History

The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

von Edward Shils

One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism-an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and...

Panzer Divisions: The Eastern Front 1941-43

von Pier Battistelli

On June 22, 1941 when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, her Panzer divisions were to play a major role in this titanic struggle. At its peak, 19 out of the 21 existing Panzer Divisions were deployed against...

Battle of the Bulge 1944 (2): Bastogne

von Steven Zaloga & Howard Gerrard

Osprey's second title examining the Battle of the Bulge, which was the largest and most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II (1939-1945). When the attack in the north by 6th Panzer Army failed,...

Unveiled Mysteries: Ancient Secrets Are Revealed

von Godfré Ray King

Unveiled Mysteries describes an encounter with St. Germain (see also The Comte de Saint Germain), here described as an Ascended Master, virtually a God, and able to manipulate the fabric of reality. Ballard...

Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military

von Tanya Biank

As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today's military-the professional and personal challenges that confront female soldiers from...

The Warrior's Silence

von John Elliott

Ord Elliott was a Marine Rifle Platoon Commander in Vietnam in 1967. Although the Vietnam War has been over for many years, a sense of something lost lingers within Ord

The Military 100

von Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael Lanning

THEY WERE CONQUERERS. LIBERATORS. HEROES. MADMEN.ALL CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE

This compelling study by Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (U.S. Army, Ret.) lists the hundred most influential...

Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War

von Eliot A Cohen

Why do competent armies fail?

• Why did the American-led coalition in Iraq fail to wage a classic counter-insurgency campaign for so long after the fall of Baghdad?

• Why was the sophisticated Israeli intelligence...

A Nuclear Family Vacation

von Nathan Hodge & Sharon Weinberger

In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Weaving together first-class travel writing and...

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

von Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment

From the streets...

The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

Edgar Allan Poe Best Fact Crime 2004

von Erik Larson

Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining...

Hitler and Mein Kampf

von Bob Carruthers & James Murphy

Written by Emmy award winning author Bob Carruthers, this is the best-selling analysis of the factors which shaped the creation of one of the most controversial works in the history of mankind. 'Hitler and Mein...

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

von Erik Larson

“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review

Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in...

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

von Anne Frank, Otto M. Frank & Mirjam Pressler

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains...

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

von Doris Kearns Goodwin

Winner of the Lincoln Prize

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to...

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Pulitzer Prize for History 2012

von Manning Marable

Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.

Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly...

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

von E.B. Sledge

“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie,...

The Diary of a Young Girl

von Ann Frank

The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a  new translation, this definitive edition contains  entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and  confrontations with her mother that were cut from  previous...

Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

von Chris Matthews

“What was he like?”

Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question.

With the verve of a novelist, Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president...

The Life of Flavius Josephus

von Flavius Josephus

The autobiographical text The Life of Josephus is a text written by Flavius Josephus around 94 to 99 BC. The commander of a Jewish insurgency who was captured by the Roman in 67 BC he won his liberty by ingratiating...