| Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World by Caroline AlexanderJournalist and New York Times bestselling author Caroline Alexander (The Bounty) surveys the lesser-known aerial exploits of the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II in this fast-paced and dramatic account featuring diary entries and previously unseen records. Further reading: Burma '44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East by James Holland. |
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| Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam HigginbothamJournalist Adam Higginbotham's evocative follow-up to his Carnegie Medal-winning Midnight in Chernobyl is a compelling and well-researched chronicle of how NASA's negligence and hubris led to the 1986 Challenger explosion. Try this next: Bringing Columbia Home: The Final Mission of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward. |
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| Hip-Hop Is History by QuestloveGrammy Award-winning Roots drummer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Questlove's lively history explores the first 50 years of hip-hop music by spotlighting one song from each year since the genre's 1973 origins. Try this next: Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History by Chuck D; The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams. |
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| The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George StephanopoulosPolitical commentator and former presidential advisor George Stephanopoulos offers a peek behind the curtain at America's most famous residence in this compelling history of the Situation Room, the White House communications hub where consequential decisions are made. Try this next: The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments by Corey Mead. |
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| American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 by Alan TaylorTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor (American Republics) explores the overlapping yet intertwined conflicts of the American Civil War, the Second Franco-Mexican War, and the establishment of the Canadian Confederation in this "compulsively readable history of perhaps the most dramatic period in the history of North America" (Kirkus Reviews). Try this next: 1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport. |
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Morning After the Revolution : Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
by Nellie Bowles
Investigating the progressive movement for herself, a former New York Times reporter gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad, exposing the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.
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The War on Warriors : Behind the Betrayal of the Men who Keep Us Free
by Pete Hegseth
Combining his own military experiences, tales of outrage and an incisive look at how the chain of command got so kinked, this book, revealing a society that has forgotten the men who face the dangers the Left pretends don't exist, sets out to save our warriors and win future wars.
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Roctogenarians : Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs
by Mo Rocca
Celebrating the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life, this entertaining and unexpected collection stars an amazing cast of characters—some long gone and some very much still living, including John Goodenough, who scored a Nobel Prize at 97 for inventing the lithium-ion battery. Illustrations.
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Stories are Weapons : Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
by Annalee Newitz
A best-selling author and journalist traces the way disinformation, propaganda and violent threats are used as psychological warfare throughout history, showing how specific groups of Americans are singled out and treated as enemies of the state and speaking with the activists working to achieve psychological disarmament and cultural peace.
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| Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of Obsessive Quest for El Dorado... by Keith ThomsonBestselling author Keith Thomson's (Born to Be Hanged) richly detailed latest chronicles English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh's failed attempts to locate the mythical city of El Dorado in the jungles of South America. For fans of: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. |
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When the Sea Came Alive : An Oral History of D-Day
by Garrett M. Graff
The New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate turns his attention to D-Day, one of history's greatest and most unbelievable miliary and human triumphs, exploring the full impact of this world-changing event and offering a fitting tribute to the people of the Greatest Generation. Illustrations.
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| Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig WhitlockWashington Post reporter Craig Whitlock's (The Afghanistan Papers) lively cat-and-mouse tale profiles Malaysian defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, who conned the United States Navy out of millions of dollars from the 1990s until his 2013 arrest. Try this next: Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo. |
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal
Award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal's sweeping and scholarly history offers a corrective to Eurocentric narratives about Indigenous Americans by spotlighting one thousand years of Native autonomy, governance, and resistance. For fans of: National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk.
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Crazy as Hell : The Best Little Guide to Black History
by Hoke Smith Glover
This insightful, hilarious and heartbreaking look at Africana American history focuses on rebels and heroes such as Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone and Muhammad Ali who defied the expectations of being Black in America. Original.
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Normal Women : 900 Years of Making History
by Philippa Gregory
Drawing on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite history, focusing on the agency, persistence and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition, the #1 New York Times best-selling historical novelist redefines "normal" female behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making and sainthood.
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The End of Everything : How Wars Descend into Annihilation
by Victor Davis Hanson
A military historian narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World, depicting war's drama, violence and folly and delivering a sobering call to heed the lessons of obliteration to avoid catastrophe once again.
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