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With the Old Breed_ At Peleliu - E. B. Sledge
Review"Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in... -
Who the Hell's in It - Peter Bogdanovich
"Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life." "Now, in his new book, Who the Hell's in It, ... -
Tories_ Fighting for the King i - Thomas B. Allen
From Publishers WeeklyDrawing on letters, diaries, and other primary sources, historian Allen (George Washington, Spymaster) challenges the traditional notion that all the colonist... -
The Tenth Chamber - Glenn Cooper
SUMMARY: Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary hist... -
The Road to Disunion_ Secession - William W. Freehling
Synopsis:It is one of the great questions of American historywhy did the Southern states bolt from the Union and help precipitate the Civil War? Now, acclaimed historian Wi... -
The Publisher_ Henry Luce and H - Alan Brinkley
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founde... -
The Passion of Artemisia - Susan Vreeland
Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" lif... -
The Modigliani Scandal - Ken Follett
Product DescriptionA fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for... -
The Last Tsar - Edvard Radzinsky
Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying... -
The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
SUMMARY: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Tim...