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by David Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
“Awjeezma!” was the universal dissent, whined—repeatedly if necessary—at an unreasonable mother who wanted the vacuuming done now-not-next-year or a pile of encrusted dishes washed or the sputtering heater refueled.
“Awjeezma! Do I gotta?”
“If I have to tell you one more time—”
“Awjeezma!...
Everything Belongs to Us
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie.
Seoul, 1978. At South Korea’s top university, the nation’s...
A Covert Life
Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment...
Red Orchestra
The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitle r
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals,...
The Wrong War
Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out of Afghanistan. Drawing on his expertise as both a combat-hardened Marine and a former assistant secretary of defense, West has written a...
The Strongest Tribe
War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around-–and the choice now facing America.
In the course of 14 extended trips over five years, West embedded with more than 60front-line units, discussing...
The President and the Assassin
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of...
Middletown, America
One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually...
Valley of Death
The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would...
Witness to the Revolution
Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to...
Firestorm
Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
On February 13 and 14, 1945, three successive waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained down thousands of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the largely undefended German city of Dresden. Night and day, Dresden was engulfed in a vast sea of flame, a firestorm that generated 1,500-degree...
Under the Black Flag
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian
“[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's Journal
This rollicking...
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which today’s bitterly divided country arose. The Vietnam War was raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy had just been assassinated. In August, the Republican...