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by Gerald Linderman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one...
The Fiddler on Pantico Run
An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In this gorgeously written and “vividly fascinating” (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins of his unusual last name and discovers that he comes from one of America’s earliest mixed-race families.
“My dad’s family was a mystery,”...
Storm on the Horizon
Khafji--The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history. Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Morris...
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent...
by C.A. Tripp
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
The late C. A. Tripp, a highly regarded sex researcher and colleague of Alfred Kinsey, and author of the runaway bestseller The Homosexual Matrix, devoted the last ten years of his life to an exhaustive study of Abraham Lincoln's writings and of scholarship about Lincoln, in search of hidden keys...
by D. Clayton James
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Distinguished historian D. Clayton James offers a brilliant reinterpretation of the Korean War conflict. Focusing on the critical issue of command, he shows how the Korean War is a key to understanding American decision-making in all military encounters since World War II.
Korea, the first...
A Magnificent Catastrophe
The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy...
Alexandria
City of the Western Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of the ancient world. Accomplished classicist and author Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His enchanting blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the...
The Bible Unearthed
Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Isreal and the Origin of Sacred Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors.
In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein...
A Country That Works
Getting America Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans' hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing...
Hardball
How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1999
How politics is played by one who knows the game...
Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of...
Autopsy For An Empire
The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells the entire history of the Soviet failure.
Having...
Trotsky
Eternal Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating the system of state terror which was ultimately to lead to the nightmare of Stalinism. This...
Milosevic
Portrait of a Tyrant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1999
Who is Slobodan Milosevic?
Is he the next Saddam Hussein, the leader of a renegade nation who will continue to torment the United States for years to come? Or is he the next Moammar Qaddafi, an international outcast silenced for good by a resolute American bombing campaign?
The war in...