Anchor imprint: 1481 books
by Elia Kazan, Martin Scorsese
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a...
Where Men Win Glory
The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan...
A Life in Secrets
Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II.
As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives...
Ghost Soldiers
The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
“The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March.
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged...
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...
Joan of Arc
A Life Transfigured
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George...
Isabella
The Warrior Queen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history
Born at a time when Christianity...
Drake's Fortune
The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
His scam was as simple as it was brazen. Before and during the Great Depression, Oscar Hartzell persuaded tens of thousands of Midwesterners to part with millions of dollars to start a legal fund that would see the mythical fortune of Sir Francis Drake restored to his rightful heir. In return for...
Birdseye
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
Before Their Time
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
in this memoir of his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the US Third Army during World War II, Kotlowitz brings to life the harrowing story of the massacre of his platoon in northeastern France, in which he--by playing dead--was the only one to survive. 208 pp. 15,000 print.
Chasing the Last Laugh
Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humor
Mark Twain, the highest-paid...
The House of Wittgenstein
A Family at War
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history,...
by Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.
The State of Jones is a true story about...
In For a Penny, In For a Pound
The Adventures and Misadventures of a Wireless Operator in Bomber Command
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
The gripping story of the twentieth century’s greatest struggle in the modest voice of a Canadian teenager in the RAF.
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Howard Hewer dreamed of being the next Billy Bishop, of piloting Spitfires or Hurricanes over Europe. His dream was shattered when he was selected...