Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
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The Making of U.S. Navy SEALs
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
"Throughout training I kept having the thought,
WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.
It seemed to help."
SEALs are the world's toughest soldiers. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude...
Dreadnought
Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century’s first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie
With the biographer’s rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery...
The Rise and Fall of an American Army
U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1963-1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“THE MEN WHO SACRIFICED FOR THEIR COUNTRY ARE RIGHTFULLY HERALDED . . . This is an honest book–one well worth reading. . . . Stanton has laid his claim to the historian’s ranks by providing his reader with well-documented, interpretive assessments.”
–Parameters
The Vietnam War remains...
MIA Rescue
LRRPs in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
"This is an inspiring story of courage and sacrifice--one hell of an exciting true war story!"
--Kenn Miller
Author of Tiger the Lurp Dog
On 17 June 1970, in Mondol Kiri Province, Cambodia, the five men of Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) Team 5-2 were about to halt for the day. Night...
Force Recon Command
3rd Force Recon Company in Vietnam, 1969-70
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
THE A SHAU VALLEYWHERE THE NVA WAS KING . . .
In order to prevent surprise attacks on U.S. forces as they were pulling out of Vietnam, someone had to be able to pinpoint the NVA's movements. That dangerous job was the assignment of then-major Alex Lee and the Marines of the 3rd Force Reconnaissance...
There's a War to Be Won
The United States Army in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
THERE'S A WAR TO BE WON is the landmark story of one of the greatest armies in history, a conscript force of amateur soldiers who had an unparalleled record of combat success. Here -- for the first time in one volume -- is the chronicle of the United States Army's dramatic mobilization and stunning...
Slaying the Tiger
A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Slaying the Tiger, one of today’s boldest young sportswriters spends a season inside the ropes alongside the rising stars who are transforming the game of golf.
For more than a decade, golf was dominated by one galvanizing figure: Eldrick “Tiger” Woods....
One Tree Hunks
The Unauthorized Biographies of Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
One, two, TREE!
Without a doubt, One Tree Hill is one of the hottest shows on the WB—and the guys giving off the heat are Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty. These rising stars have wowed fans far and wide with their undeniable talent and devastating good looks. And judging by their remarkable...
The Loyal Son
The War in Ben Franklin's House
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution—from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns.
Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America’s founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness—even his grandfatherly...
Wish You Were Here
The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
“This amusing, sad, and heartfelt look at [Adams’s] lifeis a true gift.”—New York Post
It all started when Douglas Adams demolished planet Earth in order to make way for an intergalactic expressway—and then invited everyone to thumb a ride on a comical cosmic road trip in The Hitchhiker’s...
by P. D. James
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in...
Dangerous Ambition
Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the...
Proud Highway
Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to...
A Safe Place
The True Story of a Father, a Son, a Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Dramatic, graphic and wrenching...The reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir."
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s...