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Jack Nasty-Face: The Classic Memoir of a Sailor Who Blew-the-Whistle on the British Navy
In 1805 William Wells Robinson joined the Royal Navy. He saw action in numerous campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of Trafalgar. After six years of naval service, Robinson deserted - a hanging offence in time of war. He kept his head low for the next two decades, but in 1836 publ...Book Details
Author : Robinson, William
Publish : March 9, 2017
Publisher : Blackwattle Press
Jack Nasty-Face: The Classic Memoir of a Sailor Who Blew-the-Whistle on the British Navy
President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross and A Great American Land Grab
Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stoo...Book Details
Author : Inskeep, Steve
Publish : May 19, 2015
Publisher : Penguin Press
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
Jacqueline Kennedy; Historic Conversations on Life with John F Kennedy
In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be read in this deluxe, illustrated eBook. Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunne...Book Details
Author : Schlesinger, Arthur M, Jr
Publish : September 14, 2011
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
James Madison and the Making of America
In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen -- as "The Father of the Constitution; -- to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influenced t...Book Details
Author : Gutzman, Kevin R
Publish : February 14, 2012
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
James Madison and the Making of America
John Quincy Adams
He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad....Book Details
Author : Unger, Harlow Giles
Publish : September 4, 2012
Publisher : Da Capo Press
John Quincy Adams
Joker One
After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. In this immediate, thrilling, and inspi...Book Details
Author : Campbell, Donovan
Publish : March 10, 2009
Publisher : Random House
Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
Joyland
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever....Book Details
Author : King, Stephen
Publish : May 27, 2014
Publisher : Titan Books
Joyland
The Lost City of Z - A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for the...Book Details
Author : Carlsen, William
Publish : April 26, 2016
Publisher : William Morrow
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
Keeping Faith
President Carter provides a candid account of his time in the Oval Office, detailing the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph at the Camp David Middle East peace summit, his relationships with world leaders, and even glimpses into his private world. “Responsible, truthful, intelligent, earnest, rat...Book Details
Author : Carter, Jimmy
Publish : January 1, 1982
Publisher : Bantam Books
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
Kill Anything That Moves
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnames...Book Details
Author : Turse, Nick
Publish : January 15, 2013
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed...Book Details
Author : Grann, David
Publish : April 18, 2017
Publisher : Doubleday
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killing Lincoln
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot...Book Details
Author : O'Reilly, Bill and Dugard, Martin
Publish : September 27, 2011
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Killing Patton
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident—and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the fin...Book Details
Author : O'Reilly, Bill and Dugard, Martin
Publish : September 23, 2014
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s...Book Details
Author : O'Reilly, Bill and Dugard, Martin
Publish : May 4, 2021
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organ...Book Details
Author : O'Reilly, Bill and Dugard, Martin
Publish : October 9, 2018
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Known and Unknown
With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight de...Book Details
Publish : February 8, 2011
Publisher : Sentinel
Known and Unknown
Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
Before World War II, Normandy’s Plage d’Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took one look at the gentle, sloping sands and announced "They will come here!” He was referring to "Omaha Beach”—the...Book Details
Author : Kershaw, Alex
Publish : November 6, 2018
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide
The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president’s dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it be...Book Details
Publish : November 30, 2021
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel ...Book Details
Publish : May 11, 2010
Publisher : Scribner
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
There’s nothing that armchair adventure lovers relish more than a gripping true story of disaster and heroism, and Last Man Off delivers all that against a breathtaking backdrop of icebergs and killer whales. On June 6, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Matt Lewis had just started his dream job as a sci...Book Details
Author : Lewis, Matt
Publish : May 12, 2015
Publisher : Plume
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
Last Men Out
The monsoon winds swirling up from the South China Sea had doubled in magnitude as Marine Staff Sergeant Mike Sullivan stood on the roof of the American Embassy, watching North Vietnamese artillery pound Saigon's airport. It was late in the afternoon of April 29, 1975, and for the past eight days th...Book Details
Author : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : May 3, 2011
Publisher : Free Press
Last Men Out: The True Story of America’s Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
Last Stand Khe Sanh
In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege of Khe Sanh-the Vietnam War's epic co...Book Details
