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Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us into the skies of World War II aviation, flying aboard the crowded and dangerous B-24 bombers as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine and secured Allied...
An in-depth account of a bloody World War II battle in Italy and a beloved U.S. Army captain whose story moved a nation.By the time Mark Clark's Fifth Army reached the small village of San Pietro north of Naples in the first week of December, 1943, a tough but rapid...
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara...
An analysis of demagogues in American political history and an argument for restoring the constitutional safeguards to protect against them."It is hard to imagine understanding the Trump presidency and its significance without reading this book." —Bob Bauer, former...
This "extraordinary" memoir of a black man's coming of age in Nazi Germany is "an entirely engaging story of accomplishment despite adversity." —Washington Post Book WorldIn Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing...
"A fine history of a French family that enjoyed great influence—and deservedly so—in the early trans-Mississippian West" from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (Kirkus Reviews)."If not for evocative histories such as Christian's, America's French heritage might molder...
The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals—now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands. As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In...
The military expert and author of Leadership presents "the most thoughtful analysis yet of America's recent conflicts—and future challenges" (Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal). Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power...
A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possibleBy the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the...
"An illuminating portrait" of the palace―its architecture, its scandals, its politics, and its role in France's tumultuous history (The New York Times Book Review). The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France's old regime,...