Skyhorse Publishing: 874 books

This definitive chronicle of Gen. George Crook by his loyal aide de camp offers a firsthand account of the Arizona Territory and American Indian Wars. After serving more than fifteen years with Gen. George Crook, John G. Bourke, his right-hand man, sat down to write of his time with the legendary...

The wild stories of a 1960s counterculture icon—about art, friendship, love, and the music festival that defined a generation.   In the 1960s and ’70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together...

The amazing life of the medical marvel who fascinated Victorian London. Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon,...

A “superbly perceptive” portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee as he desperately led the Confederate army through the final year of the Civil War (*LibraryJournal*).** By May 1864, Gen. Robert E. Lee had been transformed from a reluctant man who chose to fight for his state over his country into...

A fascinating memoir of World War II by one of FDR’s inner circle—a man who experienced the war from both the White House and the bridge of a warship. Captain McCrea’s War chronicles Vice Adm. John L. McCrea’s experiences in WWII—working with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on difficult...

A fascinating look at how writers through the ages have approached death—in both the literary and literal senses. “Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.” –William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Dying has always been...

An “amusing and thought-provoking” portrait of one of contemporary art’s most challenging figures (The Independent). Francis Bacon was one of the most powerful and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. Immediately recognizable and unforgettable, his paintings continue...

The poet’s daughter tells of growing up with him in 1940s Wales, and “portrays a chaotic childhood with unsentimental grace” (TheNew York Times**).** When Aeronwy was six, her parents, Dylan and Caitlin Thomas, moved to a boathouse at the edge of the small Welsh village of Laugharne....

An in-depth look at Pulitzer Prize–winning White House reporter Merriman Smith and his biggest story: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Thanks to one reporter’s skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963, when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m....

The explosive true story of how a deranged Lyndon Johnson conspired to murder the President of the United States. LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning...

New York Times bestseller: A definitive, no-holds-barred account of all the evidence pointing to a secret government plot to murder President Kennedy. It’s been more than fifty years since John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and it’s time we all fully understood the facts, theories, and myths...

The “absorbing . . . charming and persuasive” story of Nobel Peace Prize–winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s best-known prisoner of conscience (Publishers Weekly). As one senior UN official put it, Burma is a country where “just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death.”...

From a Beverly Hills etiquette guru comes this “must-read” behind the scenes look into her clients’ unique social dilemmas, debacles, and transformations (Dr. Phil). In Beverly Hills, fame and wealth can buy everything—except class, grace, and sophistication. In 24 Karat Etiquette,...

“Malcolm Bell’s powerful story of the Attica prison uprising . . . has the ring of truth” (Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of “The Good War”).   The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica...