He has been called Americas greatest ex-president, a man who lost the White House after one term but went on to become a respected spokesman for peace and human rights.
Former President Reagan, long remembered as the Great Communicator, never was at a loss for words, and his profound wisdom and wit are presented in this unique, impactful book covering more than fifty years from Hollywood to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and beyond.
The phonecall came from out of the blue, just when Sir Hilary Synnott was looking forward to retirement after helping steer India and Pakistan back from the verge of nuclear war.
****Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal Award for "e;Best Memoir"e;****The Highway War is the compelling Iraq War memoir of then-Capt.
The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age-the westward movement of the American people.
This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evolved from the thirteenth century through to the present day.
The Life and Adventures of George Nidever: 1802-1883 is a fascinating window into the life of a quintessential American frontiersman whose journey spanned the rugged terrains of Tennessee, Missouri, and eventually California.
Wang Chin-yun, a Buddhist nun born in Taiwan in 1937 and now known as the Venerable Master Cheng Yen, is one of the world's most inspiring yet largely unrecognized women.
Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS pioneering founders of modern special forces.
En este provocador nuevo estudio, el historiador napoleónico Alexander Mikaberidze reconsidera la campaña napoleónica de 1812 y vuelve a relatar la apasionante historia de la batalla de Borodinó, terrible y épica a partes iguales, en la que conjuga con espíritu crítico un abrumador compendio de fuentes francesas, alemanas, británicas y, por supuesto, rusas.
The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is not just the tale of the first man from a developing country to ever reach the top of the Forbes list of billionaires.
Though widely recognized as one of the Industrial Workers of the World's leading members and one of its most prominent militants, this is the first book-length biography of Frank Little.
The radicalization of Muslims and Islamic institutions in the United States, Europe, and across the Islamic world has fostered a new generation of Islamist activists, many of them willing to use violence to achieve their aims.
William E Simon-quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, treasury secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic.
Die Nachkriegsprozesse gegen Ilse Koch, die Ehefrau des Kommandanten von BuchenwaldIlse Koch war die Ehefrau des SS-Kommandanten von Buchenwald und eine der wenigen verurteilten NS-Täterinnen.
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle EastIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president-Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood-and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group.
Edward I—one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages—pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland.
In this elegant and affecting companion to her "e;extraordinary"e; memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe) In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experience-or perhaps salvation-in Europe.
George Bronson Rea, Propagandist brings to life the extraordinary story of a journalist, publisher, engineer, spy, lobbyist, blackmailer and fortune hunter, who represents twentieth century journalism gone awry.
What Americans call the Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the communists and the French for possession of the country--but Vietnam's strategic position in southeast Asia inevitably led to the involvement of other countries.
David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders.
'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on his senses' Geoff Dyer Albert Camus was born in a 'world of poverty and sunshine' in Algeria, which would infuse all of his work.
