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They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
James Verini - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"They Will Have to Die Now is the story of what happened after most Americans stopped paying attention to Iraq ... It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades." -- George Packer, author of Our Man and The Assassins' GateJames Verini arrived... |
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Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
Stephen Anthony Smith - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve... |
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Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
Peter Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand... |
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Democracy for Hire: A History of American Political Consulting
Dennis W Johnson - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California... |
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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
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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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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
Julia Lovell - The Overlook Press
Format: Paperback
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An engaging, highly readable, character-driven account of the war that transformed China, and which continues to loom large over modern Chinese history. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps,... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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A Few Planes for China: The Birth of the Flying Tigers
Eugenie Buchan - ForeEdge
Format: Hardcover
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On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across thAfter Pearl Harbor, the Japanese seemed... |
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