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Space 2069: After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars and Beyond
David Whitehouse - Icon Books
Format: Hardcover
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The thirteenth person to walk on the Moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole. The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions transforms our ability to live on the Moon. From bases on the Moon we can make the long,... |
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The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
Robert P Watson - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book
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Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later,... |
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
Dean Jobb - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals," Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. "He has nerve and he has knowledge." In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United... |
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The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
Simon Jenkins - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital.London: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes, and ruled by the Normans. This transformative place became a medieval maze... |
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Revolution
Peter Ackroyd - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was -- again -- at war with France, a war that would end with... |
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann - Doubleday
Format: hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. With the twists and turns of a thriller Grann unearths the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager,... |
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The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
David Nasaw - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWIIIn May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with... |
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