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Into the Rising Sun
In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veteran
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
"Iwo Jima was a massacre. I never expected anything like that. People were dying left and right...No names should have been used on the flag raisings because we didn't get up there by ourselves. It was the collective actions of a lot of people and there were a lot of Raiders and paratroopers up there...
The New Face of War
How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
As American and coalition troops fight the first battles of this new century -- from Afghanistan to Yemen to the Philippines to Iraq -- they do so in ways never before seen. Until recently, information war was but one piece of a puzzle, more than a sideshow in war but far less than the sum total of...
The Foreigner's Gift
The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The fall of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime brought the first glimpse of freedom for Iraq and unleashed elation, resentment, and chaos. On the one hand, there is hope: the Iraqi people have their first chance at independence. On the other hand, there is despair: the country is exploding with violent...
LBJ
Architect of American Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
For almost forty years, the verdict on Lyndon Johnson's presidency has been reduced to a handful of harsh words: tragedy, betrayal, lost opportunity. Initially, historians focused on the Vietnam War and how that conflict derailed liberalism, tarnished the nation's reputation, wasted lives, and eventually...
Beyond Valor
World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Previous books have promised to describe the combat experience of the World War II GI, but there has never been a book like Patrick O'Donnell's Beyond Valor. Here is the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves, and perhaps the most honest and brutal account of...
Overlord
General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical A
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Over Lord is the fascinating story of how American tactical air power was developed by General Elwood "Pete" Quesada during World War II, including its decisive role in Operation OVERLORD and the liberation of Europe.
Pete Quesada is one of World War II's unsung yet crucial heroes. With his famous...
by Gerald Linderman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one...
The Fiddler on Pantico Run
An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In this gorgeously written and “vividly fascinating” (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins of his unusual last name and discovers that he comes from one of America’s earliest mixed-race families.
“My dad’s family was a mystery,”...
Storm on the Horizon
Khafji--The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history. Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Morris...
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent...
by C.A. Tripp
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
The late C. A. Tripp, a highly regarded sex researcher and colleague of Alfred Kinsey, and author of the runaway bestseller The Homosexual Matrix, devoted the last ten years of his life to an exhaustive study of Abraham Lincoln's writings and of scholarship about Lincoln, in search of hidden keys...
by D. Clayton James
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Distinguished historian D. Clayton James offers a brilliant reinterpretation of the Korean War conflict. Focusing on the critical issue of command, he shows how the Korean War is a key to understanding American decision-making in all military encounters since World War II.
Korea, the first...
Alexandria
City of the Western Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of the ancient world. Accomplished classicist and author Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His enchanting blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the...
The Bible Unearthed
Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Isreal and the Origin of Sacred Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors.
In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein...