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11 Days in December
Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In 11 Days In December, master historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub tells the remarkable story of the Battle of the Bulge as it has never been told before, from frozen foxholes to barn shelters to boxcars packed with wretched prisoners of war.
In late December 1944, as the Battle of the...
15 Stars
Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to three five-star generals as its greatest heroes. George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur personified victory, from the Pentagon to Normandy to the Far East. Counterparts and on occasion competitors, they had leapfrogged...
by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on the Origin of Inequality, he outlines his own history of the development of human society. He explains in general terms how the differences between social and economic classes arose alongside the formation of modern states. He also explores the means by which...
Against All Enemies
Inside America's War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2004
"The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda....A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing...
Sala's Gift
My Mother's Holocaust Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
"Do you know why I write so much? Because as long as you read, we are together."
-- Raizel Garncarz (Sala's sister),
April 24, 1941
Few family secrets have the power both to transform lives and to fill in crucial gaps in world history. But then, few families have a mother and a daughter quite...
The Book of Dahlia
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and irreverence, mining an exhilarating blend of...
The Conservative Revolution
The Movement that Remade America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1999
The triumph of the conservative movement in reshaping American politics is one of the great untold stories of the past fifty years. At the end of World War II, hardly anyone in public life would admit to being a conservative, but as Lee Edwards shows in this magisterial work, in the 1950s, 1960s,...
When the Center Held
Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“A personal look behind the scenes” (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant.
In the wake of Richard Nixon’s...
Into the Rising Sun
In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veteran
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
"Iwo Jima was a massacre. I never expected anything like that. People were dying left and right...No names should have been used on the flag raisings because we didn't get up there by ourselves. It was the collective actions of a lot of people and there were a lot of Raiders and paratroopers up there...
The New Face of War
How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
As American and coalition troops fight the first battles of this new century -- from Afghanistan to Yemen to the Philippines to Iraq -- they do so in ways never before seen. Until recently, information war was but one piece of a puzzle, more than a sideshow in war but far less than the sum total of...
The Foreigner's Gift
The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The fall of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime brought the first glimpse of freedom for Iraq and unleashed elation, resentment, and chaos. On the one hand, there is hope: the Iraqi people have their first chance at independence. On the other hand, there is despair: the country is exploding with violent...
LBJ
Architect of American Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
For almost forty years, the verdict on Lyndon Johnson's presidency has been reduced to a handful of harsh words: tragedy, betrayal, lost opportunity. Initially, historians focused on the Vietnam War and how that conflict derailed liberalism, tarnished the nation's reputation, wasted lives, and eventually...
Beyond Valor
World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Previous books have promised to describe the combat experience of the World War II GI, but there has never been a book like Patrick O'Donnell's Beyond Valor. Here is the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves, and perhaps the most honest and brutal account of...
Overlord
General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical A
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Over Lord is the fascinating story of how American tactical air power was developed by General Elwood "Pete" Quesada during World War II, including its decisive role in Operation OVERLORD and the liberation of Europe.
Pete Quesada is one of World War II's unsung yet crucial heroes. With his famous...