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Handel in London: A Genius and His Craft
Jane Glover - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and evocative account of the life and work of one of the world's favorite composers -- from the acclaimed author of Mozart's Women.In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King... |
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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling historian and Pulitzer prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent.William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen... |
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Andrea Pitzer
Format: Hardcover
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The human story has always been one of perseverance - often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar... |
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
Steve Twomey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible... |
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Ocan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
J. P. Daughton - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The epic story of the Congo-Ocan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.The Congo-Ocan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands... |
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Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
Natalie Dykstra - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The hidden story of one of the most fascinating women of the Gilded AgeClover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where... |
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
Jackson Lears - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his gameat once engaging and tightly argued. The New York Times Book Review Dazzling cultural history smart, provocative, and gripping. It is also a book for our times, historically grounded, hopeful, and filled with humane,... |
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Water: A Biography
Giulio Boccaletti
Format: Hardcover
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Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boc-caletti-honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Univer-sity of Oxford-shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civ-ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile,... |
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