Grove Press imprint: 1036 books
Che Guevara
A Revolutionary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life,...
The Last Narco
Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
“Malcolm Beith risked life and limb to tell the inside story of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, Mexico’s notorious drug capo.” —George W. Grayson, author of Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?
The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, were home to the most powerful drug lord...
The Private Lives of the Tudors
Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
England’s Tudor monarchs—Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I—are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their political triumphs, and their overturning of the religious order are the subject of countless works of...
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “brilliantly written and meticulously researched” biography of royal family life during England’s second Tudor monarch (San Francisco Chronicle).
Either annulled, executed, died in childbirth, or widowed, these were the well-known fates of the six queens during the tempestuous, bloody,...
1942
The Year That Tried Men's Souls
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
America’s first year in World War II, chronicled in this “page-turner” by the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump and The Generals (Publishers Weekly).
On December 7, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand...
by Ana Menéndez
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Eleven short stories of the Cuban immigrant experience as characters adjust to life in the United Sates, from an award-winning author.
From the prize–winning title story—a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak—unfolds a collection of tales that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community...
Thunder Run
The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter provides a brilliant account of the harrowing drive into Baghdad by an American armor brigade.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military...
The Deserter's Tale
The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . A substantial contribution to history.”-Los Angeles TimesNow in paperback, The Deserter’s Tale is the first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of the American military campaign....
Apache
Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“A truly amazing portrayal of the technical, the emotional, and the courageous. Macy puts the reader in the cockpit of our most lethal attack platform.” —Dick Couch, New York Times–bestselling author
Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot,...
The Great Wall
China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “gripping, colorful” history of China’s Great Wall that explores the conquests and cataclysms of the empire from 1000 BC to the present day (Publishers Weekly).
Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese...
My Friend the Mercenary
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
**“Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors who fight in 21st-century Africa . . . and tribute to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms.” —**Kirkus Reviews
In February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show...
A Storm in Flanders
The Ypres Salient, 1914–1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump: “A fascinating, evenhanded, page-turning account” of Ypres’s pivotal WWI battles (San Francisco Chronicle).
The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded territory in all of World War I—possibly of...
Shrouds of Glory
From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump examines Confederate general John Bell Hood’s fateful maneuvers in the final moments of the Civil War.
In Shrouds of Glory, acclaimed novelist and historian Winston Groom introduces readers to the courageous but reckless Hood, prematurely...
by Ivan Klíma
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
An intimate autobiography by the acclaimed dissident writer, spanning six explosive decades of twentieth century Eastern Europe.
Klíma’s story begins in the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague where he grew up unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage. It came as a surprise when his family was transported...