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A top-secret military code helped the Allies win World War II in the Pacific. The unbroken code was not based on numbers or symbols but on birds and whales and fish. This is the story of the Navajo Code Talkers, who left high desert country to storm tropical jungles, armed only with their language...

What caused the worst witch-hunt in U.S. history? What demons sent twenty innocent people to their deaths? Was it panic? Payback? Puritanism run amok? In this probing short-form book, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson captures all the fear and fear-mongering while exploring the latest historical research into this unforgettable American tragedy.

Socrates may be dead, but the issues that led him to drink that iconic glass of hemlock are not. Was Socrates guilty as charged? Here, in this short-form book, is the surprising - and complicated - answer.

The roving Celts struggled and traded with the Greeks and Romans for centuries. With no written language or any sense of nationality, the Celts nevertheless were bearers of a distinctive, rich, and influential culture. Here, in this short-form book from the renowned archeologist Geoffrey Bibby, is their story.

Less than 100 years after they had hurled themselves out of the desert, Arabs were building in Spain a civilization that lasted almost 800 years and cast a bright ray of light into the Dark Ages of Europe. Here, in this essay by the acclaimed British historian Gerald Brenan, is the story of Moorish Spain.

Richard the Lionheart of England and Sultan Saladin of Egypt and Syria met in a bloody war for the Holy Land. But the champions of Christendom and Islam gave the medieval world a lesson in the honor of kings. Here, in this short-form book from the respected British historian Alfred Duggan, is their story.

It saved the early American colonists from starvation, it has caused men to murder each other, and it was once our most democratic food - in short, an extraordinary bivalve. Here, in this essay by historian Joseph Conlin, is the oyster's surprising history.

This treasure of a book from Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize winner and veteran feature writer and editor at the Washington Post, provides a vivid and captivating evocation of the social, cultural, and spiritual tenor of the twentieth century. Each of these ten chapters is a virtual time capsule written...

Emily Thompson, the hard-charging Naperville Police officer who barely escaped with her life in Shane Gericke's series debut Blown Away, has been promoted to detective. She's fallen in love with Martin Benedetti, the county sheriff's homicide commander. They're building their dream house in the Chicago...

Even as the horrors unfolded, it seemed difficult to connect them with the shabby figures in the prisoners' dock. And yet, these contemptible men had once been among the most powerful and corrupt on earth. In this short-form book, Francis Biddle, the American judge at the war crimes trial of the twenty-one top Nazis, records the last chapter of their evil careers.

"Upton deserves a standing ovation." - Publishers Weekly. When private investigator Amos McGuffin discovers that his ex-wife and daughter have disappeared from their San Francisco apartment, his only clue is a yellowed newspaper clipping describing the murder of his partner eighteen years earlier by...

Of whom was it said, "while her literary works can be characterized as creative genius, her will cannot?" Who left 25,000 for sixty-six of his friends to go out and "have dinner on me"? Who kept urns containing the ashes of her parents in the hall closet - and in turn willed them...

Here, in this short-form book by award-winning historian and journalist Walter Karp, is the harrowing story of the Essex, which was sunk by an eighty-ton whale and inspired the writing Moby Dick.

In the sixteenth century, at the peak of Ottoman power, young boys were forcibly collected from all over the empire to serve in the army of the Sultan. One is Ozaner, taken from his family in Albania at the age of eight, never to return from Constantinople. When his father hears of Ozaner's death in...