Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini
The Most Infamous Commando Operation of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
As the Allied invasion of Italy wore on through the summer of 1943, Mussolini was unexpectedly overthrown and imprisoned by his own people in a remote mountaintop resort. Hitler was furious when he heard the news and swore to rescue his ally and friend. On September 12, a small convoy of glider aircraft...
An American Trilogy
Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
The Cape Fear River runs through Bladen County, North Carolina, population 33,000. On its western bank, in the town of Tar Heel, sits the largest slaughterhouse in the world. Deep below the slaughterhouse, one may find the arrowheads of Siouan-speaking peoples who roamed there for a millennium. Nearer...
More Fun in the New World
The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene, with 50 rare photos
Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle...
The Castaway's War
One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young US Navy lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese
In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging...
Dogfight over Tokyo
The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace
When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on...
Underwater to Get Out of the Rain
A Love Affair With the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
On a hot summer's day there could be no quicker transport to the seaside than Trevor Norton's cool and entrancing account of a lifetime's adventures under or near the water. Norton's eye for the bizarre, amazing, and beautiful inhabitants of the oceans, and the eccentric characters who work, study,...
by Jaed Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram--thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement,...
Marye's Heights
Fredericksburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Fredericksburg was one of the most tragic battles of the Civil War. No sector was more hotly contested than the area held by Longstreet's troops and known as Marye's Heights. While the heights seemed impregnable to the charging Union troops, Longstreet's men took heavy casualties and many times felt...
Always On
How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers,...
by A. C. Ping
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Do you seek creativity? Do you crave answers? Is this the right relationship? Is this the best job? Nothing is certain, everything changes, and the only way to find answers is to stop analyzing things and do! The cut-to-the-chase, jargon-free perfect sequel to Be, A. C. Ping's Do is packed full with...
Human Trials
Scientists, Investors, And Patients In The Quest For A Cure
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
Susan Quinn's extraordinary story takes the reader into the closed world of experimental "human trials" in which new drugs are developed. Both the portrait of a dedicated scientist and the archetypal story of all medical research, Human Trials is the emotion-laden, roller-coaster trip from...
Four Years With The Iron Brigade
The Civil War Journal Of William Ray, Company F, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The recently discovered journal of William Ray of the Seventh Wisconsin is the most important primary source ever of soldier life in one of the war's most famous fighting organizations. No other collection of letters or diaries comes close to it.Two days before his regiment left Wisconsin in 1861,...
Terrible Swift Sword
The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman’s famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South,...
Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye
A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
“I like to go out for walks, but it’s a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time.”—housewife from Churchill, Manitoba
Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the...