
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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Inskeep, Steve
Publish : May 19, 2015
Publisher : Penguin Press
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab

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 DetailsAuthor : Schlesinger, Arthur M, Jr
Publish : September 14, 2011
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

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 DetailsAuthor : Gutzman, Kevin R
Publish : February 14, 2012
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
James Madison and the Making of America

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 DetailsAuthor : Unger, Harlow Giles
Publish : September 4, 2012
Publisher : Da Capo Press
John Quincy Adams

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 DetailsAuthor : Campbell, Donovan
Publish : March 10, 2009
Publisher : Random House
Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood

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 DetailsAuthor : King, Stephen
Publish : May 27, 2014
Publisher : Titan Books
Joyland

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Carter, Jimmy
Publish : January 1, 1982
Publisher : Bantam Books
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

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 DetailsAuthor : Turse, Nick
Publish : January 15, 2013
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

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 DetailsAuthor : Grann, David
Publish : April 18, 2017
Publisher : Doubleday
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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 DetailsAuthor : O'Reilly, Bill and Dugard, Martin
Publish : September 27, 2011
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsPublish : February 8, 2011
Publisher : Sentinel
Known and Unknown

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 DetailsAuthor : Kershaw, Alex
Publish : November 6, 2018
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach

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 DetailsPublish : November 30, 2021
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide

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 DetailsPublish : 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 DetailsAuthor : Lewis, Matt
Publish : May 12, 2015
Publisher : Plume
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Jones, Gregg
Publish : April 22, 2014
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : 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 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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Carlin, George with Hendra, Tony
Publish : November 10, 2009
Publisher : Free Press
Last Words

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 DetailsAuthor : Bretholz, Leo
Publish : September 14, 1999
Publisher : Anchor
Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe

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 DetailsAuthor : Dolin, Eric Jay
Publish : May 7, 2024
Publisher : Liveright
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

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 DetailsAuthor : Weiner, Tim
Publish : May 20, 2008
Publisher : Anchor Books
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

"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 DetailsAuthor : Dolin, Eric Jay
Publish : July 2, 2007 by
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

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 DetailsAuthor : Wheelan, Joseph
Publish : February 9, 2010
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison

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 DetailsAuthor : Slack, Charles
Publish : March 3, 2015
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

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 DetailsAuthor : Lincoln, Abraham
Publish : April 12, 2011
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Lincoln on War

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Cudi, Azad
Publish : February 12, 2019
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Long Shot: the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS

“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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Irons, Maya Moore and Irons, Jonathan
Publish : January 17, 2023
Publisher : Andscape Books
Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

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 DetailsAuthor : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : October 25, 2016
Publisher : Simon Schuster
Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission

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 DetailsAuthor : Bernatsky, Sasha
Publish : January 8, 2005
Publisher : Firefly Books
Lupus: Everything You Need to Know

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 DetailsAuthor : Frankl, Victor E
Man’s Search for Meaning

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 DetailsAuthor : Man, John
Publish : November 11, 2014
Publisher : Mariner Books
Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Atkinson, Jay
Publish : September 1, 2015
Publisher : Lyon Press
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston’s Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America

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 DetailsAuthor : Wiencek, Henry
Publish : October 16, 2012
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves

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 DetailsAuthor : Whittock, Martyn
Publish : August 6, 2019
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience

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 DetailsAuthor : Higginbotham, Adam
Publish : February 12, 2019
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

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 DetailsAuthor : Horwitz, Tony
Publish : October 25, 2011
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

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 DetailsAuthor : McBride, James
Publish : January 7, 2003
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Miracle at St. Anna

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : King, Stephen
Publish : June 2014
Publisher : Scribner
Mr. Mercedes

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 DetailsAuthor : Allison, Brian
Publish : October 3, 2016
Publisher : The History Press
Murder & Mayhem in Nashville

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Hornfischer, James D
Publish : January 25, 2011
Publisher : Bantam
Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

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 DetailsAuthor : 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

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 DetailsAuthor : Plokhy, Serhii
Publish : April 13, 2021
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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 DetailsAuthor : Maraniss, David
Publish : September 15, 2015
Publisher : Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story

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 DetailsAuthor : 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