Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
Hero Found
The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds...
The Only Thing Worth Dying For
How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Eric Blehm, author of the award-winning The Last Season, is back with another true adventure story, The Only Thing Worth Dying For. Set in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, The Only Thing Worth Dying For chronicles the untold story of the team of Green Berets led by Captain Jason Amerine that conquered...
97 Orchard
An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family...
Becoming Charlemagne
Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl. With one gesture, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Becoming Charlemagne tells the story of the international...
Country Driving
A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
“Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures that give life to the moment.” —The New York Times Book Review
From Peter Hessler, the New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town, comes Country Driving, the third and final book in his award-winning...
Abigail and John
Portrait of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
“Fascinating...Gelles has provided a balanced portrait, and her mastery of the period’s issues and history is evident on every page. Her treatment of the family... [is] written with understanding and sensitivity... But it is her strength as a feminist historian that makes her treatment of Abigail...
American Uprising
The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous slave rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history
In January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from the plantations around...
by James L Stokesbury
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagined proportions as the same ground -- places like Ypres and the Somme -- was fought over again and again. Other major bloody battles remain vivid in memory...
The Notes
Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Ronald Reagan left behind a legacy that America willnever forget. Now, in this one-of-a-kind collection of his most intimatethoughts, his favorite quotations by others, and his own most collectiblejokes, all culled from a newly disclosed set of personal notecards he keptthroughout his life and career,...
With Wings Like Eagles
A History of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“[With Wings Like Eagles is] bold and refreshing… Korda writes with great elegance and flair.”—Wall Street Journal
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ike and Horse People, Michael Korda, comes With Wings Like Eagles, the harrowing story of The Battle of Britain, one of the...
Water
The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup...
Napoleon's Privates
2,500 Years of History Unzipped
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
When Tony Perrottet heard that Napoleon's "baguette" had been stolen by his disgruntled doctor a few days after the Emperor's death, he rushed out to New Jersey. Why? Because that's where an eccentric American collector who had purchased Napoleon's member at a Parisian auction now kept the...
Our Kind of People
Inside America's Black Upper Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book...
Nazi Germany and the Jews
Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises...