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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History

Diane Harris Cline - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece...
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Songs Only You Know: A Memoir

Sean Madigan Hoen - Soho,
Format: Print book

Eighteen-year-old Sean Madigan Hoen was struggling to keep his involvement in the city's hardcore punk scene a secret from his family. Then he learned that his father, too, had a second life - as a crack addict. Songs Only You Know begins in the '90s and spans a decade during...
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Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

This is the definitive biography of Britain©'s greatest monarch, who ©"was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.©" ©"One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time©"...
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants

Peter D Kramer - Farrar
Format: Print book

Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In "Ordinarily Well, " the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked...
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853

Edward Dolnick - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold...
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Coal: A Human History

Barbara Freese - Basic Books; 3rd pr edition
Format: Hardcover

Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, powered navies, fueled economies, and expanded frontiers. It made China a twelfth-century superpower, inspired the writing of the Communist Manifesto, and helped...
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Nick Turse - Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civiliansAmericans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by "a few bad apples."...
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Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State

T. D. Allman - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Over the centuries, Florida has been many things an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, gods waiting room, and a place to start over. Depopulated...
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The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

Fred Kaplan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks.The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David...
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A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam

Keith Walker - Presidio Pr
Format: Hardcover

Includes the stories of twenty-six WACs, USO and Red Cross workers
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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation

Estelle B. Freedman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Rape has never had a universally accepted definition, and the uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that it remains a word in flux. Redefining Rape tells the story of the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the United States,...
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Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation

Robert Wilson - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

In the s and s Brady of Broadway was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries Henry Clay Daniel Webster Dolley Madison Henry James as a boy with his father Horace Greeley Edgar Allan Poe the Prince of Wales and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed...
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American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

Jerome A Greene - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover

As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot's band was headed instead to join "hostile"...
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

STEPHEN KOTKIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power...
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Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison

Michael Daly - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

In 1903, on Coney Island, an elephant named Topsy was electrocuted, and over the past century, this bizarre, ghoulish execution has reverberated through popular culture with the whiff of urban legend. But it really happened, and many historical forces conspired to bring Topsy, Thomas Edison,...
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Tragedy at Chu Lai: Reconstructing a Deadly Grenade Accident in a U.S. Army Classroom in Vietnam, July 10, 1969

David Venditta - McFarland & Company
Format: Paperback

Nicky Venditti, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with a love of fast cars and practical jokes, went to Vietnam in 1969 and was dead in 11 days, killed by an Americal Division grenade training explosion at Chu Lai. The full story of the incident did not come out until the author, David Venditta...
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Modern China: All That Matters

Jonathan Clements - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback

A fascinating and provocative look at modern China Author Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see their country. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform....
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! 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 Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about...
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Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years

Ian Mortimer - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

History's greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, takes us on an eye-opening and expansive journey through the last millennium of human innovation. In Millennium, bestselling historian Ian Mortimer takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the last ten centuries of Western history. It is a journey...
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

Gary J. Bass - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A riveting historymdashthe first full accountmdashof the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan shaped the fate of Asia and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world todayGiving...
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Churchill and the Dardanelles

Christopher M Bell - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

In 1915, Winston Churchill's political career was nearly destroyed when the Allied fleet failed to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles. For over a century, Churchill has been both praised and condemned for his role in launching this highly controversial naval campaign....
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The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years

Edward Gross - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

This is the unauthorized, uncensored and unbelievable true story behind the making of a pop culture phenomenon. The original Star Trek series debuted in 1966 and has spawned five TV series spin-offs and a dozen feature films, with an upcoming one from Paramount arriving in 2016....
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The Romans: All That Matters

John Manley - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback

Take a fascinating and provocative look at the Romans and their empire How did a rather obscure settlement spread over a few hills on the banks of the Tiber come to dominate the lives of 65 million people? What drove this relentless desire to conquer? How did Rome manage to maintain direct...
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Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation

Steve Vogel - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.   In the summer...
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (P.S.)

Mitchell Zuckoff - Harper Perennial
Format: Hardcover

Agripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned...
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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

Todd Miller - City Lights Books
Format: Paperback

"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics. . . . Miller's book arrives at a moment...
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The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case

Pat Brown - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback

A world-renowned criminal profiler takes a fascinating look at one of the most tragic mysteries in history. For more than two thousand years, the great pharaoh Cleopatra VII has been portrayed as a failed monarch. Various ancient sources state that she desperately ended her life with the bite...
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Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

Rick Stroud - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit...
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Raising Children in the Military

Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Military life places unique demands on military families with children including frequent moves, disruptions in schooling, family separation, health care issues, loss of friends, financial hardships, underemployment of military spouses, and the ever present threat of risk of injury or death...
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My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

