Cooper Press imprint: 103 books
Tutankhamun
The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
The discovery of Tutankhamun's treasure-filled tomb is one of the greatest events in modern archeology. It is also a story so filled with intrigues, accusations, international imbroglios, and lasting scandals that it forever altered the way archaeological expeditions were organized and conducted....
Corregidor
The American Alamo of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Told in the voices of the soldiers, doctors, and nurses who were the untested but valiant defenders of Corregidor, the tiny island fortress of Generals Macarthur and Wainwright; Corregidor is the remarkable history of forty American and Filipino survivors. Before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen...
The Dream and the Tomb
A History of the Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2000
This is a comprehensive account of the eight religious wars between the Christian West and the Muslim East that dominated the Middle Ages. Calling themselves "pilgrims of Christ," thousands of Europeans from all stations in life undertook the harsh and bloody quest to reclaim Jerusalem, the Church...
Life As I Find It
A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000
Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader
From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging interests and talents, and his literary output went far beyond his Holmes and Watson stories. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader collects works from all...
City Under Siege
Richmond in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy when Virginia joined the Southern cause, marking the city as a prime target for the Union army. General McClellan was the first Union leader to lay siege to Richmond, and that was just the beginning. The attractive and genteel city of Richmond would be...
Japan's War
The Great Pacific Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully addresses some of the biggest questions left from the Pacific front of World War II.
Warlord
Tojo Against the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2001
Vilified in the West as the Japanese equivalent of Hitler, Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was in fact cut from very different cloth. Lacking the skills and charisma of a statesman, fueled by no apocalyptic visions, Tojo was an unimaginative soldier whose primary goals were to establish Japan's military strength...
Roe v. Wade
The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that Made Abortion Legal
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
From the back-alley clinics of illegal abortionists to the behind-the scene deliberations of the Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade is a riveting history of the thorniest ethical debate ever brought before the Supreme Court. this is the bull story behind the struggle of two lawyers, Sarah Weddington...
Clausewitz
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz (1780-1831), Prussian general and military theorist, is most famous for his book On War, a work that has influenced numerous wartime leaders from Lenin to Henry Kissinger. Parkinson's biography of Clausewitz provides detailed examinations of the Napoleonic battles...
Edge of the World
Ross Island, Antarctica A Personal and Historical Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, Tragedy, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Writer and explorer Charles Neider made his first trip to Antarctica in 1969, achieving a lifelong goal of seeing the frozen continent with his own eyes. During this visit and a return trip in 1970, both backed by the U. S. Navy and the National Science Foundation, Neider discovered the rigor and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2002
Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and 20th century Western European giants such as...
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis
Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
The Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime, from 1933 to 1945. Unlike the Jews and others persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by renouncing their religious beliefs. The vast majority...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
Ten classic short novels appear in this collection by noted editor Neider. The contents include: Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, Notes from Underground by F. M. Dostoyevsky, A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, The Death of Ivan Ilych by L. N. Tolstoy, The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Ward No. 6...