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On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, more than eighty unarmed United States soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to an SS unit near the small crossroads town of Malmédy, Belgium. Although more than thirty men lived to tell of the massacre, exactly what took place that d...Book Details
Publish : November 22, 2011
Publisher : Da Capo Press
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Fatal Crossroads: The Untold Story of the Malmédy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge
Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators.
When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan—but he was ready: In a letter to his children, not m...Book Details
Publish : May 22, 2012
Publisher : The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
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Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising...Book Details
Publish : June 2, 2015
Publisher : Scribner
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Finders Keepers
The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a laby...Book Details
Publish : August 8, 2006
Publisher : Hachette Books
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed de...Book Details
Publish : July 7, 2009
Publisher : Nal Caliber
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Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men—among them a dentist, a Hollywood movie star, an archaeologist, California surfers, and even former enemies of the Allies—united to form an exceptional unit that would forge the capabilities of the Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) ...Book Details
Publish : October 28, 2014
Publisher : Da Capo Press
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First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit
In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 un...Book Details
Publish : April 22, 2013
Publisher : Liveright
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For Adam’s Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England
Once again Peter Warren has combined a mystery from the American Civil War with several modern-day murders. These murders occur as Warren's chief protagonist, Paul Waring, attempts to solve this lingering mystery from the deadliest conflict ever fought in the United States. As Paul and his friends s...Book Details
Publish : September 14, 2021
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Forgotten Treasure
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the co...Book Details
Publish : November 7, 2023
Publisher : Doubleday
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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the injustice faced by the vi...Book Details
Publish : October 15, 2024
Publisher : Doubleday
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution." —Gordon S. Wood
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Wa...Book Details
Publish : February 11, 2020
Publisher : William Morrow
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his pa...Book Details
Publish : May 8, 2012
Publisher : Random House Publishing Group
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Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched a daring rescue operation. But af...Book Details
Publish : Aprill 23, 2013
Publisher : Harper
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger..." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922." the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, ...Book Details
Publish : November 2010
Publisher : Scribner
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Full Dark, No Stars
Beginning his epic history in the early 1600s, Eric Jay Dolin traces the dramatic rise and fall of the American fur industry, from the first Dutch encounters with the Indians to the rise of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century. Dolin shows how the fur trade, driven by the demands...Book Details
Publish : July 12, 2010
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
An engaging and well-written biography that provides an in-depth look at one of history's greatest scientists....Book Details
Publish : January 20, 2000
Publisher : Beard Books
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Galileo: A Life
The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall—America’s most distinguished soldier–statesman since George Washington—whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century.
Winston Churchill called him World War I...Book Details
Publish : July 9, 2019
Publisher : Dutton Caliber
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with this book to give the secret six the credit they did not get in life. The Culper spies represent all the patriotic Americans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature of their work...Book Details
Publish : November 5, 2013
Publisher : Sentinel
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George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American c...Book Details
Publish : January 27, 2015
Publisher : Spiegel & Grau
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-artist was penetrating the digital secrets of Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Nokia...Book Details
Publish : August 15, 2011
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will transplace you into the operating room to witnes...Book Details
Publish : March 27, 2011
Publisher : Zondervan
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England s King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and wat...Book Details
Publish : July 1, 2014
Publisher : NAL
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America’s Revolution at Sea
Glorious War, the thrilling and definitive biography of George Armstrong Custer's Civil War years, is nothing short of a heart-pounding cavalry charge through the battlefield heroics that thrust the gallant young officer into the national spotlight in the midst of the country's darkest hours. From W...Book Details
Publish : December 10, 2013
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
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Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer
Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America’s most beloved and controversial political figures. Now with new material, Going Rogue offers plain talk from a true American original about her life, her career, and the future of the country she loves....Book Details
Publish : November 17, 2009
Publisher : Harper
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Going Rogue: An American Life
Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI's top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two decades, giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and betraying US assets. With zero t...Book Details
Publish : March 26, 2019
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
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Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Flags of Our Fathers , Halsey’s Typhoon chronicles the epic tale of men clashing against the ruthless forces of war and nature. In December 1944, America’s most popular and colorful naval hero, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, unwittingly sailed his un...Book Details
Publish : 2007
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
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Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, Hammerhead Six applied the principles of unconventional warfare to "win hearts and minds" and fight against the terror...Book Details
Publish : January 19, 2016
Publisher : Hachette Books
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Hammerhead Six: How Green Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan’s Deadly Pech Valley
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a f...Book Details
Publish : October 1, 2003
Publisher : Green Integer
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Heart of Darkness
In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of...Book Details
Publish : November 13, 2018
Publisher : Doubleday
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Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in an...Book Details
Publish : April 2, 2024
Publisher : Mariner Books
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Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program—and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now.