Andrew Carroll - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters, a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, centered on an intimate portrait of General Pershing, drawing on a rich trove of newly uncovered letters Based on an astonishing collection of letters...
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Avenging Angels: Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps

Li︠u︡bovʹ Vinogradova - MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover

Beginning in 1942, with the Eastern Front having claimed the lives of several million Soviet soldiers, Stalin's Red Army began drafting tens of thousands of women, most of them in their teens or early twenties, to defend against the Nazi invasion. Some volunteered, but most were given...
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The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812

George C. Daughan - Basic Books; First American Edition edition
Format: Book

A few months after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out in the USS Essex on an epic, seventeen-month cruise to the South Seas. Porter was pursuing fame and riches, and by most accounts his odyssey was a stunning success: it brought glory to the fledgling American...
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The Borgias: The Hidden History

G.J. Meyer - Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers...
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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War

Steven Pressfield - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory...
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Viet Thanh Nguyen - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War -- a conflict...
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Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill

J Randy Taraborrelli - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill."Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters...
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Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now:

Various - Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which...
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Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military

Tanya Biank - NAL; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in todays militarythe professional and personal challenges that confront female soldiers from the combat zone to the home front... Since 911, more than 240,000 women soldiers...
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

Michael Kranish - Scribner
Format: Print book

Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life...
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The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future

Roger D.Launius - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

Comprehensive illustrated guide to the history of U.S. and international space exploration, both manned and unmannedThroughout history, humans have been fascinated by space. From the Babylonian astronomers of 700 BCE who charted the paths of planets, to the ancient Inca and Aztec builders...
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper...
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny

ANDREW ROBERTS - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind...
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Trotsky: A Biography

Robert Service - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival...
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A Path to Peace: A Brief History of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and a Way Forward in the Middle East

George Mitchell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Finally, a way forward in the Middle East: The answer to why Israel and Palestine's attempts at negotiation have failed and a practical roadmap for bringing peace to this complicated, troubled region.George Mitchell knows how to bring peace to troubled regions. He was the primary architect...
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Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest

Jacques Soustelle - Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback

The subject of this book is the life of the Mexicans -- the Mexica, as they said themselves -- at the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time, in the early 1500s, nobody, from the arid steppes of the north to the burning jungles of the isthmus, from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico...
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The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama

Joe Sacco - Jonathan Cape
Format: Product Bundle

The Great War July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme. It is an illustrated panorama with an essay by Adam Hochschild. Sacco's work [is] the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium. (GQ) . Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize...
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

Bob Drury - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook

An acclaimed New York Times bestseller, selected by Salon as a best book of the year, the astonishing untold story of the life and times of Sioux warrior Red Cloud: "a page-turner with remarkable immediacy ... and the narrative sweep of a great Western" (The Boston Globe) .Red...
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Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice

Scott Helman - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book

In the tradition of 102 Minutes and Columbine, the definitive book on the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, written by reporters from The Boston Globe and published to coincide with the first anniversary of the tragedyLong Mile Home will tell the gripping...
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Year Zero: A History of 1945

Ian Buruma - Penguin Press HC, The; First edition
Format: Print book

A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change...
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The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero

James S Robbins - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover

The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custerfrom cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated...
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Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity

Michael Scott - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

"As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world."Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and RubiconTwenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation...
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The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters

Anthony Pagden - Random House
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.   Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression....
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Paperback

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage...
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond...
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The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe

Stephen Harding - Da Capo Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent...
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By the 1850s the downtrodden included...
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

SARAH SMARSH - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling...
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The American West: A Very Short Introduction

Stephen Aron - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book

Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the...
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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

Denise Kiernan - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller "A soaring and gorgeous American story" (Karen Abbott) from the author of the New York Times bestselling The Girls of Atomic City. The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore - the largest, grandest...
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Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton

Tilar J. Mazzeo - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days. Fans fell...
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The Wild West in Color: A Photographic Account of our Nation's Westward Expansion

John C Guntzelman - Voyageur Press
Format: Print book

Re-explore the Wild West, where America's legends and myths were made, for the first time with fully-colorized images by bestselling author and cinematographer, John Guntzelman. The lure of the Wild West has been a driving force in the American experience. Originally the stuff of dreams,...
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Gettysburg: The Graphic History of America's Most Famous Battle and the Turning Point of The Civil War

Wayne Vansant - Zenith Press; First Edition, First edition

The Battle of Gettysburg is a landmark event in United States history. Widely recognized as the Civil Wars turning point, it accounted for the most casualties of any battle during the war and spelled the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.In this powerful graphic history, Wayne Vansant...
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Coyote America

Dan Flores - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall...
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American Entrepreneur: How 400 Years of Risk-Takers, Innovators, and Business Visionaries Built the U.S.A.

