Robert: 26808 books
I Loved Her in the Movies
Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner’s memoir of the great women movie stars he has known.
In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming...
The Operator
Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This instant New York Times bestseller—“a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account” (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard...
Helmet for My Pillow
From Parris Island to the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom Hanks
See Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
Here is one of the most riveting first-person...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the...
Challenge for the Pacific
Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.
From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully...
Cutthroats
The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Soon after we landed it became apparent that there was more than enough artillery here, that the enemy were excellent shots, and that their ammo supply seemed to be endless.
With the Japanese deeply entrenched and determined to die rather than surrender, Robert Dick and his fellow soldiers...
The Perfect Kill
21 Laws for Assassins
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
An odyssey through the art, theory, and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, New York Times–bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, assassin
All four of Robert B. Baer’s previous books were New York Times bestsellers*,* and it’s no wonder. A recipient of the...
The Antarctic Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole. In this carefully selected Anthology we...
by Robert A. Caro
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in book form, Robert Caro gives...
Hemingway's Paris
A Writer's City in Words and Images
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
An “achingly effective” portrait of the city that inspired one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors (Booklist, starred review).
No other place in any of Ernest Hemingway’s travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris. The gorgeous black-and-white photographs...
Avid Reader
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time
After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf...
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The story of the love that ended an empire
In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the...
See No Evil
The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War Against Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
In See No Evil, one of the CIA’s top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington...
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not...