Scribner, June 2022. Paper Back. From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of..... More
Gallery Books, May 2014. Hardcover. Reminiscent of The 48 Laws of Power, legendary football coach Mike Leach's inspiring history of Apache war leader Geronimo demonstrates the timeless lessons we can learn from his life--featuring a foreword from the bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon. Says New York Times..... More
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking, explosive, and riveting book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and..... More
The Dearborn Publishing Company, January 1922. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold lettering on spine and front panel. Also some tiny gold spots/dots on spine that appear to be some sort of accidental splatter. But these might be part of design though unlikely considering..... More
Bison Books, February 2001. Paper Back. On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of..... More
Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1976. Paper Back. The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Warner Earp is based on the..... More
Fitzhenry and Whiteside, August 1999. Hardcover. 2000 Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction for Young Adults Award Shortlisted, 2000 British Columbia Round Table Information Book Award 1999 Teacher Liberian Magazine, Best of the Best issue Shortlisted, 2001 Rocky Mountain Award Too Young To Fight is a book of recollections from some of this..... More
Random House, April 2022. Hardcover. "[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."--The Wall Street Journal "A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago."--Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads In..... More
Doubleday, November 2021. Hardcover. The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II--from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. Thrilling from the first page to the last. --Mary..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2022. Hardcover. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's France combines the stylistic versatility of..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 2017. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE..... More
Free Press, November 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In dustjacket. Quarter bound. Black cloth covered spine with stamped gold lettering. Sky blue paper covered boards. Red end pages. Some pencil underlining, side notes and other marginal markins here and there through text. [350 pages]..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, July 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. The legend of Beau Gaste and the hell-raising, hard-drinking, long-suffering, loyal Legionnaires has been immortalized by countless novels and Hollywood movies. Here Douglas Porch examines the Legion myth and goes beyond it to explore the Legion's mystique and describe its performance from its..... More
Sentinel, May 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of..... More
Berkley Publishing Group, August 1995. First Thus. Paper Back. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates the life of John Wesley Hardin, from his youth to his final days. An ingenious reconstruction.--Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates..... More
Naval Inst Pr, April 1997. Paper Back. The story of the revolutionary missile boat used by Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Octavo. Some few and scattered pencil underlining and tick marks. 322 pages]. More
Barre Publishers, January 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. {8 & 1/2' x 10'} Front is black cloth covered spine. Spine is tanned with gold lettering.Front boards pictorial tan paper covered with map of 'East River or the Sound'. Rear board is entirely covered in black cloth that begins with spine and..... More
Knopf, March 2022. Hardcover. A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer--immersing us in one year of his life--from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice. The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when..... More
Scribner, June 2022. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before the arrival of..... More
University of Georgia Press, April 2021. Hardcover. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the..... More
William Collins, May 2022. Hardcover. 'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms..... More
Seal Press, June 2022. Hardcover. The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement's most radical ideas On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them..... More
University of Chicago Press, September 2015. Hardcover. Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling..... More
University of Chicago Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army--who had kidnapped her a mere nine weeks earlier. But the..... More
Cornell, 1975. Trade Paperback. Rubbing on covers; else, very good, tight. More
