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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

William C. Davis

Exhaustive research by a master practitioner sweeps aside layers of legendry to reveal three giants of the Alamo in...

Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime

Jared Savage

About the Author Jared Savage is an investigative reporter for the New Zealand Herald who has won journalism awards...

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

Jim Frederick

One of the most important and devastating accounts of life inside a totalitarian society."( Commentary 2008-05-01)...

Case Red: The Collapse of France

Robert Forczyk

About the Author Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of...

Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II

Sir Max Hastings

Operation Chastise is a remarkable book, well in keeping with the impressive track record that Hastings long ago...

Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

Catherine Merridale

Catherine Merridale has picked the locks that kept this history hidden. . . . Essential reading for anyone who wants to...

Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

Edward Ball

“Taking the reader along with him on a journey of discovery as he teases out facts, [Edward Ball] engages in...

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America

Gus Russo

From Publishers Weekly Investigative reporter Russo (Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of...

The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions: Discovering the Varus Battlefield

Tony Clunn

About the Author Tony Clunn joined the army at age 15, and at 17 joined the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. After 22 years of...

The Dark Side of Christian History

Helen Ellerbe

Over a period of nearly two millennia, the Christian Church has oppressed and brutalized millions of individuals....

Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

Paul Cartledge

“a welcome addition to any philhellenic library by a reliable, readable interpreter of the ancient past.”― Kirkus...

Brotherhood Betrayed

Michael Cannell

A book that can whisk you away to another world – even the Mob underworld – has pronounced value...What Cannell has...

A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters

Chai Ling

A compelling first-person account . . . for all of us seekers who search for true meaning and purpose while battling...

Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor

Andrew Kirtzman

A diagnostic study of Giuliani’s auto-destruct apparatus is probably beyond the capabilities of psychiatric case...

The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series--and America's Heart--During the Great Depression

John Heidenry

About the Author John Heidenry is a native of St. Louis and was the founding editor, in 1977, of St. Louis magazine and...

Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine

Dick Couch

Review “An excellent...resource for those looking for insight into modern special operations warfare and...

Old Jules: 50th Anniversary Edition

Mari Sandoz

A realistic biography, a rare find. On putting down this book One feels that one has read the history of all...

Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

Don Graham

* Full of myth and misunderstanding, there's a Texas for everyone... Graham writes about Texas recognizing the...

Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe

Gordon Corera

“[An] amazing story of the secret pigeon service and how it helped to win the war.xa0Well-researched and well-told,...

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women

Marianne Monson

Nominated for the 2017 American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Award recognizing books that ''affirm positive roles...

To School Through the Fields

Alice Taylor

From Publishers Weekly This charming memoir of childhood is a bestseller in Ireland, where Taylor tends the market and...

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

Nell Mcshane Wulfhart

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Postxa0• Longlisted for PEN America's John Kenneth Galbraith Award...

The Messianic Legacy: Secret Brotherhoods. The Explosive Alternate History of Christ

Richard Leigh

From the Inside Flap Holy Blood, Holy Grail rocked the very foundations of Christianity. Now four more years of...

Jefferson Davis, American

William J. Cooper

The title might seem odd, given that Jefferson Davis (1808-89) served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil...