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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more... |
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Craig Taylor - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people -- from the best-selling author of Londoners.In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic.... |
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The Yank: The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army
JOHN CRAWLEY - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible - then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict . . . The Irish "Troubles" were... |
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The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
Brad Miner - Regnery Gateway; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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The catalog of masculine sins grows by the day - mansplaining, manspreading, toxic masculinity - reflecting our confusion over what it means to be a man. Is a man's only choice between the brutish, rutting #MeToo lout and the gelded imitation woman, endlessly sensitive and fun to go shopping... |
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Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
John Higgs - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche - the Beatles and the Bond films - and what they tell us about class, sexuality, and our aspirations over sixty dramatic years.The Beatles are the biggest band in the history of pop music. James... |
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Robert Gerwarth - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I -- conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth centuryFor the Western Allies, November 11, 1918, has always been a solemn... |
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a... |
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Julian Sancton - Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback
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In August 1897, thirty-one-year-old commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail aboard the Belgica, fueled by a profound sense of adventure and dreams of claiming glory for his native Belgium. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. But the commandant's... |
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