St Martin S Press: 9870 books
by Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, but left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again-this time with a unique model...
Lethal Warriors
When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
When the 506th Infantry Regiment—known since World War II as the Band of Brothers—returned to Colorado Springs after their first tour in Iraq, a series of brutal crimes swept through the city. The Band of Brothers had been deployed to the most violent places in Iraq, and some of the soldiers were...
Against Their Will
The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived...
In Afghanistan
Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for foreign empires for more than 200 years. The British, Russians, and Americans have all fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain, in conflicts variously ruthless, misguided and bloody. This violent history is the subject of David Loyn's magisterial...
The ISIS Apocalypse
The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda. Thousands of its followers have marched across Syria and Iraq, subjugating millions, enslaving women, beheading captives, and daring anyone to stop them. Thousands more have spread...
by Gerald M. Carbone
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Before he became "the Father of our Country," George Washington was the Father of the American Army. He took an army that had no experience, no tradition, and no training, and fought a protracted war against the best, most disciplined force in the world—the British Army. Deftly handling...
Final Solution
The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
David Cesarani’s Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe’s Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet archives, declassification of Western intelligence service records, as well as diaries and reports...
by Robert V. Remini
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The newest addition to Palgrave's Great Generals series focuses on Andrew Jackson's career including his time as a general in Tennessee and his rise up the Army ranks. Jackson's effective use of spies in war time and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties...
God's Bestseller
William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible--A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The English Bible--the most familiar book in our language--is the product of a man who was exiled, vilified, betrayed, then strangled, then burnt.
William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed as...
How the French Saved America
Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America.
To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph....
Versailles
A Biography of a Palace
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The behind-the-scenes story of the world's most famous palace, painting a picture of the way its residents truly lived and examining the palace's legacy, from French history through today
The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France's old regime,...
Napoleon and the Rebel
A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but who also had a promising political career of his own. He was a romantic, an idealist, and an anti-monarchist whose love for Alexandrine, the woman he married in spite of Napoleon's...
The Slaves' Gamble
Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and the political vicissitudes of the young nation offered diverse possibilities to slaves. In...
Miracle at Sing Sing
How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
In 1919, Lewis E. Lawes moved his wife and young daughters into the warden's mansion at Sing Sing prison. They shared a yard with 1,096 of the toughest inmates in the world-murderers, rapists, and thieves who Lawes alone believed capable of redemption. Adamantly opposed to the death penalty, Lawes...