Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**The #1 New York Times bestseller.
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017**
Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically...
Places and Names
On War, Revolution, and Returning
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
"War hath determined us..." - John Milton, Paradise Lost
Toward the beginning of Places and...
Napoleon
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
**The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon **
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among...
Eleanor and Hick
The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history
In 1932, as her...
Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical.
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president...
by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
**A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.**
In the...
Conduct Under Fire
Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of
the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray,...
The Secret Rooms
A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI
After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir...
Partners in Command
George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
A unique look at the complex relationship between two of America?s foremost World War II leaders
The first book ever to explore the relationship between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower, Partners in Command eloquently tackles a subject that has eluded historians for years. As Mark Perry...
The Art of Intelligence
Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career
Revelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, domestic and foreign intelligence, and international terrorism. Henry A. “Hank”...
by Robert Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken...
Clementine
The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
**“Engrossing…the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines.”–The New York Times
A long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate...
The Generals
American Military Command from World War II to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
**A New York Times bestseller!
An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.**
While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has...
Lucrezia Borgia
Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance—incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the...