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"Lord Russell rises above the well-known abuses of the Holocaust to highlight Nazi abuses on a broader and more savage scale." —Military Review This factual account of German war crimes of World War II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the monstrous...
The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill’s undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and...
Just in time for the NCAA Final Four, read the exhilarating true story of the championship women's basketball team that broke the mold and captivated the country. "A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose...
A revised and updated edition of the definitive guide to overturning Citizens United.  Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that the rights of things—money and corporations—matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In...
The memoirs of a Jewish-American soldier who is taken as a POW by the Germans and survives against all odds. Ivan Goldstein was a nineteen-year-old green-as-grass soldier heading into his first battle: the Battle of the Bulge, World War II's fiercest engagement...
Winner of the Cundill History PrizeShortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in NonfictionShortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingOne...
"Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad Chinese." —Peter Cozzens, The Wall Street JournalWINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE...
"An orthodox—and excellent interpretive history of the stirring years 1914–32" in the United States (New York Times)."This book gives us a rare opportunity to enjoy the matured interpretation of an American Historian who has returned to the story and seen how recent...
By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of...
"A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy (Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of...