Cooper Square Press imprint: 92 books

Justinian

The Last Roman Emporer

by G. P. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002

Justinian (482-565 A.D.), who ruled the Roman Empire from his capital in Constantinople, was, along with his wife Empress Theodora, one of the most scandalous monarchs in history. During his reign, Justinian oversaw the construction of the Hagia Sophia, one of the wonders of the ancient world, and...

The Desert and the Sown

The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia

by Gertrude Bell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001

A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I. The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, illustrated...

The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

The U.S. Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea

by Raymond B. Lech
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2000

On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the U. S. Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters...

The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945

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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000

These extraordinary memoirs—written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the six weeks before he was hung in Nuremberg for war crimes—offers readers an unparalleled insider's view of the blitzkrieg against Poland, the conquest of France, and the brutal campaign against the Soviet...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2003

One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales. Includes a new translation of the complete text of Pleasures...

Defeat Into Victory

Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

by Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2000

Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2000

This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature—writers best known for novels, plays, and poems—and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe,...

O'Neill

Son and Artist

by Louis Scheaffer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2002

The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his...

Mussolini

A Biography

by Jasper Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two decades. He was also an extremely able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen—including Winston Churchill and influential persons in the United States. This biography describes Mussolini's...
by David Dr. Livingstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002

During his travels as a missionary, David Livingstone beheld many previously unknown wonders of the African interior. He put Victoria Falls and Lake Ngami on the map, and was the first white man to cross the African continent. Diaries, reports and letters are combined to create a wonderful narration...

The Fairy Tale of My Life

An Autobiography

by Hans Christain Anderson, a renowned Andersen scholar, lives in London
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2000

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote, including "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Snow Queen." Andersen's sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity are strikingly evident in his autobiography....

Sulla the Fortunate

Roman General and Dictator

by G. P. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2001

Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC), soldier, politician, and statesman, set the standard of dictator for the generations that followed his death—the most famous dictator to follow Sulla's systematic path to power was Julius Caesar. In his lifetime, Sulla faced issues such as the decay of religious...
by Robert Payne, Nikita Romanoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002

Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants in history, but few people among the general public know how he got such an infamous reputation. Relying on extensive research based heavily on original Russian sources, this definitive biography...

Beyond Cape Horn

Travels in the Antarctic

by Charles Neider
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2002

Writer and Antarctic explorer Neider tells of his third trip to the frozen continent, describing the international stations there and the goals they are working toward. Neider also tours the Antarctic landscape, observing the geography and wildlife and evoking it in detail. Devoting scrutiny to the...
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