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The Ghosts of Cannae
Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O’Connell, one of the most admired names in military history,...
The Boleyn Deceit
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, and Showtime’s The Tudors, The Boleyn Deceit is the captivating new novel set in the imagined Tudor court of King Henry IX, son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who must navigate a terrain rife with palace intrigue, impending war, and unbridled passions.
The...
All the Rivers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A controversial, award-winning story about the passionate but untenable affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, from one of Israel’s most acclaimed novelists
When Liat meets Hilmi on a blustery autumn afternoon in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him....
by Edmund Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only...
America's War for the Greater Middle East
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades from retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich
From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers...
One Million Steps
A Marine Platoon at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion.
Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon fought...
Let's Take the Long Way Home
A Memoir of Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A near-perfect memoir: beautiful, humble, intimate and filled with piercing insights. Meant to be savored and shared.”—Time
They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story)became best friends, talking about everything...
No Greater Glory
The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism—and faith.
As water gushed through a hole made by a German torpedo, four...
Stalin and His Hangmen
The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs....
Savage Shorthand
The Life and Death of Isaac Babel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa gangsters, he perfectly captured the raw, edgy mood of the first years of the Russian Revolution. Masked, reckless, impassioned, charismatic,...
Seafaring Women
Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard...
by David Cordingly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they?
In this illuminating...
by Azar Nafisi
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
"Absorbing . . . a testament to the ways in which narrative truth-telling—from the greatest works of literature to the most intimate family stories—sustains and strengthens us.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
In this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her...
Between War and Peace
Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from America to...