Willie Robertson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The CEO of Duck Commander and star of Duck Dynasty tells the stories of the extraordinary men and women who symbolize the American entrepreneurial spirit. 100,000 first printing.
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A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

Carol Reardon - The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

In this lively guide to the Gettysburg battlefield, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler invite readers to participate in a tour of this hallowed ground. Ideal for carrying on trips through the park as well as for the armchair historian, this book includes comprehensive maps and deft descriptions...
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American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why

Mark Stein - Palgrave MacMillan
Format: Hardcover

In American Panic , New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless...
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

NATHANIEL PHILBRICK - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant AmbitionIn the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life

Nancy Koester - Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery...
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My Father and Atticus Finch (Center Point Large Print)

Joseph Madison Beck - Center Point
Format: Large Print

"A memoir about the authors father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird"--
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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

Vivien Spitz - Sentient Publications
Format: Hardcover

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 23 men torturing and killing by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism. Doctors...
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart...
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Tibet: The Lost Civilization

Simon Normanton - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

Uses photographs and first-hand accounts by Western visitors to describe the Tibetan culture and society prior to annexation by Communist China
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Celtic Myths and Legends Series

T W Rolleston - Bracken Books
Format: Hardcover

Celtic origins, heroes, and stories spring to life in T. W. Rolleston's classic work, Celtic Myths and Legends. Spanning thousands of years and across thousands of miles, these myths and legends offer a glimpse into worlds long gone that continue to influence modern culture.
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Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction

Steven Beller - Oxford University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism...
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Goshen County

Vickie Zimmer - Arcadia
Format: Paperback

Either a French trapper named Goshe or the biblical Land of Goshen was responsible for the name given to Wyoming's southeast region. In 1911, the Wyoming Legislature approved a bill to create Goshen County, and it was signed by Gov. Joseph Carey. The county was extracted from Laramie...
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Africa: A Modern History

Guy Arnold - Atlantic Books
Format: Hardcover

The end of World War II signaled the end of the European African empires. In 1945, four African countries were independent; by 1963, 30 African states created the Organization of African Unity. The 1960s were a time of optimism as Africans enjoyed their new independence, witnessed increases...
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You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War

Sid Phillips - Dutton Caliber
Format: Paperback

Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, Alabama, when he plunged into the jungles of Guadalcanal in August 1942... A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he entered combat with the Japanese. Some two years...
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The Vikings

Ren Chartrand - Osprey Publishing
Format: Print book

The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors continue to capture the popular imagination to this day. They made history, establishing the dukedom of Normandy, providing the Byzantine Emperors' bodyguard, and landing on the shores of America 500 years before...
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Diving for Starfish: The Jeweler, the Actress, the Heiress, and One of the World's Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry

Cherie Burns - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Both a history of fine jewelry coming out of Paris in the Golden Age and a tour through the secretive world of high-end, privately-sold jewelry, Diving for Starfish is a stylish detective story with a glittering piece of jewelry at its heart. In the mid 1930s, in the workroom of the famous...
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The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe

Jeffrey L. Singman - Sterling; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armor, and the idealized noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, the medieval world comes to life in all its rich daily experience....
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The Russian Revolution: A New History

Sean McMeekin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:...
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The Vikings

Neil Oliver - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Print book

An archaeologist goes beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth, in a new and groundbreaking history An archaeologist goes beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth, in a new and groundbreaking history. The Vikings famously took no prisoners,...
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England

Thomas Penn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heapa fugitive with a flimsy claim to Englands throne. For many he remained...
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Through Early Yellowstone: Adventuring by Bicycle, Covered Wagon, Foot, Horseback, and Skis

T H Thomas - Granite Peak
Format: Print book

An anthology of entertaining accounts of travel through Yellowstone, this book takes readers back to 1871, before it was a tourist destination, through the time when autos were allowed into the park. The adventurers include an intrepid mother who posted the sign "Park or Bust"...
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century...
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Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Führer

Hellmut G. Haasis - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Georg Elser was just an ordinary working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all changed when he took it upon himself, without telling his family or friends, to single-handedly attempt to assassinate...
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Dog Company: A True Story of Battlefield Courage, Taliban Spies, and Soldiers on Trial

Roger Hill - Center St, 2015.
Format: Print book

Two decorated American war heroes survive combat in Afghanistan only to find themselves on an unfamiliar battlefield - the courtroom - in this true story by the commander of Delta Company, 1/506th a.k.a. Dog Company. The deaths of two of his men is agony for Captain Roger Hill and the agony...
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The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents

Ronald Kessler - Crown
Format: Hardcover

As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform on stage for the public and the media. What the nation's leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remains hidden. Secret Service agents have a front row seat on their private lives and those...
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Fort Laramie

Starley Talbott - Arcadia
Format: Paperback

Fort Laramie was one of the most important frontier outposts of the American West. Founded as the trading post Fort William in 1834, the fort became a U.S. military post in 1849. Beginning in 1841, emigrants stopped at Fort Laramie while traveling the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails....
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The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two

Piers Paul Read - Bloomsbury Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

July The German military attachxE in Paris receives a visit from a seedy-looking man who claims to be a French army officer in desperate need of money offering to sell them military secretsCaptain Alfred Dreyfus was a rising star in the French artillery command Reserved yet intelligent...
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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend

Glenn Frankel - Bloomsbury USA; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery...
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California: A History

Kevin Starr - The Modern Library
Format: Hardcover

California has always been our Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State's premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California's history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold,...
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Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army

John P Langellier - Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Format: Print book

From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation's defense. This book breathes new vitality into a stirring subject, emphasizing the role men who have come to be known as "buffalo soldiers" played in opening the Trans-Mississippi...
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All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s

J Harvie Wilkinson, III - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

In this warm and intimate memoir Judge Wilkinson delivers a chilling message. The 1960s inflicted enormous damage on our country; even at this very hour we see the decade's imprint in so much of what we say and do. The chapters reveal the harm done to the true meaning of education,...
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Wyoming's Historic Ranches

Nancy Weidel - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book

Wyoming is so closely identified with ranching that it is often known as the Cowboy State. The prosperity associated with the cattle industry drew wealthy investors to Wyoming Territory in the 1870s and early 1880s. They stocked the range with thousands of cows and made considerable fortunes...
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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

Janny Scott - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money...
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Douglas

Linda Graves Fabian - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Book

The town of Douglas is located in east-central Wyoming in a gentle valley, with the mountains of Medicine Bow National Forest on one side and the beautiful Wyoming plains on the other. Established in 1887 by the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad, the town was named by representatives...
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor

Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero...
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U.S. Marshals: Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency

Mike Earp - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earpa descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earpoffers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nations development for more than...
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation

John Sedgwick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud...
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The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America

Steve Fraser - Basic Books
Format: Print book

No political image in recent American history has enjoyed the impact of the "limousine liberal." It has managed to mobilize an enduring politics of resentment directed against everything from civil rights to women's liberation, from the war on poverty to environmental regulation....
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The Nixon Tapes: 19711972

Douglas Brinkley - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format: Print book

The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations...
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Kara Cooney - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal...
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Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Charles K. Armstrong - Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From the Publisher"This vivid and cogent book . . . asks how the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) poor, stagnant, and isolatedhas continually been able to play international allies, patrons, and enemies against one another to get what it has wanted. . . . Verdict: Read...
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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History

Nick Bunker - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic...
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Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising

Alexandra Richie - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimesIn 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan...
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

LESLIE PEIRCE - Basic Books
Format: Book

The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire.

In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders...

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Gandhi Before India

Ramachandra Guha - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential - and controversial - men in modern history. Ramachandra...
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Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy

Ernie LaPointe - Gibbs Smith; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Ernie LaPointe is the great -grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief, and he presents the family tales and memories told to him about his great-grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Sitting Bull. LaPointe...
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What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life

Marc Leepson - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Book

What So Proudly We Hailed is the first full-length biography of Francis Scott Key in more than 75 years. In this fascinating look at early America, historian Marc Leepson explores the life and legacy of Francis Scott Key. Standing alongside Betsy Ross, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Paul...
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

A J BAIME - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into...
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Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park

Douglas H MacDonald - University of Washington Press
Format: Paperback

Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American...
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Jersey Gold: The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849

Margaret Casterline Bowen - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Hardcover

When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy - prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad - assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some...
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Charles Emmerson - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Book

Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous...
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

CROWN. - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled...
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Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist

Lawrence James - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating and often surprising new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire. One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship...
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against...
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Antarctica

David Day - Oxford University Press
Format:  Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats

Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific...
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The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and Heroes

Carolyne Larrington - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book

An exhilarating introduction to the vivid, violent, boisterous world of the Norse myths and their cultural legacy -- from Tolkien to Game of ThronesThe Norse Myths presents the infamous Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological...
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A History of Modern Indonesia

Adrian Vickers - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover

Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers's book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island...
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Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific

Bill Lascher - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II - a saga of love, adventure, and danger.On New Year's Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese...
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

