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A Definitive And Extraordinary Account Of Recent Broadway History—spanning From The Debut Of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Sunset Boulevard To Disney’s The Lio...

Product Description "An inspiring and informative page-turner." –Walter IsaacsonLonglisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The au...

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia ― the Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the NationCategories: Histo...

Fabulosity (n): 1: a state of everything that is fabulous 2: a quality ascribed to that which expresses glamour, style, charisma, power, and heart Kimora...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein—David Rubenstein interv...

The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker,...

The World Is Designed To Provide Readers Of Any Age And Experience With The Essential Background Needed To Answer Important Critical Questions About The Wor...

Into The Green Hell. -the Death Factory. -dark December. -the Race For The Dams. Charles Whiting. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 275-285.Categories: Histo...

This rich and beautiful book takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens as it tours the most mag...

From the moment these two legendary players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. In Celtic green ...

In a work of history that will make headlines, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of mo...

breaking Their Silence, Witnessees Expose A Cover-up In Jfk's AssassinationCategories: History United StatesState & Local

The destruction of the World Trade Towers demonstrates the horrifying consequences of a terrorist strike. But as technological advances make weapons of mass...

the Author Of The Bestselling the Greatest Generation Takes Us On A Tour Of The Turbulent 1960s, Blending His Personal Reflections With Firsthand Accounts ...

The Dramatic Story Of The Signature Environmental Disaster Of Our Time And An Inspiring Tale Of Scientific Resistance By A Relentless Physician Who Stood Up...

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandan...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolle...

'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than fro...

Arthur Bishop ; Foreword By Henry N.r. Jackman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 208) And Index.Categories: History Americas CanadaGeneral

The story of the hero behind the attempt to kill Hitler, the subject of Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, set for June 2008 release. By July of 1944, the Thi...

In This Follow-up To Love Is A Mix Tape, A Writer For Rolling Stone, After His Wife's Death, Finds Solace In Music, Which Leads Him To The Strangest Places ...

This is the wartime autobiography of one of the first officers to join the British Army's Glider Pilot Wing, a unique force that was at the forefront of the...

Norman Stone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Engineering & TransportationEngineering

Tells The Gripping True Story Of A U.s. Airman Who Was The Soul Surviver When His Bomber Crashed Into The Sea During World War Ii And Had To Face Thousands ...

a Compelling Study Of How To Cultivate True Integrity—which Requires Both Internal And External Commitment And Obedience To God. From The Heart Of This Pa...

From Finland To Newfoundland And Jelling To Jerusalem, Follow In The Wake Of The Vikings -- A Transformative Story Of A People That Begins With Paganism And...

Monumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America's first Black lieuten...

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what ...

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to u...

The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese c...

A kind of meditation on Welsh history, past and future, from Owen Glendower to the 21st century, centred on the town of Machynlleth.Categories: ReferenceLan...

An Account Of The Worst Cholera Outbreak In Victorian London--and An Exploration Of How Dr. John Snow's Solution Revolutionized The Way We Think About Disea...

Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism....

There is a war going on between the established scientific community and those who would explore new theories, realities, energy, and dynamics. J. Douglas K...

The author of Parliament of Whores takes a look at freedom around the world, discussing the Gorbachev-Reagan summit, the Berlin Wall, elections in Paraguay ...

For The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Film, W.k. Stratton's Definitive History Of The Making Of The Wild Bunch, Named One Of The Greatest Westerns Of All Time...

Japan's transformation from an isolated society to a military empire and, after a crushing defeat in World War II, into one of the world's foremost economi...

Edited And Introduced By Everett F. Bleiler. ... An Unabridges And Unaltered Republication Of The Work Originally Published By Fox, Duffield And Company In...

Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the ...

"From its creation in the early twentieth-century, policymakers used the discourse of international law to legitimate Japan's empire. Although the Japanese ...

Japan's Informal Empire In China, 1895-1937 : An Overview / Peter Duus -- The Changing Pattern Of Sino-japanese Trade, 1884-1937 / Mizoguchi Toshiyuki -- Ja...

Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and mor...

What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective ...

On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bast...

Comprehensive reference work which provides information on the military and civilian leaders, the campaigns, battles, weapons, military terms, issues, naval...

Uses accounts by Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as local civilians, from diaries, letters, books, and newspapers to recreate the Battle of Gettysbu...

The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of ...

America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past f...