World War II was the quintessential “good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free
of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war ...
As most Americans of the 1860s fixed their attention on the battlefields of Shiloh and
Manassas, another war raged on the largely unsettled Western frontier. This splendid work by the author of The Patriot Chiefs restores this "other" Civil War ...
The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller from one of our most
eminent military historians, John Keegan.The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity ...
National BestsellerOne of the Best Books of the Year:New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles
Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and Time An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism ...
In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre
Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached ...
Acclaimed biographer Annette Kobak turns her attention to her own family as she sets out
to uncover her father's never-discussed past. A mysterious and conspicuously silent figure in Annette's life for some forty-five years, Joe Kobak at last shared with ...
A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who
joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.After Poland ...
An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the
journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private ...