St Martin S Press imprint: 3366 books
by Lucy Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era
A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a...
Pershing: A Biography
Lessons in Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing's legacy as the nation's first modern combat commander, setting the standard for today's four-star officers. When the U.S. entered into WWI in 1917, they did so with inadequate forces. In just over a year, Pershing built and hurled...
By Honor Bound
Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary Courage
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In April of 1972, SEAL Lieutenant Tom Norris risked his life in an unprecedented ground rescue of two American airmen who were shot down behind enemy lines in North Vietnam, a feat for which he would be awarded the Medal of Honor--an award that represents the pinnacle of heroism and courage.
Just...
Lightning Strike
The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This is the story of the fighter mission that changed World War II. It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor---Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto---and the courageous young American fliers who flew the million-to-one suicide mission that shot him down.
Yamamoto was a cigar-smoking, poker-playing,...
Josephine
A Life of the Empress
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2000
Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, born a Creole on the island of Martinique in the French West Indies, became one of the best known and most envied women who ever lived. Sent to France to make an advantageous marriage to a young aristocrat, her naivete and lack of education left her ill prepared to...
Left of Boom
How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The explosive New York Times bestseller!
On September 11, 2001, Doug Laux was a freshman in college, on the path to becoming a doctor. But with the fall of the Twin Towers came a turning point in his life. After graduating he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, determined to get himself...
Way of the Reaper
My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
From the New York Times Bestselling Author and Co-Star of Fox's American Grit comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's most significant kills - none of which have been told before....
The Twelve Caesars
The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars
One of the them was a military genius, one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned, another earned the nickname...
Five Lieutenants
The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
James Carl Nelson tells the dramatic true story of five brilliant young soldiers from Harvard, a thrilling tale of combat and heroism
Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle...
Heretic Queen
Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
**Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion—**the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century
Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant...
Wild Bill
The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City**.**
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation...
by Charles Messenger, Klaus Naumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Modeled on the acclaimed Great Generals series, which features the strategy and legacy of famous American generals, World Generals broadens the scope to include the world's finest military leaders. Each volume will include a foreword by Wesley K. Clark, and be co-edited by a different foreign general...
Shanghai Grand
Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. ??
Emily Hahn was a legendary New Yorker writer who would cover China for nearly fifty...
The Family Next Door
The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Turpins: a seemingly normal family whose dark secrets would shock and captivate the world.
On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home...