Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Kangaroo Squadron
American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single U.S. Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy.
Based in Australia with inadequate supplies and no ground support,...
by Mort Rosenblum
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Mort Rosenblum, a celebrated foreign correspondent, invites us aboard his fifty-four-foot launch tied up in the center of Paris and introduces us to the characters who share his life along the river, ranging from eccentric movie stars and reclusive novelists to barge families just scraping by. He...
The Civil War In Kentucky
Battle For The Bluegrass State
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Top scholars contribute to this book of essays on the complex series of battles and political maneuvers for control of Kentucky during the Civil War.
Hitler's Last Plot
The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II
In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine...
To Destroy A City
Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of...
What About Me?
Growing Up With A Developmentally Disabled Sibling
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
A compassionate and accessible guide on living with and caring for a developmentally disabled sibling.
Major Farran's Hat
The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
In May 1947 a sixteen-year-old Jewish activist named Alexander Rubowitz was abducted in broad daylight from the streets of Jerusalem. At the abduction scene, a gray hat was found, purportedly belonging to Major Roy Farran, a decorated World War II officer who was in charge of British counterterrorism...
Pirates
Swashbuckling Stories from the Seven Seas
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The surprising success of Pirates of the Caribbean, a new screen adaptation of the classic Peter Pan, and the Russell Crowe film Master and Commander have fueled interest in seagoing swashbucklers. There is a rich literature on pirates-both in fiction and nonfiction. This collection offers excerpts...
Awake Mind, Open Heart
The Power of Courage and Dignity in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Twenty-five years ago renowned Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche introduced teachings of the Shambhala warrior tradition-teachings that show how we could live as enlightened citizens and help create an advanced society based on fearlessness and non-aggression. Now Awake Mind,...
The Ride
The Jeffrey Curley Murder and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Ride tells the shocking true story of the 1997 abduction and gruesome murder of ten-year-old Massachusetts resident Jeffrey Curley, and how his father, Bob, healed the deep wounds of rage and emerged to become an outspoken critic of the death penalty.
Pass Thru Fire
The Collected Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Containing a body of work that spans more than three decades, Pass Thru Fire is a stunning collection of the lyrics of an American original. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde-Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and...
Jack and Lem
John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
I'm not that kind of boy,” Jack angrily wrote to Lem after his friend made a sexual advance. But Jack didn't end the relationship. From the time John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne Lem” Billings met at Choate, until the President's assassination thirty years later, Jack and Lem remained best friends....
The Trembling Mountain
A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Kuru, like Mad Cow disease, is caused by a rare, infectious crystal protein that invades and colonizes human cells, destroying the nervous system of its victims. There is no known cure. It flourished in one of the remotest places on earth, Papua New Guinea, among the Fore, a people living in the Stone...
by Frank Deford
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Everyone wants a piece of him or to be around him to bask in his glory, including his nephew...