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The most famous collision in American Navy history took place on a hot, starless, moonless night in 1943. PT109 was idling off the South Pacific island of Kolombangara. With virtually no warning, a Japanese destroyer smashed into the boat, slicing it in half and igniting its thousands of gallons of gasoline....

Seventy-year-old Benjamin Franklin charmed Paris and pulled off a diplomatic miracle that led to the British defeat in the American Revolution. Here, in this essay from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming is the little-told story.

Even his abolitionist allies thought his attack on Harpers Ferry insane, but, as this short-form book by New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming points out, John Brown sensed that his trial and death would ignite the nation's conscience.

Defeated by Americans at Saratoga, British General John Burgoyne's troops faced nearly five years of enforced exile in a hostile countryside. Here, in this short-form book by New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, is the dramatic story of Burgoyne and his wandering soldiers.

Sally Fairfax stole George Washington's heart long before he met Martha. Here, in this essay by New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming, is their love story.

Today's spectacle of an imperial Congress battling the president of the United States is unsettling to many Americans. But it should not come as a surprise. Since the earliest days of the republic, writes New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming in this essay, Congress has sought to seize power for itself and diminish the presidency.

A millennium ago, our forebears lived in a "Dark Age." They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong. Here, in this essay from New York Times bestselling historian Morris Bishop is the story of Europe in the year 1000.

It came out of Central Asia, killing one-third of the European population. And among the survivors, a new skepticism arose about life and God and human authority. Here, in this essay by British historian Philip Ziegler, is the story of the plague that ravaged Europe.

The achievement of the Byzantines (who called themselves Romans) was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for 1,000 years, and push a little further the limits of both piety and depravity. Here, in this short-form book from respected British historian Alfred Duggan, is their story.

Bestselling author and legendary management thinker Tom Peters believes that any serious examination of business management and excellence must, especially in these perilous times, begin with an assessment of the moral basis for enterprise. His take in this provocative, highly designed new book? Organizations exist to SERVE. Leaders exist to SERVE.

Who knows what it really takes to be an effective leader in business today? The most successful CEOs do. They are the men and women who run the #1 or #2 corporation in their industry or market niche. Leadership is such a vital skill that four out of ten U.S. corporations now have some sort of formal...

Wess Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, has gathered together insightful, inspiring, and instructive advice from some of history's greatest CEOs, entrepreneurs, and thinkers - from George Washington to George Patton, Andrew Carnegie to Oprah Winfrey,...

Here is the story of Sir David Lean, one of the greatest moviemakers of all time, director of such epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and A Passage to India. Stephen M. Silverman spent the better part of a year meeting with Lean to secure firsthand information...

New York Times bestselling author Norman Bogner returns with Deception featuring Dr. Elena Gould, a heroine for our times. A highly regarded cardiologist from Manhattan, a ski accident forces Elena to give up medicine. Widowed for a year, her life at loose ends, she, through her benevolence and love...