Before John Glenn orb...Book Details
Publish : September 6, 2016
Publisher : William Morrow
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
The Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and plotted political upsets. During the Civil War, a company of "Key West Avengers" escaped their Unio...Book Details
Publish : December 2018
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
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Hidden History of the Florida Keys
The first narrative history of the nuclear attack told from both the Japanese and American viewpoints.
Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hu...Book Details
Publish : August 5, 2014
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Adapted from Decoded, Meltzer's hit show on the HISTORY network, History Decoded explores fascinating, unexplained questions. Is Fort Knox empty? Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman 'Spear of Destiny'? What's the government hiding in Area 51? Where did the Confederacy's $19 million in go...Book Details
Publish : October 22, 2013
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
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History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,700 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and Remember New London! would become a rallying cry for troops under General L...Book Details
Publish : January 6, 2015
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
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Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London
On October 24, 1944, more than 200 American soldiers were surrounded by German infantry deep in the Vosges Mountains of eastern France. When their food, ammunition, and medical supplies ran out, the area’s Army headquarters turned to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated unit of Japanese...Book Details
Publish : October 11, 2016
Publisher : Da Capo Press
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Honor Before Glory: The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion
From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory.
Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/1...Book Details
Publish : May 5, 2009
Publisher : Scribner
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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action and raw intensity of leading his Third Platoon, Alpha Company, into a lethally choreographed kill zone: the booby-trapped, explosive-laden houses of Fallujah's militant insurgents. Bringing to searing l...Book Details
Publish : September 4, 2007
Publisher : Free Press
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House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual ...Book Details
Publish : February 19, 2019
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam?s intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who...Book Details
Publish : June 6, 2017
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
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Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military’s counterterrorism arsenal. Their story has been pieced together by technology reporters, major newspapers, and on-the-ground accounts from the Middle East, but i...Book Details
Publish : October 13, 2015
Publisher : Dutton
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Hunter Killer: Inside America’s Unmanned Air War
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.
"You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in th...Book Details
Publish : February 27, 2018
Publisher : Harper
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
A groundbreaking narrative of the relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon—from the politics that divided them to the marriage that united their families.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had a political and private relationship that lasted nearly twenty years, a tie that ...Book Details
Publish : February 5, 2013
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
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Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering...Book Details
Publish : September 25, 2012
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
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Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World
All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author John Burke is no exception. In Imagine Heaven, he compares more than one hundred gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven: Will I be myself? Will I see ...Book Details
Publish : November 2015
Publisher : Baker Books
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Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You
On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action. His father, Sam, a New York Times correspondent, was already on his way to Gettysburg when he learned of his son's wounding but had to wait until the g...Book Details
Publish : April 15, 2021
Publisher : Stackpole Books
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Imperfect Union: A Father’s Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspens...Book Details
Publish : February 1, 1994
Publisher : Turtleback Books
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
A harrowing, adrenaline-charged account of America's worst naval disaster—and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived.
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated three hundred men were killed upon impact; clo...Book Details
Publish : January 1, 2001
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
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In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
In this eagerly anticipated memoir, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers an unyielding portrait of American politics over nearly forty years and shares personal reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.
The public perceptio...Book Details
Publish : August 30, 2011
Publisher : Threshold Editions
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In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entra...Book Details
Publish : May 10, 2011
Publisher : Crown
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath...Book Details
Publish : December 2001
Publisher : San Val
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Based on first-hand reporting from Syria and Washington, journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with both rebel leaders and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erlich gives the reader a better understa...Book Details
Publish : October 7, 2014
Publisher : Prometheus Books
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Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
The story of Elizabeth Winthrop (daughter-in-law of John Winthrop) takes us through four marriages, seven children and surviving multiple battles to protect her land, her religion, and her life. Author Missy Wolfe's ability to bring to life the turmoil of the earliest days of Connecticut, telling th...Book Details
Publish : October 2, 2012
Publisher : Globe Pequot
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Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665
Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to.
On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four the rookie pilot, a prominent po...Book Details
Publish : May 21, 2013
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
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Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story
A pilot reports a strange haze enveloping his plane, then disappears; eleven hours after fuel starvation, as if calling from a void, he is heard 600 miles away. He requests permission to land, then vanishes forever. A freighter steaming over placid seas disappears without a trace. A pleasure yacht g...Book Details
Publish : February 28, 2005
Publisher : International Marine Publishing
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Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World’s Greatest Mystery
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.” — President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony.
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firin...Book Details
Publish : September 25, 2012
Publisher : Random House, Inc.
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Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review), the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power.
No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than...Book Details
Publish : November 1, 2016
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Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found i...Book Details
Publish : August 24, 1999
Publisher : Crown
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best—and at its worst.
It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave’s schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 2...Book Details
Publish : 2007
Publisher : Algonquin Books
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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
Watch author RV Burgin discuss "Islands of the Damned" and "The Pacific." See R.V. Burgin in the award winning documentary film Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific. Click here for more information. This is an eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the wa...Book Details
Publish : March 2, 2010
Publisher : Nal Caliber
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Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
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