India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

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Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story—the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories—of the world's largest and least likely democracy. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. But ... More >>

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Behind Palace Doors: My Service As the Queen Mother's Equerry

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The Queen Mother did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This is a brief glimpse into that wonderful world by a man who spent two years constantly at her side from 1994 to 1996 and then as a close friend until her death in 2002. In this sharp, funny, and evocative memoir, Major Colin Burgess draws on his years as her right-hand man to recount numerous stories of an extraordinarily long and eventful life. From dancing with Fred Astaire to living through th... More >>

Behind Palace Doors: My Service As the Queen Mother's Equerry

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

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The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition. It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews a... More >>

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

The Last American Man

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In The Last American Man, acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Elizabeth Gilbert offers a fresh cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness.

Gilbert explores what pushed men to settle the frontier West in the nineteenth century and delves into the history of American utopian communities. But her primary focus is on the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his com... More >>

The Last American Man

Mellon: An American Life

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A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.

Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America’s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretar... More >>

Mellon: An American Life

Hattie Plain

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When Hattie Plain visits a New York daily newspaper to interview for Advice Columnist, she faces three problems: she's 92 years old, has no newspaper experience, and they don't know she's coming.Amazon.com Review
LOVED, Loved, loved it!! My favorite excerpt hands down. The character of Hattie is awesome and will be a huge hit with readers of all ages. It kind of reminded me of THE HELP, and we all know how mega successful that book was. I cannot wait to re... More >>

Hattie Plain

Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

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In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and took them thousands of miles, all the way from Argentina to Venezuela. En route, there was disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy, fights, parties and a lot of serious drinking. They met an extraordinary range of people: native indians and copper miners, lepers, police, wanderers and tourists. They became stow... More >>

Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

Patton: A Genius for War

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Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This massive work is biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the ... More >>

Patton: A Genius for War

Been There, Done That: An Autobiography

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When Eddie Fisher was four years old, he opened his mouth and a beautiful sound came out. That sound changed his life forever. Eddie sang at local fairs, talent contests, and bar mitzvahs, until at age 14, he got a job singing on Philadelphia radio shows for $25 a week. A few years later, a stint at the Copacabana launched him into Dreamland. Suddenly, the Jewish kid from Philly and his golden sound were sending millions of fans screaming to their feet. More than ... More >>

Been There, Done That: An Autobiography

The Story of Cole Younger, Survivor of the Jesse James Gang

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Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, his Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published By Cole Younger

Thomas Coleman Younger (January 15, 1844 – March 21, 1916) was a famous Confederate guerrilla and an outlaw after the American Civil War. With his brothers Jim, John and Bob Younger, he joined with Jesse and Frank James to lead the James-Younger gang of Missouri bandits.
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The Story of Cole Younger, Survivor of the Jesse James Gang

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

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The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution.

Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies struggled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was a successful playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. And the flamb... More >>

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's dreams crashed and burned with her. Alice Echols pushes past the legary Joplin-the red-hot mama of her own invention-as well as the familiar portrait of the screwed... More >>

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

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In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751–1831) went on to become America’s first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America’s national and international durability.Decorated by George Washington for his ... More >>

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924

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A "documentary comic book" from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America.... More >>

The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924

Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

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Jackson traces his life from his humble beginnings, through his military career, to his untimely death in 1863, discussing his military campaigns and strategies, religious beliefs, personal eccentricities, and more.Amazon.com Review
A distinguished Civil War historian unravels the complex character of the Confederacy's greatest general. Drawing on previously untapped manuscript sources, the author refutes such long-standing myths as Stonewall Jack... More >>

Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

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Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway—a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the... More >>

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War

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Clandestine missions. Clever, devious, daring. Passionately committed to a cause. During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female spies of the Civil War participated in the world's second-oldest profession-spying-a profession perilous in the extreme. The tales of female spies are filled with suspense, bravery, treachery, and trickery. They took... More >>

Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War

Warriors of God

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The story of the Third Crusade, and the two men who dictated its outcome: Saladin, hero of the Islamic world and Richard the Lionheart. Richard and the King of France led a European army of several hundred thousand warriors, but Saladin's manoeuvres resulted in the crusaders retreat and the demise of the Third Crusade,Amazon.com Review
Throughout the medieval era, the Holy Land was a fiercely contested battlefield, fought over by huge Muslim and Christian... More >>

Warriors of God

STORY OF THE OUTLAW, A STUDY OF THE WESTERN DESPERADO

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Published, 1907.
WITH HISTORICAL NARRATIVES OF FAMOUS OUTLAWS;
THE STORIES OF NOTED BORDER WARS;
VIGILANTE MOVEMENTS AND ARMED
CONFLICTS ON THE FRONTIER
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STORY OF THE OUTLAW, A STUDY OF THE WESTERN DESPERADO

Hana's Suitcase

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In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo. It belonged to a orphan girl called Hana Brady. Everyone was desperate to discover the story of Hana - Who was she? What had happened to her? This is her true story.... More >>

Hana's Suitcase

Queen Isabella

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Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabella’s political machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning her a ... More >>

Queen Isabella

Ike: An American Hero

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Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents—a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace. ... More >>

Ike: An American Hero

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

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The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageou... More >>