STEVEN STOLL - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover

Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee...
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Weed Land: Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit

Peter Hecht - University of California Press,
Format: Paperback

Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine,...
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Haunted hotels of northern Colorado

Nancy K Williams - Haunted America
Format: Print book

The haunted hotels of northern Colorado offer chance encounters with wispy apparitions from a fabulous century gone by. The Earl of Dunraven prowls in the night at the Stanley Hotel. Melancholy Carl haunts the halls of the Brook Forest Inn, and Eleanor James tosses pots and pans about at the Elkhorn...
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The Tower: The Tumultuous History of the Tower of London from 1078

Derek Wilson - Charles Scribners Sons
Format: Hardcover

Records the intriguing history of the Tower of London from 1078, when William the Conqueror ordered its construction, through its various functions as palace, fortress, zoo, and mint
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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War

James Wright - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse...
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Ghost Towns of Wyoming

Bruce A Raisch - Donning Co.
Format: Paperback

Ghost Towns of Wyoming, the first in a series of ten ghost town books, is a stunning volume featuring a historical and physical biography of 74 sites, with their history dating back to 1812. While many of these towns are a vanishing breed from a bygone era, a sense of history hangs in the air of their...
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Rise and Fall of the British Empire: From A Superpower to a Fragile Nation

Michael Klein - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

The sudden Rise and Fall of Great Britain should not have come as a surprise to those few persons who study the increase and fall of Empires, and they are acquainted with the lands which, in every single case, have caused their dissolution. No writer who controls a heart can, however, afford...
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

Doug Stanton - ‎Scribner; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters everywhere! "A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times...
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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story

Kenneth G Langone - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades,...
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade

The New Yorker Magazine - Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Including contributions byW. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross...
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter

Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus...
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That's That: A Memoir

Colin Broderick - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from? Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone --the heart of rebel country. In That’s...
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History

John Dickerson - Twelve
Format: Print book

From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego....
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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

Ernest Freeberg - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edisons incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense...
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Valor: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front

Mark Lee Greenblatt - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Print book

Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines have risked their lives several times over for their country as well as for their fellow troops...
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The Waning of the Middle Ages: a Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries

Johan Huizinga - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias

John Dickie - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta,...
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Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution

Giles Milton - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II--a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that...
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

Tim Butcher - Grove Press
Format: Print book

On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo...
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Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

Rorke Denver - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Rorke Denver trains the men who become Navy SEALs--the most creative problem solvers on the modern battlefield, ideal warriors for the kinds of wars America is fighting now. With his years of action-packed mission experience and a top training role, Lieutenant Commander Denver understands...
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Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation

Julie M Fenster - Crown
Format: Print book

The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration - and in presiding over that era of discovery, forged a great nation. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast...
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Women & Power: A Manifesto

MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"A modern feminist classic." -- The GuardianFrom the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack...
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Jill Lepore - Vintage
Format: Print book

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR * Time Magazine * The Washington Post * Entertainment Weekly * The Boston Globe A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians - a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's...
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Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

Wendy Lower - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women...
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

Richard Rubin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover...
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Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women

Elena Favilli - Rebel Girls
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a childrens book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the lives of extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female artists from all over the world.This must-have...
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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed

Gavin Menzies - WilliamMr; 1st Printing edition
Format: Book

Tremendous. This guy has done history like you would not believe.Glenn BeckThe secrets of historys most enduring mystery are finally revealed in The Lost Empire of Atlantis. Through impeccable research and intelligent speculation, Gavin Menzies, the New York Times bestselling author of 1421,...
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Timelines of Science

DK Publishing - DK Publishing
Format: Print book

Now available in paperback, Timelines of Science is an informative guide to the history of scientific discovery and technology. that follows the path chronologically, and explores everything from ancient Greek geometry to quantum physics. Timelines of Science highlights the theories,...
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII

ANTONY BEEVOR - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account.On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane...
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Southeast Asia: Past and Present

D R SarDesai - Routledge
Format: Paperback

Southeast Asia: Past and Present offers a balanced and readable account of the region from ancient to modern times, covering traditional history as well as current events. D. R. SarDesai avoids overemphasizing the importance of the period of European colonial rule as he introduces us to the regions...
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Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom, Shirley MacLaine

Sachi Parker - Gotham
Format: Hardcover

Shirley MacLaine's only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric actressShirley MacLaine is an Academy Award winning actress who has graced Hollywood with her talent for decades, known for her roles in The Apartment, Terms of Endearment,...
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

Doug Mack - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening journey to the most overlooked parts of America.Everyone knows that America is 50 states and ... some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states -- American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin...
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