Here is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic ... more »

With the utterance of a single line--Doctor Livingstone, I presume?--a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling ... more »

The Complete Messages and Papers of President Millard Fillmore. Includes his speeches, memorandums, press conferences, executive orders, and more during his years in office. Indexed for easy navigation This ebooks is included in the Ultimate Handheld US History Library CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT OVER ... more »

The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning, the old order collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible. Everyone hailed a brave new Europe. But no one knew what this new Europe would look like. Now we know. Most of Western Europe has launched into the unprecedented ... more »

American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president ... more »

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Six Days of War was a New York Times Bestseller and Washington Post Best Book Award Winner in 2002.The book has been widely recognized as the definitive telling of the Six Day War in a context which is relevant today. more »

This ebooks is included in the Ultimate Handheld US History Library CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT OVER 55,000 WORKS!  Simply the largest ebook library of American history ever published for your handheld device. For less than $0.01 per work its the most affordable.     Supreme Court ... more »

This authoritative, riveting, indispensable single-volume history of the Civil War -- from the opening engagement at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox -- looks at the role of African Americans and clandestine operations in the war, and examines the battle strategies and tactics of Lee, Grant ... more »

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa is Mungo Park's account of his first expedition to discover the River Niger and the fabled city of Timbuctoo. Travelling with only native guides, or for the latter part of his journey alone, Park endured tremendous hardships: he was repeatedly robbed, spent ... more »

The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Samuel Eliot Morison put it, "a story of adventure ... more »

On the morning of February 3, 1983, the Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, idled at the dock in their home port of Anacortes, Washington. On deck, the fourteen crewmen--fathers, sons, brothers and friends who'd known one another all their lives--prepared for the ten-day trip ... more »