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Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical.
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president...
by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
**A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.**
In the...
Conduct Under Fire
Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of
the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray,...
The Secret Rooms
A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI
After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir...
Partners in Command
George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
A unique look at the complex relationship between two of America?s foremost World War II leaders
The first book ever to explore the relationship between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower, Partners in Command eloquently tackles a subject that has eluded historians for years. As Mark Perry...
The Art of Intelligence
Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career
Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, domestic and foreign intelligence, and international terrorism. Henry A. “Hank”...
by Robert Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken...
Clementine
The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
**“Engrossing…the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines.”–The New York Times
A long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate...
The Generals
American Military Command from World War II to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
**A New York Times bestseller!
An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.**
While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has...
Lucrezia Borgia
Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance—incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the...
The Unforgiving Minute
A Soldier's Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
"One of the most thoughtful and honest accounts ever written by a young Army officer confronting all the tests of life." -Bob Woodward
In this surprise bestseller, West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, Airborne Ranger, and U. S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney recounts his unparalleled education...
by Sei Shonagon
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Classics.
Valiant Ambition
George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
**A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye.
"May be one of the greatest...
by Robin Lane Fox
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements...