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Hearts Grown Brutal
Sagas of Sarajevo
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.
“I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived for seventy-three years, as a human one,” Cohen...
by Michael Beschloss
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executives
BILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LIST
Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh,...
The Philosopher's Stone
Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Prolific author Joseph P. Farrell, who commands a growing and devoted audience on Coast to Coast AM, Erskine Overnight, and other programs, initiates his Feral House association with The Philosopher’s Stone, in which he demonstrates the connections of modern physics and ancient alchemy by investigating...
Ordinary Geniuses
How Two Mavericks Shaped Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
A biography of two maverick scientists whose intellectual wanderlust kick-started modern genomics and cosmology.
Max Delbruck and George Gamow, the so-called ordinary geniuses of Segre's third book, were not as famous or as decorated as some of their colleagues in midtwentieth-century physics,...
Given Up For Dead
American GIs in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
During World War II, prisoners of war were required by the Geneva Conventions to be treated according to established rules. But in late 1944, when a large number of Americans were captured or surrendered during the Battle of the Bulge and elsewhere, their captors had different plans. Those who were...
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion
Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
A soldier’s true story of danger and adventure as a modern-day legionnaire in Kuwait, Bosnia, and beyond.
With no French language ability, Alex Lochrie approached recruiters for the French Foreign Legion in Paris and embarked on the demanding selection process that followed. When he was accepted,...
Leprosy and Colonialism
Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people...
Scipio Africanus
Greater Than Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
From one of the most brilliant military historians of our time, this is the classic biography of Rome's greatest general and the victor over Rome's greatest enemy, Hannibal
Scipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost...
The Storm Gathering
The Penn Family and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1992
Treese's book provides a popular history of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period from the vantage point of the heirs of William Penn.
Most Pennsylvanians are familiar with the story of William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a haven for religious dissenters. But few...
by Edmund Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only...
Days of Valor An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam
An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade was created from three U.S. infantry battalions of long lineage as a fast reaction force to place in Vietnam. As the book begins in December 1967 the brigade has been at war for a year and many of its battered 12-month men are returning home. The Communists seem to...
The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory
The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Why another book on the Iron Brigade? Because this is really the first book on this storied outfit—and it could not have been written without the lifetime of study undertaken by award-winning author Lance J. Herdegen. More than a standard military account, Herdegen’s latest puts flesh and faces...
Loud and Clear
The Memoir of an Israeli Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
A recently retired Israeli Air Force general and its second-highest-scoring fighter ace, Iftach Spector is one of Israel’s living legends. He was the leader of the flight that attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. After the 1967 and 1973 wars, in which he commanded a squadron of fighter-bombers, he...
Shadow Divers
The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep...