Modern Library imprint: 414 books
Hitler's U-Boat War
The Hunters, 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Clay Blair's best-selling naval classic Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, is regarded as the definitive account of that decisive phase of the war in the Pacific. Nine years in the making, Hitler's U-boat War is destined to become the definitive account of the German submarine war...
The Last 100 Days
The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one...
Farthest North
The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2000
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage...
by Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as 'disgraceful.' And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass 'the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed,' calling it a 'combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the...
by Marlon Brando
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This is Marlon Brando’s own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words:
“I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Portrait of a First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously...
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.
In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass...
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1
A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life...
by Catherine the Great
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Franklin’s Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history, both personal and national, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed “deep...
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A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of all American presidents, left us a vast legacy of writings, some of which are among the most famous in our history. Lincoln was a marvelous writer—from the humblest letter to his great speeches, including his inaugural addresses, the Emancipation Proclamation, and...
Light and Liberty
Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson’s published...
A Middle East Mosaic
Fragments of Life, Letters and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. Yet it was never a one way exchange. From the first Arab embassy to the Vikings in the 9th century...