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The White King
Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life.
Less than forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself. Split...
Tell Me How This Ends
General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war.
Linda Robinson conducted extensive...
One Hundred Victories
Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how-after a decade of intensive combat operations-special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide.
Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam. She...
Finding the Dragon Lady
The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
In November 1963, the president of South Vietnam and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and supported by the American government. President Kennedy later explained to his close friend Paul Red” Fay that the reason the United States made the fateful decision to get...
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear,...
Lisbon
War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host...
The Great Decision
Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Following the bitterly contested election between Adams and Jefferson in 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. When Adams sought to prolong his policies in defiance of the electorate by packing the courts, it became evident that the new Constitution was limited in its...
Those Who Have Borne the Battle
A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
At the heart of the story of America’s wars are our “citizen soldiers”—those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill at Charlestown to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, and beyond, without expectation of recognition or recompense. Americans like to think that the service of its...
by John Taliaferro
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would starve to death by winter's end. Mercifully, an extraordinary missionary, Tom Lopp, and seven Eskimo herders embarked on a harrowing journey to save the whalers,...
by Charles C. Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
The men in Charles Kenney's family have been drawn to firefighting since his grandfather Charles "Pops" Kenney joined the Boston Fire Department in 1932. In his working class, Irish-Catholic neighborhood, there were other jobs that offered a decent wage, but none had the sense of belonging...
Justice and the Enemy
Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Since the Nuremberg Trials of 1945, lawful nations have struggled to impose justice around the world, especially when confronted by tyrannical and genocidal regimes. But in Cambodia, the USSR, China, Bosnia, Rwanda, and beyond, justice has been served haltingly if at all in the face of colossal inhumanity....
Spies in the Congo
America's Atomic Mission in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb-and to make sure nobody saw them doing it
Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's only...
by Robert Satloff
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust-but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff sets off on a quest to find the Arab hero whose story will change the way Arabs...
American Crucifixion
The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.
At thirty-nine years old,...