Cooper Square Press: 92 books
Edmund Wilson
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second...
The Runaway Bride
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2002
In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring...
Che Guevara
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
The controversial life and career of Ernesto Ché Guevara (1928-1967) has earned the revolutionary leader admirers and detractors across the world. In his critical biography, Daniel James penetrates the myths that have grown up around Guevara since his death. The biography carefully analyzes the Cold...
by G. P. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Hannibal forged a career of daring exploits and stunning victories that came perilously close to annihilating Rome.
The GI's War
American Soldiers in Europe During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thrust upon them and in the process became veteran soldiers. Their unsparing narratives, presented in their own words, capture the many emotions evoked by war. GIs and their commanding officers...
Waterloo
Napoleon's Last Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Waterloo was the climax of almost twenty years of war in Europe. It dramatically ended Napoleon's dream of a lasting empire. Through the skillful use of original source material, noted historian Hibbert recreates the events and drama surrounding the famous battle. Hibbert discusses Napoleon and his...
Hanged at Auschwitz
An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2001
A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture, starvation, and even his own public execution through extraordinary luck. His remarkable and terrifying story...
Mengele
The Complete Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through...
African Game Trails
An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Natrualist
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2001
In 1909, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned ex-President Theodore Roosevelt to collect specimens of African wildlife for the National Museum. Roosevelt went to Africa with his son Kermit, several prominent naturalists, and many journalists, thereby initiating the safari industry and setting...
by Nguyen Cao Ky
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2002
Nguyen Cao Ky served as South Vietnam's prime minister and its vice president during the years of the Vietnam War's escalation, and of subsequent criticism of the war from the U. S. His memoir provides an insider's look at the disputes and corruption within the government of South Vietnam and the...
The Final Invasion
Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2001
A major event in both America's history and the European wars of the nineteenth century, the War of 1812's Battle of Plattsburgh saw the largest invasion ever of a foreign military into the United States, as the British army and navy, fresh from victories against Napoleon, attempted to conquer Lake...
Three Who Made a Revolution
A Biographical History of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2001
The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible—Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin—are the focus of this biographical account of the rise of socialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bertram Wolfe, a political scientist and historian of Russia, knew Trotsky and Stalin personally,...
Anzio
The Gamble that Failed
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2001
Anzio, a small town a mere hour's drive from Rome, became a battleground on which both Allies and Germans paid a bloody price. Planned by Churchill as a swift amphibious flanking maneuver, the 1943 battle of Anzio has been viewed by some as one of the most ill-conceived tactical operations of the...
by Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Thid unsurpassed work illuminates the unpopular, blunder-filled War of 1812.