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First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent

Lorissa Rinehart - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against...
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."...
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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton - ‎Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were...
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V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

Craig Nelson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy"...
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What the Taliban Told Me

Ian Fritz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through...
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History

Tracy Borman - ‎Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, ElizabethMuch of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas...
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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic...
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER. "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction...
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of TinseltownFrom the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all -- a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating...
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To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

Bret Baier - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how George Washington saved the Constitution-and the American experiment"To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a young United States."...
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