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The world of international finance - from Hong Kong to London, Tokyo to Zurich - explodes with nerve-wracking suspense in this extraordinary novel of money and passion, greed and power. At its center: handsome, ambitious Holden Chambers, a "lion" of Hong Kong international banking, and Barbara...

"One of the finest military novels in many years." - Kirkus. In The Fire Dream, Franklin Allen Leib's epic story from the Vietnam War, Lt. William Stuart, a compassionate platoon leader from the 7th ANGLICO (Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company) survived his unit's last battle but continued...

In the 1300s, a third of the population of Europe died of plague carried by rat-borne fleas, shocking the medieval world to its foundations. "Very rarely," award-winning author Charles L. Mee Jr. writes in this short-form book, "does a single event change history by itself. Yet an event...

A terror to the outside world, Viking longships were a source of great, understandable pride to Norsemen. At a time when the majority of men and women in the West lived and died within walking distance of their birthplaces and travel was slow and dangerous, Vikings seemed to skitter over the globe...

The Vikings thought of themselves as the ultimate warriors. But this one-dimensional image belies considerable complexity. They were, in fact, as much merchants as marauders. Among the commodities they sold was one that brought them the greatest profit of all - more than amber, silver, or pelts. That...

What in the world could be so extraordinary about pepper that men willingly died for it? If you enlarge your historical horizon a bit, and look back just a few centuries, there is nothing at all bizarre about the obstinacy of those pepper seekers. They were dealing with one of the great motive forces...

Roquefort is a unique product. Anyone can make a cheese with holes in it and call it Swiss. Anyone can mix mold with curdling milk and produce a cheese that he or she can call "blue." But Roquefort is not to be confused with ordinary blue cheese. For one, it is made with ewe's milk, not cow's, and hence...

Here, in this essay by Bruce Catton, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is the story of Antietam, the first, major Civil-War battle fought on Northern soil and the bloodiest single-day clash in American history.

Surprised and almost overwhelmed at Shiloh, General Ulysses S. Grant stubbornly refused to admit defeat. His cool conduct, writes Pulitzer-Prize winner Bruce Catton in this essay, saved his army and his job.

Here, from Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, is the dramatic story of the most important battle of the American Civil War: Gettysburg. For three days, from the first shots by Union soldiers to Confederate George Pickett's doomed charge up Cemetery Ridge, Catton brings vividly to life the clash that...

The Union stood in danger of losing an entire army at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Then Ulysses S. Grant arrived and directed the most dramatic battle of the American Civil War. Here, in this short-form book by Pulitzer-Prize winner Bruce Catton, is the dramatic story of the miracle on Missionary Ridge.

Fortress, ambulance, amphibious home on wheels, the covered wagon stands as the symbol of winning the West. Here, in this essay by award-winning author Ralph K. Andrist, is its seldom-told story.

The last glacier that covered most of North America reshaped the land, turned rivers in their courses, and influenced human and natural history. Here, in this essay by award-winning author Ralph K. Andrist, is its story.

Counterfeiting was big business in the 1860s. So was snatching bodies. Here, in the short-form book, is the story of the men who plotted to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body as a way to bribe the government to free the country’s finest engravers of counterfeit money.