Skyhorse Publishing imprint: 540 books
Endangered Phrases
Intriguing Idioms Dangerously Close to Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
As the world changes, so does language . . . An A-to-Z guide to expressions from yesteryear that are becoming increasingly scarce.
“Person to person” (and “station to station”), “bar sinister,” “the weed of crime bears bitter fruit,” “between the devil and the deep blue sea,”...
The Knights of Bushido
A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
From the author of The Scourge of the Swastika: “A grim record of massacre and murder, of torture, slave labor, and starvation” (The New York Times).
The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies’ official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool’s sensational bestselling...
The Penny Dreadfuls
Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Three nineteenth-century literary giants—Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, and Oscar Wilde—in one outstanding volume of Victorian gothic horror.
In the 1800s, penny dreadfuls were cheap English stories that featured lurid, disturbing, and tantalizing content. These horror serials cost a penny...
by Dr. Leonard R. N. Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
From a renowned expert on folklore comes an encyclopedic “who’s who” of the occult realm.
From demons to fallen angels, folk monsters to possession and exorcism, Satanic pacts to black masses, humans have tried to define and combat evil throughout the centuries.
This book is your...
1,001 Pearls of Life-Changing Wisdom
Insight on Identity, Truth, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A wide-ranging compilation of quotes from some of the world’s greatest thinkers to influence and inspire you.
In this extensive collection of words to enlighten your mind and uplift your spirit, you will find something applicable to any problem, situation, or conundrum, as well as the inspiration...
Death in the Sahara
The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
The desert explorer and author of Khartoum recounts the disastrous nineteenth century French expedition to establish a Trans-Saharan Railway.
In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would transport the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu to Paris—and spread French...
Escape from Saigon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A novel in “the tradition of Michener and Clavell . . . A sweeping saga that places you dead center in the tumultuous final days of the war in Vietnam” (Casey Sherman, New York Times–bestselling author of The Finest Hours).
Saigon is falling. With the North Vietnamese Army approaching,...
Flowers in the Blood
The Story of Opium
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
“An irreverent, exuberant, and sometimes eminently sensible” history of opium throughout the world with an introduction by William Burroughs (Kirkus Reviews).
Opium has a long and varied history that spans the globe. In Flowers in the Blood, Jeff Goldberg and Dean Latimer chronicle the...
Secret Germany
Stauffenberg and the True Story of Operation Valkyrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
An authoritative account of the daring plot to kill Hitler that nearly rewrote the end of the Second World War and changed the course of history.
By July of 1944, the Third Reich’s days were numbered. Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a general staff insider with open eyes (and access to the Führer),...
Mandela
His Life and Legacy for South Africa and the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An in-depth look into the life of South Africa’s greatest son: anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and world activist Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela is known worldwide as a great moral and political leader, the first democratically elected South African president, the recipient of...
Sh*t Politicians Say
The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
From professional wrestler turned Minnesota governor and New York Times–bestselling author, an uproarious collection of stupid quotes from US leaders.
From the moment a Founding Father first asked for a vote, politicians have been saying dumb stuff. From George Washington to George Bush (both...
The President Is Dead!
The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A “well-researched yet fun-to-read book” about body snatchers, attempted ressurections and more true stories of US Presidents and their peculiar deaths (U.S. 1).
Did you ever hear about a prominent physician who wanted to resurrect George Washington by transfusing his body with lamb’s...
Policing Ferguson, Policing America
What Really Happened—and What the Country Can Learn from It
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The shooting of Michael Brown sparked a national debate on race relations and law enforcement. Here is the insider’s account you never saw in the media.
Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri...
Human Solutions
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A South American–set novel based on the true story of an ex-Nazi cult leader: “If The Boys from Brazil was written by Paul Auster . . . A one-sitting read” (Robert Hough, author of The Final Confession of Mabel Stark).
In Santiago, Chile, Javier Gonzalez runs an unusual sort of business....