Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
The Great Wall
The Extraordinary Story of China's Wonder of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
It is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists journey to the Great Wall of China, and a myriad of photographs have made it familiar to millions more. Yet its story remains mysterious and steeped in myth.
In this riveting account, John Man travels the entire length...
Those Damned Rebels
The American Revolution As Seen Through British Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Using firsthand accounts-journals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the colonies-Michael Pearson has provided a contemporary report of the Revolution as the British witnessed it. Seen from this perspective, some of the major events of the war are given...
by John J. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
In Brooklyn, New York, for a few tense hours in 1776, the fate of the entire United States hung by a thread. The Battle of Brooklyn (sometimes called "The Battle of Long Island") has since come to be recognized as one of history's great battles.
It was the largest clash of the Revolution,...
Chiang Kai Shek
China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most...
The 900 Days
The Siege Of Leningrad
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died. For twenty-five years the distinguished journalist and historian Harrison Salisbury pieced together this remarkable narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had much to fear-from both Hitler and Stalin.
Panzer Operations
The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
German general Erhard Raus was one of the most talented commanders to fight on the Eastern Front in Russia, where he was eventually appointed to army group command in early 1945. By the time the war ended, Raus had established a reputation as one of the German army's foremost tacticians of armored...
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King
A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Late in 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man in the Iron Mask. From a glorious zenith as Louis XIV's first minister and Cardinal Mazarin's protégé and eventual protector; builder...
General Ulysses S. Grant
The Soldier and the Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G. Longacre, examines Grant's early life and his military career for insights into his great battlefield successes as well as his personal misfortunes. Longacre concentrates on Grant's boyhood and early married...
A Crime in the Family
A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War II
One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders...
Cell 2455, Death Row
A Condemned Man's Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. Maintaining his innocence of these crimes, Chessman lived...
Hannibal's Oath
The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
According to the ancient sources, Hannibal was nine years old when his father led him to the temple at Carthage and dipped the young boy's hands in the blood of the sacrificial victim. Before those gods, Hannibal swore an oath of eternal hatred toward Rome.
Few images in history have managed...
Six Women of Salem
The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who...
Joshua Chamberlain
The Solider And The Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Joshua Chamberlain became the "hero of Gettysburg" when he and his regiment, the 20th Maine, bravely held Little Round Top against a determined Rebel assault. Chamberlain's reputation as a celebrated soldier continued to grow in the decades that followed the war. Yet, Joshua Chamberlain,...
Kursk
The German View
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
The battle of Kursk, fought in the summer of 1943, involved six thousand German and Soviet armored vehicles, making it the biggest tank battle of all time and possibly the largest battle of any kind. Students of military history have long recognized the importance of Kursk, also known as "Operation...