Author : Jones, Gregg
Publish : April 22, 2014
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam
Last Stand - George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down. The buffalo in t...Book Details
Author : Punke, Michael
Publish : May 29, 2007
Publisher : Smithsonian
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
Last to Die - A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II
On August 18, 1945—three days after Japan announced it would cease hostilities and surrender—U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. A month shy of his twentieth birthday, Tony Marchione died like so many before him in World War II...Book Details
Author : Harding, Stephen
Publish : July 14, 2015
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 19...Book Details
Author : Standiford, Les
Publish : January 1, 2002
Publisher : Crown
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Last Words
As one of America’s preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acerbic humor with never-bef...Book Details
Author : Carlin, George with Hendra, Tony
Publish : November 10, 2009
Publisher : Free Press
Last Words
Leap into Darkness
A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal). Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times duri...Book Details
Author : Bretholz, Leo
Publish : September 14, 1999
Publisher : Anchor
Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, ...Book Details
Author : Dolin, Eric Jay
Publish : May 7, 2024
Publisher : Liveright
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our natio...Book Details
Author : Weiner, Tim
Publish : May 20, 2008
Publisher : Anchor Books
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Legend
The unforgettable account and courageous actions of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret staff sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines In Legend, acclaimed bestselling author Eric Blehm takes as his can...Book Details
Author : Blehm, Eric
Publish : April 28, 2015
Publisher : Crown Publishers/Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House LLC
Legend: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez’s Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam
A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war’s architects "I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I have learned anything I should share it." ...Book Details
Author : Goldstein, Gordon M
Publish : November 11, 2008
Publisher : Times Books/Henry Holt & Company, LLC
Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," proclaimed Herman Melville, and the vivid story of whaling is one of the mightiest themes in American history. Indeed, much of America's culture, economy, and even its spirit were literally and figuratively rendered from the bodies of whale...Book Details
Author : Dolin, Eric Jay
Publish : July 2, 2007 by
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Libby Prison Breakout
While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that ul...Book Details
Author : Wheelan, Joseph
Publish : February 9, 2010
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison
Liberty's First Crisis
When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse: partisanship gripped the...Book Details
Author : Slack, Charles
Publish : March 3, 2015
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Lincoln on War
President Lincoln used his own weapons—his words— to fight the Civil War as brilliantly as any general who ever took the field. In Lincoln on War, historian Harold Holzer gathers and interprets Lincoln’s speeches, letters, memoranda, orders, telegrams, and casual remarks, organizing them chron...Book Details
Author : Lincoln, Abraham
Publish : April 12, 2011
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Lincoln on War
Lone Survivor
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less th...Book Details
Author : Luttrell, Marcus
Publish : June 12. 2007
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Long Shot: the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
A gripping narrative by an Iran-born Kurdish journalist who joined the ranks of the Kurdish army as a sniper in the fight against ISIS In 2002, at the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian-Kurdish man, was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight against his own people. Refusing to go to...Book Details
Author : Cudi, Azad
Publish : February 12, 2019
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Long Shot: the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS
Lost in Shangri-La
“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush and impenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame with great gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is a true story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compellin...Book Details
Author : Zuckoff, Mitchell
Publish : April 26, 2011
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts
In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction. A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA’s brightest stars, married the man she helped fr...Book Details
Author : Irons, Maya Moore and Irons, Jonathan
Publish : January 17, 2023
Publisher : Andscape Books
Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts
Lucky 666 - The Impossible Mission
From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey’s Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history,...Book Details
Author : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : October 25, 2016
Publisher : Simon Schuster
Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
Lupus - Everything You Need to Know
The Lupus Foundation of America estimates that 1.5 million people in the United States are currently grappling with lupus. Lupus is a chronic disease caused by inflammation in one or more parts of the body. It can target any of the body's tissues, and its symptoms are many. Because every lupus ex...Book Details
Author : Bernatsky, Sasha
Publish : January 8, 2005
Publisher : Firefly Books
Lupus: Everything You Need to Know
Man's Search for Meaning
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. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope wit...Book Details
Author : Frankl, Victor E
Man’s Search for Meaning
Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World
In 1271, a young Italian merchant named Marco Polo embarked on a groundbreaking expedition from Venice, through the Middle East and Central Asia to China. His extraordinary reports of his experiences introduced medieval Europe to an exotic new world of emperors and concubines, amazing cities, huge a...Book Details
Author : Man, John
Publish : November 11, 2014
Publisher : Mariner Books
Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace
Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to locate and confiscate her diary? What in that diary was so explosive? Had Mary Meyer finally put together the intricate pieces of a plan to assassinate her lover, P...Book Details
Author : Janney, Peter
Publish : April 2, 2012
Publisher : Skyhorse
Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace
Massacre on the Merrimack - Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her w...Book Details
Author : Atkinson, Jay
Publish : September 1, 2015
Publisher : Lyon Press
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston’s Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
Master of the mountain : Thomas Jefferson and his slaves
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek’s eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferso...Book Details
Author : Wiencek, Henry
Publish : October 16, 2012
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Mayflower Lives
Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the “saints” (members of the Separatist puritan congregations) and “strangers” (economic migrants) on the original ship. Collectively, these people would become known to history as “the...Book Details
Author : Whittock, Martyn
Publish : August 6, 2019
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science t...Book Details
Author : Higginbotham, Adam
Publish : February 12, 2019
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Midnight Rising
Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revea...Book Details
Author : Horwitz, Tony
Publish : October 25, 2011
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Miracle at St. Anna
Inspired by a historical incident that took place in the village of St. Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany and by the experiences of the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Division in Italy during World War II, Miracle at St. Anna is a singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, heroism, and love. It is t...Book Details
Author : McBride, James
Publish : January 7, 2003
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Miracle at St. Anna
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple and the War of 1812
August 28, 1814. Dressed in black, James Madison mourns the nation's loss. Smoke rises from the ruin of the Capitol before him; a mile away stands the blackened shell of the White House. The British have laid waste to Washington City, and as Mr. Madison gazes at the terrible vista, he ponders the fu...Book Details
Author : Howard, Hugh
Publish : January 24, 2012
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War: America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence
Mr Mercedes
In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the ...Book Details
Author : King, Stephen
Publish : June 2014
Publisher : Scribner
Mr. Mercedes
Murder & Mayhem in Nashville
Author Brian Allison illustrates the darker shades of Nashville's colorful past. Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of the city's malevolent past. A rowdy red-light district called "Smoky Row" spawned several fatal episodes. A murderous temptress with a penchant f...Book Details
Author : Allison, Brian
Publish : October 3, 2016
Publisher : The History Press
Murder & Mayhem in Nashville
Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayus...Book Details
Author : Harden, Blaine
Publish : April 27, 2021
Publisher : Viking
Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
Natural Born Heroes - How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere. After running...Book Details
Author : McDougall, Christopher
Publish : April 14, 2015
Publisher : Knopf
Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same...Book Details
Author : Hornfischer, James D
Publish : January 25, 2011
Publisher : Bantam
Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
No Better Friend - One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in war Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend an...Book Details
Author : Weintraub, Robert
Publish : May 5, 2015
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the...Book Details
Author : Plokhy, Serhii
Publish : April 13, 2021
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Once In A Great City - A Detroit Story
As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America’s path to music and prosperity that was already past history. It’s 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city’s leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II...Book Details
Author : Maraniss, David
Publish : September 15, 2015
Publisher : Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story
Operation Mincemeat
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple & complicated—Operation Mincemeat. Purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking the Allies were planning to attack Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the N...Book Details
Author : Macintyre, Ben
Publish : May 4, 2010
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

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