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The Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against 8,000 disciplined invading British regulars in a battle that delivered the British a humiliating military defeat. The victory solidified America's...
by Margery Kempe
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen...
Jesus
A Biography from a Believer.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
From the bestselling author and acclaimed historian, a powerful portrayal of the life of Jesus
Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such an influence on history as Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings have inspired discussion, arguments, even war, and yet few have ever held forth...
by Tacitus
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country,...
by Sarah Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BORGIAS, NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING JEREMY IRONS
'Either Caesar or nothing' was the motto of Cesare Borgia, whose name has long been synonymous with evil. Almost five centuries have passed since his death, yet his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. He stands...
by Anthony Birley
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2005
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This...
Martha Washington
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated...
George F. Kennan
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War...
A Summer of Hummingbirds
Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
**The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. **
At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher...
Shooting Ghosts
A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
**"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score
A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls
"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS...
King of Spies
The Dark Reign of an American Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy
In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing jeeps on the sleepy island...
by Christopher Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the...
Fighter Boys
The Battle of Britain, 1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and...
Blood Aces
The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The astonishing story of Benny Binion—a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas
Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker.
Blood Aces tells the story of...