When a young woman from Ohio seeks escape from her abusive childhood and a young man from Florida runs away from his dysfunctional home, they find themselves standing on the bloodsoaked soil of Vietnam, in the middle of a war, working side by side to save lives.
In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it.
The explosive memoir from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus, I Spy takes you on a non-stop, adenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who would do our country harm.
The devastating effect of Prince Albert's death on Queen Victoria is the stuff of legend, and in this fascinating biography Robert Rhodes James reveals the extraordinary man who inspired her devotion.
James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.
Timed to coincide with the release of Walter Isaacson's latest biography on the famous painter and inventor, as well as the latest thriller in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code series, this book includes 101 in-depth facts about Leonardo Da Vinci.
This collection of WWI sketches of the Fifth Marine Regiment is "e;forthright, unsparing, deeply felt but unsentimental, and reads like a house afire"e; (The Wall Street Journal).
Volume Two of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer's famous travelogue, recounting his historic journeys through Asia and his encounters with Kublai Khan.
Volume One of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer's famous travelogue, recounting his historic journeys through Asia and his encounters with Kublai Khan.
A "e;very dramatic [and] compelling"e; World War II story of murder, mutiny, and a military cover-up, from the author of The Phoenix Program (The New York Times).
Three classic accounts of WWII from a reporter who "e;shaped America's understanding of the war, and influenced every account that came after"e; (Mark Bowden).
From slavery to liberation to life as an abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher-the autobiography of a woman who refused to be anything but free.
With a new preface: An "e;irreverent [and] entertaining"e; portrait of JFK, the Camelot mystique, and the politics of charisma (The Christian Science Monitor).
With a new preface: A "e;stunning"e; analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review).
New York Times Bestseller: A "e;remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan"e; from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times).
#1 New York Times Bestseller: A "e;superb"e; eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of World War II (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down).