Americas category: 34066 books
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s “lively and absorbing” biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review).
This conclusion to Bruce Catton’s acclaimed history of General Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant’s...
by Albert Kesselring
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
From one of Nazi Germany’s most skillful commanders comes one of the great military autobiographies of World War II.
Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring was one of Germany’s most capable military strategists. Originally a Bavarian army officer, he transferred to the Luftwaffe in 1935 and became...
Lincoln's Lieutenants
The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac
“A masterful synthesis . . . A narrative about amazing courage and astonishing gutlessness . . . It explains why Union movements worked and, more often, didn’t work...
Without Precedent
Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more...
The Deserters
A Hidden History of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
**“Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.” --**The Boston Globe
A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War....
by Sinead Fitzgibbon
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s youngest President, was assassinated barely one thousand days into his Presidency. In the fiftieth anniversary of his death, this is the story of the man who brought an aspirational new approach to American...
Fallen Founder
The Life of Aaron Burr
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough
Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among...
Red Blood, Black Sand
Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A story of heroism, friendship, and courage in World War 2—as seen in the award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific.
In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Marine Division—also known as “The Spearhead”—in preparation for the invasion of the small, Japanese-held island of Iwo...
The Fall of the House of Walworth
A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty
On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes...
by Alexandra Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
A heartrending story of the human spirit from the author of the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller returns with the unforgettable true story of Colton H. Bryant, a soulful boy with a mustang-taming heart who comes of age in the oil fields and open plains of Wyoming....
The Long Road Home
A Story of War and Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
ABC News’ Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism, hope, and heartbreak in her account of “Black Sunday”—a battle during one of the deadliest periods of the Iraq War.
The First Cavalry Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on Sunday...
The Benjamin Franklin Anthology
The Autobiography, The Memoirs, The Silence Dogood Letters and Over 80 Other Works.
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Of all the 'Founding Fathers' of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin left the greatest literary legacy behind him. A noted polymath, as well as a prolific author and printer, Franklin's works span an astonishing array of genres - from his groundbreaking scientific work on electricity,...
by Joanna Stratton
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.”
Never before...
