Americas category: 34066 books
A Great Improvisation
Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career
In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin--seventy...
by John Reynolds Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
The American Civil War was one of the most harrowing conflicts in history. What many of us don't know is the key role that spies played on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line during the four-year struggle. This secret war was waged by an intriguing lineup of participants: detective agency chief Allan...
by Harold Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
President Lincoln used his own weapons—his words— to fight the Civil War as brilliantly as any general who ever took the field. In Lincoln on War, historian Harold Holzer gathers and interprets Lincoln’s speeches, letters, memoranda, orders, telegrams, and casual remarks, organizing them chronologically...
The First American
The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America’s first...
The Bridge at Remagen
A Story of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
It was a stunning strategic victory of World War II–and one of the most fantastic breaks for the Allies. On March 7, 1945, a small group of American infantrymen, engineers, and tank crews secured the Ludendorff Bridge that crossed the Rhine. The successful mission saved thousands of American lives...
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American.
General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few...
The Spymistress
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of “a true Union woman as true as steel” who risked everything by caring for Union prisoners of war — and stealing Confederate...
by Richard M. Ketchum
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
"The finest historian of the American Revolution." Douglas Brinkley. For all his fame and familiarity, George Washington remains something of an enigma - the stiff portrait on the dollar bill. But his story is full of drama. Here, acclaimed historian Richard Ketchum brings America's first president’s life to vivid life.
The Class of 1846
From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Br others
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
No single group of men at West Point--or possibly any academy--has been so indelibly written into history as the class of 1846. The names are legendary: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, George B. McClellan, Ambrose Powell Hill, Darius Nash Couch, George Edward Pickett, Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox,...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian looks at the complex, controversial Union commander who ensured the Confederacy’s downfall in the Civil War.
In this New York Times bestseller, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics...
Without Hesitation
The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
The powerful unvarnished memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during 9/11, and one of the leading military figures of our time
Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and...
The Statesman and the Storyteller
John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In a dual biography covering the last ten years of the lives of friends and contemporaries, writer Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and statesman John Hay (who served as secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt), The Statesman and the Storyteller not only provides...
Death of a King
The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times bestselling...
by Marshall W. Fishwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
In December 1606, when they set sail from London for the Virginia coast, the people aboard the three ships anticipated the best. They would establish a British colony, find gold, and discover a water route to Asia. But what awaited them was far different - fire, hunger, sickness, death, even cannibalism....