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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961

Nicholas Reynolds

“Important.... Reynolds, a former curator at the CIA Museum, demonstrates that Hemingway was afraid the FBI might...

Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country

Alex Cuadros

“ Brazillionaires [is] journalist Alex Cuadros’s compelling tale of Brazil’s superrich, which deftly weaves lurid...

ONE DAY CLOSER TO THE WORLD and WAKE-UP!!!!

William (Bill) Hammond

About the Author Bill Hammond was Born 8/18/49. He went to Vietnam in 1969. He was raised on a farm in Montana and...

Sir Francis Drake

John Sugden

From Publishers Weekly No armchair admiral will want to miss this lively portrait of a man who circumnavigated the...

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Marie Jalowicz Simon

A Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction Book of 2015 "The most extraordinary memoir of World War II I've ever...

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

James Longstreet

James Longstreet (1821–1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal...

Somme Success: The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916

Peter Hart

Another dimension of the Somme battles by an established British historian." WWI Historical Foundation "This is a good...

Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power

Mark Landler

An outstanding book on U.S. foreign policy over the past seven years, a work that is granular when it must be and...

Journey Interrupted: A Family Without a Country in a World at War

Hildegarde Mahoney

“A heroic story of the love and strength of one family stranded in Japan just as Hitler made one of the worst...

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

Catherine Kerrison

“Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Catherine...

ADVENTURES IN MY YOUTH: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941-45

Armin Scheiderbauer

About the Author Armin Scheiderbauer was born in 1924, the son of an evangelical pastor. After attending schools in...

Slim: El mexicano más rico del mundo (Spanish Edition)

Diego Enrique Osorno

About the Author Diego Enrique Osorno nació en Monterrey, México, en 1980. En su carrera como autor ha escrito cinco...

The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters

Karl Rove

Having run--and won--two presidential campaigns, Karl Rove knows elections. The Triumph of William McKinley is a deeply...

Diana's Babies: Kate, William and the repair of a broken family

Angela Levin

About the Author Angela Levin is a British journalist and author. She writes for several national newspapers and...

George Marshall: A Biography

Stanley P. Hirshson

By any standard, George C. Marshall looms large over the twentieth century. Debi and Irwin Unger's in-depth biography...

Alan Turing : The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

About the Author Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University.

White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

Gregg Stebben

Review “Entertaining gossip, facts, anecdotes, and revelations about the men Americans have chosen to occupy the...

Check Six!: A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific

Terrence G. Popravak

“ Check Six! is the riveting personal story of James C. Curran’s adventures flying the P-47 Thunderbolt in combat...

TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald

Timothy L. O'Brien

From Publishers Weekly Donald Trump, entrepreneur, television star and powerful brand selling suits, perfume and...

Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany

Richard Lucas

From Publishers Weekly Shortwave radio enthusiast Lucas carefully chronicles the life of Mildred Gillars, known to...

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

Nicholas Shakespeare

“Once I started it I was hooked. And when I realised that she hadn’t been a brave and beautiful spy, I was...

Mosquito Mayhem: de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

Martin W. Bowman

About the Author Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s foremost aviation historians and has written many books and...

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

David J. Garrow

“Impressive. ... [A] deeply reported work of biography.” — New York Times Book Review “Rigorous. ... Thorough....