Open Road Media imprint: 6782 books
Invasion Diary
A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Allied Invasion of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A dramatic and richly detailed chronicle of the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy from one of America’s greatest war correspondents.
Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, Allied military strategists turned their attention to southern Italy. Winston Churchill famously described...
by Ronald J. Glasser, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
National Book Award Finalist: The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an army doctor—“a book of great emotional impact” (The New York Times).
In 1968, as a serviceman in the Vietnam War, Dr. Ronald Glasser was sent to Japan to work at the US Army hospital at Camp Zama. It was the...
The Grandees
America's Sephardic Elite
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The New World’s earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota.
In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of...
by Burke Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy’s back in the last months of the Civil War.
In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to “make Georgia howl.”...
Nelson
The Essential Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A gripping biography of Admiral Nelson, Napoleonic War hero and one of Britain’s greatest naval tacticians.
In the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson sent the signal from his flagship HMS Victory, “England expects that every man will do his duty.” His defeat of the French...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s “lively and absorbing” biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review).
This conclusion to Bruce Catton’s acclaimed history of General Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant’s...
by Mary Renault
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
An “intriguing and invaluable” biography of Alexander the Great by the novelist whose fiction redefined Ancient Greece (The New York Times).
Acclaimed writer Mary Renault is widely known for her provocative historical novels of Alexander the Great and his lovers. But she also authored this...
12, 20 & 5
A Doctor's Year in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor’s year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.
Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting,...
Chiang Kai-Shek
An Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
An in-depth biography of the towering 20th-century Chinese military and political figure who led the government, first on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan, from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China when he was head of state
In 1911, 24-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was...
by Manfred Weidhorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Robert E. Lee's life has been regarded as one of great honor and esteem and he has been a man admired for his loyalty, patriotism, and conduct as not only an American, but also a Virginian. And when he made the decision to turn down Lincoln's offer to command a large army of Union Soldiers in the...
Dee Brown on the Civil War
Grierson's Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three true tales of Civil War combat, as recounted by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
The acclaimed historian of the American West turns his attention to the country’s bloody civil conflict, chronicling the exploits of extraordinary soldiers who...
SAS Ghost Patrol
The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed as Nazi Stormtroopers
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
An “amazing” account of Britain’s most audacious act of subterfuge in WWII: an undercover raid of Rommel’s stronghold in Tobruk (The Daily Mirror).
On a scorching September day in 1942, the Special Air Service (SAS), a special forces unit of the British Army, pulled off one of the most...
The King Maker
The Man Who Saved George VI
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“A treasure trove that throws new and entertaining light” on the friendship between the WWII-era king and the man who inspired The King’s Speech (The Times, London).
Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician,...
Defy All the Devils
America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (The New York Times Book Review).
On July 1, 1874, four-year-old Charley Ross and his older brother, Walter, were playing in front of their stately Philadelphia...