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By David McCullough, 2006
ISBN 0743226720
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed...
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson, 2003
ISBN 9780767908184
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the...
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII
By Alison Weir, 1991
ISBN 0802136834
The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account...
- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
By Mark Bowden, 1999
ISBN 9780451203939
The behind-the-lines story of the U.S. Special Forces team dropped into the middle of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 and the intense firefight for their lives they went through. A true-to-life thriller that gives the political story of what U.S. troops were doing there in the first place and the...
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
By Edward Gibbon, 2005
ISBN 0753818817
Gripping, powerfully intelligent, and wonderfully entertaining, Gibbon's classic account of Rome ranks as one of the literary masterpieces of its age. Attacked for its enlightened views on politics, sexuality, and religion, the first volume was nonetheless found on every table and received...
- Marie Antoinette: The Journey
By Antonia Fraser, 2002
ISBN 0385489498
France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history.
- Man's Search for Meaning
By Viktor E. Frankl, 2006
ISBN 080701429X
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished.
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By Nathaniel Philbrick, 2007
ISBN 0143111973
Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as "spellbinding" by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred...
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By Nelson Mandela, 1995
ISBN 0316548189
The best-selling memoirs, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power. Reprint. NYT.
- The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By Susan Wise Bauer, 2007
ISBN 039305974X
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still...
- Hiroshima
By John Hersey, 1989
ISBN 0679721037
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.
- The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
By Alison Weir, 2009
ISBN 9780345453211
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since.
- Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
By Hampton Sides, 2002
ISBN 038549565X
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March.
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By Simon Winchester, 2005
ISBN 0060839783
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history.
- 1421: The Year China Discovered America
By Gavin Menzies, 2008
ISBN 0061564893
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic...
- The Monster of Florence
By Douglas Preston, 2009
ISBN 0446581275
In the tradition of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, Douglas Preston weaves a captivating account of crime and punishment in the lush hills of Florence, Italy. Douglas Preston fulfilled a lifelong dream when he moved with his...
- Mein Kampf
By Adolf Hitler, 2006
ISBN 817224164X
After 1944, Hitler's notorious book was not widely available until the hardback edition of this version appeared in 1969. This paperback edition is intended primarily for students of 20th century German history seeking to gain insight into its dominant figure from reading his own words.
- The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
By Iris Chang, 1998
ISBN 0140277447
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered--a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
- A Little History of the World
By E. H. Gombrich, 2008
ISBN 030014332X
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser...
- Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By Margaret Macmillan, 2003
ISBN 0375760520
National BestsellerNew York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeSilver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign RelationsFinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardFor six months in 1919, after the end of “the...
- The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
By Harry Bernstein, 2007
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“There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its ‘Invisible Wall.
- Infidel
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2008
ISBN 0743289692
In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her...
- Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
By Adam Zamoyski, 2005
ISBN 006108686X
Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the civilized world. But Britain eluded him. To conquer the island nation, he needed Russia's Tsar Alexander's help. The Tsar refused, and Napoleon vowed to teach him a lesson by intimidation and force.
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
By Rick Atkinson, 2007
ISBN 0805087249
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North AfricaThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and...
- Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
By James M. McPherson, 2003
ISBN 0609610236
“[I]n a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or detract.”—President Abraham LincolnJames M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
- From Beirut to Jerusalem
By Thomas L. Friedman, 1990
ISBN 0385413726
A winner of the National Book Award, the seminal study of the Middle East conflict by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has been updated with the addition of a new chapter that traces the situation up to 1995.
