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Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
David G. Marwell · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided... |
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Barry Strauss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.
Barry Strauss's Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention,... |
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New Orleans: The First 300 Years
Errol Laborde · Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Get to know one of the most unique cities in the world! New Orleans is unlike anywhere else on Earththe fusion of cultures, people, and food all establish a whole greater than its constituent parts. From migration to politics to music to ethnic culture and identity, this comprehensive volume... |
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Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Leslie Berlin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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The richly told narrative of the Silicon Valley generation that launched five major high-tech industries in seven years, laying the foundation for today's technology-driven world.
At a time when the five most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms and nearly half of Americans... |
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired... |
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Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
Peter Caddick-Adams · Oxford University Press
Pages: 1072
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel... |
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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
Simon Winder · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 551
Format: Hardcover
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A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores,... |
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One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
Bing West · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion. Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon... |
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Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars
Clint Johnson · Regnery History
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged "against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected." Those were the words Lieutenant Commander Robert Copeland calmly told his crew as their tiny, unarmored destroyer... |
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