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At All Costs
How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing...
The Last Ridge
The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939–40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet army to its knees, an amateur skier named Charles Minot “Minnie” Dole convinced the...
The War That Ended Peace
The Road to 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and Mail
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating...
The Barbary Plague
The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
“San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill. . . . The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing...
by Gay Talese
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
"An Italian ROOTS." —The Washington Post Book World
At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the...
Citizens of London
The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“Engaging and original, rich in anecdote and analysis, this is a terrific work of history.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion**
The acclaimed author of *Troublesome Young Men *reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime...
The Proud Tower
A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged...
by Glenn Thrush, Jonathan Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 series once again provides an unprecedented minute-by-minute account of the race for the presidency. The End of the Line follows President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney as their campaign teams go all-in to win in the critical...
The Soul of America
The Battle for Our Better Angels
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian...
Absolute Monarchs
A History of the Papacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich...
by Toby Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”—Los Angeles Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly
In this landmark volume, one of...
Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND *PUBLISHERS WEEKLY...
A Distant Mirror
The Calamitous 14th Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Barbara W. Tuchman—the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Guns of August—once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe.
The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on...
The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
Bestselling...