Category History Enthusiasts

The Envoy

The Envoy Alex Kershaw World War II  December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the…

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The Demon of Unrest

The Demon of Unrest Erik Larson Civil War On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union,…

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Romney A Reckoning

Romney A Reckoning McKay Coppins Memoir Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump’s GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces…

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Pearl Harbor Survivors

Pearl Harbor Survivors Harry Spiller History On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was a major victory for the Japanese Navy, which in less than two hours destroyed…

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No Easy Day

No Easy Day Mark Owen Military History From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark…

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King: A Life

King: A Life Jonathan Eig Biography Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.…

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Facing the Mountain

Facing the Mountain Daniel James Brown World War II  In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields…

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Empire of Pain

Empire of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe True Crime Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early…

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