Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
The Last Lion: Volume 2
Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The second volume of William Manchester's masterful account of Winston Churchill's life.
Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal war to come. During this period,...
The Imperial Cruise
A Secret History of Empire and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators...
The Love Object
Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (Harold Bloom)
As John Banville writes in his introduction to THE LOVE OBJECT, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories...
Pandora's Keepers
Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
There Were Nine of Them: men with the names Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, and Compton-brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else did the awesome workings of an invisible world. They came from many places, some fleeing Nazism in Europe,...
The Medici Giraffe
And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
A fascinating exploration, spanning two thousand years, ofthe central role exotic animals have played in war, diplomacy, and thepomp of rulers and luminaries.
The War Lovers
Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
On February 15th, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm.
A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across...
Operation Nemesis
The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper...
Tiger Force
A True Story of Men and War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate...
by Mary Simses
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
"You will devour The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop &Cafe. Mary Simses can write evocative detail that puts you right in the scene, with dialogue that always rings true."
-James Patterson
A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her...
A Lucky Child
A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal...
Unmentionable
The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era?
Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't...
The Blood of Heroes
The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The defenders fought valiantly-for...
Iron Horses
America's Race to Bring the Railroads West
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A vivid account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad -- available for the first time in trade paperback -- by the author of the bestselling The Admirals: "Borneman is masterly at writing seamless narrative." -- Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior
After the...
Top Secret America
The Rise of the New American Security State
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that...