Biography: historical, political and military

Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France - detailing their disappointments and triumphs during social and political turbulence.

The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions.

"e;Lost in action,"e; a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured, was applied to the author for years following his capture by Japanese in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan.

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E.

Drawing on a wealth of eyewitness accounts, contemporary reports, and declassified intelligence documents, some never published before, The Mafia at War reconstructs the relationships between the Mafia and Allied intelligence organizations.

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi the most important woman in Chinese history brought a medieval empire into the modern age.

The religious landscape of the United States has changed dramatically in recent decades.

Circle of Treason details the authors personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s.

An introduction to studying and editing texts in all forms, from manuscript to digital.

Think You Know Everything about the death of Hitler?

The veteran soldier, Pentagon advisor and White House staffer recounts his long and distinguished military career in this acclaimed memoir.

On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt.

Fast’s book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast’s public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin.

A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russias highly profitable sea otter business.

In his Essais, Montaigne stresses that his theoretical interest in philosophy goes hand in hand with its practicality.

For thirty years Kolber was chairman of Cemp Investments, the Bronfman trust, and Cadillac Fairview Corporation, one of the largest real estate firms in North America.

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids.

A full and revealing biography of one of the century's greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.

The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W.

In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, perhaps the most famous princess in history.

Tomi Komoly, born in 1936 in Budapest, was the only child of a loving Jewish family.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East.

A highly personal, anecdotal family memoir of the Wellington legacy.

What am I supposed to do when he starts spewing his bullshit?

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The year is 1314.

Phil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking: Why do the crimes continue to happen?

King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel.

'A devastating new account.

Braiding strands of earthen insight with uproarious storytelling, Texas Hill Country legendary author Becky Patterson recreates the history of the Steiler Hill Ranch in twenty-four anecdotal chapters interspersed with original artwork.

Third Day guitarist Mark Lee is no stranger to heartache and hopes deferred; the road to success is never traveled without missteps along the way.

Samuel Clemens lived 75 years, 50 under the pseudonym Mark Twain.

In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods.

The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening.

The first woman ever elected to the U.

The remarkable career of one of Americas greatest detectivesa story of murder, mayhem, and intriguePhilip Marlowe, Dirty Harry, and even Law & Ordernone of these would exist asthey do today were it not for the legendary career of nineteenth-century New York City cop Thomas Byrnes.

Ruth Maier was born into a middle-class Jewish family in interwar Vienna.

An Academy Awardnominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L.

When grace Hooper retired as a rear admiral from the U.

William Stevenson may be best known for his friendship with and books about another William Stephenson, otherwise known as Intrepid, whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of history.

At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room.

Seventy years ago, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, his wife from a prominent Midwestern media family, and their four children moved to a small town in Southwestern Colorado.