Thomas Dunne Books imprint: 1256 books
The Two O'Clock War
The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict and the Airlift That Saved Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2002
It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. It was a war that brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict. A war in which Israel almost unleashed her...
The Other Preacher in Lynchburg
My Life Across Town from Jerry Falwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
After teaching for a number of years, John Killinger, eager to be a pastor, was offered a church in Lynchburg, Virginia. It was in the 1980s when Jerry Falwell had a congregation there. Falwell had just started the Moral Majority movement and had helped to get Ronald Reagan elected president. In 1983,...
The Bible's Cutting Room Floor
The Holy Scriptures Missing from Your Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone knew....
Merchant Kings
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world
It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental...
by Marjorie Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Filled with anecdotes and fascinating information, "a spicy read indeed." (Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed the World)
The perfect companion to Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History, Pepper illuminates the rich history of...
Girl on the Golden Coin
A Novel of Frances Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Impoverished and exiled to the French countryside after the overthrow of the English Crown, Frances Stuart survives merely by her blood-relation to the Stuart Royals. But in 1660, the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy in England returns her family to favor. Frances discards threadbare gowns and moves...
Dominion
The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
"Ackroyd, as always, is well worth the read." —Kirkus, starred review
Dominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen...
1494
How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays."
--Toronto Star
In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells...
Northmen
The Viking Saga, AD 793-1241
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings—a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom.
In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power meant...
Scarlet Women
The Scandalous Lives of Courtesans, Concubines, and Royal Mistresses
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In 1965, an impoverished elderly woman was found dead in Nice, France. Her death marked the end of an era; she was the last of the great courtesans. Known as La Belle Otero, she was a volcanic Spanish beauty whose patrons included Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and...
Affirmed
The Last Triple Crown Winner
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
In 1978, racing fans witnessed a rivalry for the ages when a horse hailing from Harbor View Farm named Affirmed and an eighteen-year-old jockey dubbed "Stevie Wonder" faced off against the celebrated Alydar and emerged victorious in each leg of the Triple Crown---by a combined margin of...
The Undefeated
The Oklahoma Sooners and the Greatest Winning Streak in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
For three perfect seasons (1954-1956), the Oklahoma Sooners won every football game they played - home or away - and over the course of five years they won 47 straight games. This awesome record was the product of a genius and masterful coach named Bud Wilkinson and the spirited young men he led....
The Story of Ireland
A History of the Irish People
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland's past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Ireland is an eye-opening account of a nation that has long been shaped by forces beyond its coasts.
The Story of Ireland re-examines Irish history,...
Monster of the Midway
Bronko Nagurski, the 1943 Chicago Bears, and the Greatest Comeback Ever
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Jim Dent's Monster of the Midway is the story of football's fiercest competitor, the legendary Bronko Nagurski. From his discovery in the middle of a Minnesota field to his 1943 comeback season at Wrigley, from the University of Minnesota to the Hall of Fame, Bronko Nagurksi's life is a story of grit,...