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

Jane Austen: A Life

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   At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her.  Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. 
   While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother ... More >>

Jane Austen: A Life

The Meaning of Everything CD: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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From the bestselling author of
The Professor and the Madman,
The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries – The Oxford English Dictionary. Here the listener is p... More >>

The Meaning of Everything CD: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

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Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline—ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain’s Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation’s postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism cou... More >>

There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

Maid of Heaven: The Story of Saint Joan of Arc

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NEW BOOK ABOUT JOAN OF ARC POETICALLY TELLS HER LEGENDARY STORY IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE WITH HER AS SHE MAKES HISTORY! Everyone has heard of Joan of Arc but how many people really know the complete story about this famous person? Perhaps it is the complexity of all that happened to her and the long, hard to read biographies that keep most people from knowing the full story. Ben D. Kennedy solves this problem by delivering an easy to read yet com... More >>

Maid of Heaven: The Story of Saint Joan of Arc

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

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General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, ... More >>

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles of a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality. Essential reading for students of American history.... More >>

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin

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In Nazi Germany, twenty-year– old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daringly adventurous life, replete with fine restaurants and beautiful women, all the while managing to elude the Nazis until he could escape in the most unlikely of ways—by bicycling to Switzerland. “A catal... More >>

The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin

A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid

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A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death squads under apartheid. Gobodo-Madikizela met with de Kock in Pretoria's maximum-security prison, where he is serving a 212-year sentence for crimes against humanity. In profoundly arresting scenes, Gobodo-Madikizela con... More >>

A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid

Boone: A Biography

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The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him.

This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years—a hero as important ... More >>

Boone: A Biography

The Girl with the White Flag

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New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter."

Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some of the fiercest fighting of the war rages around her, she must live alone, with nothing to fall back on but her own wits and dar... More >>

The Girl with the White Flag

Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend

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"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a more deeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, author Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn

"The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and most meticulously researched." --Jack Burrows, author John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was

"The most thoughtful, well-researched, and comprehensive account that has been written about the development and career o... More >>

Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend

Murder of a Medici Princess

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In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany.
Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an ext... More >>

Murder of a Medici Princess

Hiroshima Notes

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Nobel prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe persistently confronts the hellish dimensions of contemporary life with keen and balanced grasp of personal concerns and social realities. This is his moving statement on the meaning of the Hiroshima bombing. Its universal message, developed by Oe over a number of essays, concerns the moral and ethical implications of nuclear war.... More >>

Hiroshima Notes

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

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A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times

In the three and a half years of Pol Pot's rule, more than a million Cambodians, a fifth of the country's population, were executed or died from hunger. An idealistic and reclusive figure, Pol Pot sought to instill in his people values of moral purity and self-abnegation through a revolution of radical egalitarianism. In the proces... More >>

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

The Revelation Explained

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Religion and politics; Religious fundamentalism; Religious right/ United States; Religion and politics; Religious fundamentalism; Religious right; Christian conservatism; National socialism; Religious right - United States; Christian conservatism - United States; Hitler, ... More >>

The Revelation Explained

The Gallic War

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(Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet.... More >>

The Gallic War

Gone Native: An NCO's Story

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On his first combat assignment, Cornett accompanied the Vietnamese Rangers on a search-and-destroy mission near Khe Sang. There he gained entree into a culture that he would ultimately respect greatly and admire deeply. Cornett's most challenging military duty began when he joined the Phoenix Program. As part of AK squad, he dressed in enemy uniform and roamed the deadly Central Highlands, capturing high-ranking VC officers in hot firefights and ambushes. It was the... More >>

Gone Native: An NCO's Story

The Discovery of Witches

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"Matthew Hopkins (ca. 1620 - 1647) was an English witchhunter whose career flourished in the time of the English Civil War. He held, or claimed to hold, the office of "Witch-finder General", though this was not a title ever bestowed by Parliament, and conducted witch-hunts in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and other eastern counties of England."-Wikipedia... More >>

The Discovery of Witches

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Slavery; Afro-Americans; Black race; Biography... More >>

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

The War Above the Trees

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The war as seen through the eyes of a helicopter crew member. What it was like to be on the work horse of the Vietnam War.... More >>

The War Above the Trees

Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor

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In this richly illustrated coming-of-age-story, FDR’s eldest grandson recreates the strange and magical world of the Roosevelt White House. Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister arrived at the White House. The country’s “First Grandchildren,” they were known to the media, and to the American people, as “Sistie-and-Buzzie.” Roosevelt masterfully depicts “the goldfish bowl,” as his family called it—that glare of public scrutiny to which a... More >>

Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor

Son of the Revolution

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An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.... More >>

Son of the Revolution

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

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A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.... More >>

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

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As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, “in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer.” In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C.

Tracing the extraordinary t... More >>

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Victoria's Daughters

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Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...

Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would face the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by ninetheenth-cen... More >>

Victoria's Daughters

Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

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This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile health, after his father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys, Hans went to school; like other German boys, he swif... More >>

Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

Army Life in a Black Regiment

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"One of the great source documents in human history, but one of our greatest Americans. . . . Thrilling reading." —Tillie Olsen In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail th... More >>

Army Life in a Black Regiment