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Hunting with Barracudas
My Life in Hollywood with the Legendary Iris Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
“In this vivid memoir, Snyder . . . probes the lifestyles of actors, agents and producers, depicting a high-octane Hollywood with a desperate dark side” (Publishers Weekly).
Hollywood’s famous child star agent Iris Burton launched the careers of the world’s current movie stars and celebrities...
Hitler's Commando
The Daring Missions of Otto Skorzeny and the Nazi Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
He was one of the smartest, toughest, most courageous soldiers to fight in World War II. A hero to all who knew him. And he was a Nazi . . .
Otto Skorzeny was Germany’s top commando in the Second World War—and one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary...
The Other Custers
Tom, Boston, Nevin, and Maggie in the Shadow of George Armstrong Custer
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died at the Little Bighorn—and so did their only sister's husband.
Most do not realize that not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died with the 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Bighorn in 1876. So too did their...
Cold War Navy SEAL
My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War.
Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary...
by Albert Kesselring
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
From one of Nazi Germany’s most skillful commanders comes one of the great military autobiographies of World War II.
Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring was one of Germany’s most capable military strategists. Originally a Bavarian army officer, he transferred to the Luftwaffe in 1935 and became...
Racing for the Bomb
The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The untold story of the career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project was the most secretive government project the United States had ever undertaken, and would prove to be one of the most consequential...
On the Border with Crook
General George Crook, the American Indian Wars, and Life on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This definitive chronicle of Gen. George Crook by his loyal aide de camp offers a firsthand account of the Arizona Territory and American Indian Wars.
After serving more than fifteen years with Gen. George Crook, John G. Bourke, his right-hand man, sat down to write of his time with the legendary...
by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously...
Almost Anywhere
Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
What do you do when your world ends?
At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her-one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog-and together they sought...
Frank & Charli
Woodstock, True Love, and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The wild stories of a 1960s counterculture icon—about art, friendship, love, and the music festival that defined a generation.
In the 1960s and ’70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together...
The True History of the Elephant Man
The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The amazing life of the medical marvel who fascinated Victorian London.
Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon,...
Lee's Last Campaign
The Story of Lee and His Men Against Grant-1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A “superbly perceptive” portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee as he desperately led the Confederate army through the final year of the Civil War (*LibraryJournal*).**
By May 1864, Gen. Robert E. Lee had been transformed from a reluctant man who chose to fight for his state over his country into...
Captain McCrea's War
The World War II Memoir of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Naval Aide and USS Iowa's First Commanding Officer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A fascinating memoir of World War II by one of FDR’s inner circle—a man who experienced the war from both the White House and the bridge of a warship.
Captain McCrea’s War chronicles Vice Adm. John L. McCrea’s experiences in WWII—working with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on difficult...
Heinrich Himmler
The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Authors Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, notable biographers of the World War II German leaders Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goring, delve into the life of one of the most sinister, clever, and successful of all the Nazi leaders: Heinrich Himmler. As the head of the feared SS, Himler supervised...