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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
Antony Beevor - Viking
Format: Book
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The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could... |
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
BRIAN MERCHANT - ?Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work - and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech... |
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Clanlands Almanac
Sam Heughan - Mobius
Format: Book
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A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland.If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks up the book to join us on a crazy camper... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas - Dutton Caliber
Format: Book
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial... |
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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
Lucy Ward - ?Oneworld Publications
Format: Book
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The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.'Sparkling history ... with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The Times... |
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The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II
David Chrisinger - Penguin Audio
Format: Book
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A beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World War II a human face for millions of Americans even as he wrestled with his own demonsAt the height of his fame and influence during World War II, Ernie Pyle's nationally syndicated... |
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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
David J Silverman - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Book
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The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured.... |
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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
Brooke Kroeger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present. Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's... |
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