-year-old Kaleria Palchikoff was doing pre-breakfast chores when a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima, Japan. A moment later, everything went black as the house collapsed on her and her family. Their world, and everyone else's, changed as the first atomic... |
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Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
Alan Prendergast - Citadel Press
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping and exhaustively researched, first-time account of a feared gangbuster's groundbreaking battles with organized crime, the KKK, and corruption at the highest levels of government sure to resonate with readers affected by the politics of contemporary society.. At the height... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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