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God's Secretaries
The Making of the King James Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve, young...
The Man Who Loved China
The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham,...
by Germaine Greer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been interpreted as evidence that she was nothing more than an unfortunate mistake from which Shakespeare did...
Devil at My Heels
A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.
A modern classic by an American legend,* Devil at My Heels* is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor Louis Zamperini. His inspiring...
One Perfect Op
An Insider's Account of the Navy SEAL Special Warfare Teams
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
America’s most elite commando unit, the US Navy SEAL Team Six pulled off one of the most remarkable covert operations in military history when they infiltrated the secret hideout of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in the dead of night and killed the hated terrorist mastermind. Dennis Chalker was an...
Ike
An American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents—a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.
One Matchless Time
A Life of William Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It’s an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” — Houston Chronicle
“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable...
My Prison, My Home
One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
My Prison, My Home is the harrowing true story of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari’s arrest on false charges and subsequent incarceration in Evin Prison, the most notorious penitentiary in Ahmadinejad’s Iran. Esfandiari’s riveting, deeply personal, and illuminating first-person account...
Six Wives
The Queens of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, David Starkey argues that the king was not a depraved philanderer but someone seeking happiness -- and...
by Simon Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
“[A] superb biography….Scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical, and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.”
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka
Simon Dixon’s Catherine the Great is a complete and revealing portrait of an extraordinary...
Warlord
A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
As riveting as the man it portrays, Warlord is a masterful, unsparing portrait of Winston Churchill, one of history’s most fascinating and influential leaders. Carlo D’Este’s definitive chronicle of Churchill’s crucial role in the major military campaigns of the 20th century, Warlord uses...
Masters and Commanders
How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
"Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis.”
—The New York Review of Books
"Britain's finest contemporary military historian."
— The Economist
An epic joint biography of four titanic figures—a President, a Prime Minister, and two Generals—who shaped the grand strategy of the Allies during World War II.
by Robert Schoenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
All I ever did was to sell beer and whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular.
Why, the very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me. Some of the leading judges use the stuff.
When I sell liquor, it's called...