Broadway Books imprint: 808 books
by Jack Weatherford
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the...
The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The best true spy story I have ever read.”**—JOHN LE CARRÉ
The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end...
Rat Pack Confidential
Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1999
For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank brought his best pals to party in a land called Vegas
January 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Strip is a jet-age theme park, and the greatest singer in the history of American popular music summons a group of friends...
The Knife Man
Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared.
From humble origins, John Hunter rose to...
Fatal Voyage
The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, the Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. The ship had just left the island of Tinian, delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. As the torpedoes hit, the Indianapolis erupted into...
Forgotten Fatherland
The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of...
The Gift of Valor
A War Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
The true story of US Marine Corporal Jason Dunham's brave act that saved fellow Marines and earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Corporal Dunham was on patrol near the Syrian border, on April 14, 2004, when a black-clad Iraqi leaped out of a car and grabbed him around his neck. Fighting...
The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon
The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorian
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Born to fanatically snobbish Victorian parents, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. She was supposed to marry well and restore the family fortune, but soon proved to have other ideas. Her scandalous affair with a married man and her defiant marriage to the less-than-prosperous...
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret
A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge...
Orphans Preferred
The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
“WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED.”
—California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860
The Pony Express is one of the most celebrated and enduring chapters in the history of the United States, a story of the...
The Ghost Mountain Boys
Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world’s largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for...
Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan
Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Ronald Reagan, one of America’s most beloved presidents, is now gone. But his voice lives on in this stirring and very personal collection of letters written during his presidency to his fellow Americans, showing us a new and surprisingly intimate side of our fortieth president.
During even...
Ben Macintyre's World War II Espionage Files
Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, two thrilling accounts of World War II espionage, are available together as an ebook—with an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Double Cross.
AGENT ZIGZAG • “Wildly improbably but entirely true . . . [a] compellingly cinematic spy thriller...
Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 20th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound...