The shadowy past and present of Las Vegas--and its role in the shaping of today's America--are here revealed as never before by two of the country's leading investigative reporters. After five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris make clear how and why Las Vegas ... more »

Matthew Currier Burden founded www.blackfive.net, one of the most popular military blogs on the Internet. His blog began as an homage to a friend killed on duty in Iraq and quickly became a source of information about what was really happening in Afghanistan and Iraq. In The Blog of War Burden presents ... more »

ho was Mario Puzo's model for the Don Corleone character in The Godfather? Was it Joseph Joe Bananas Bonanno? The infamous Salvatore Maranzano? No . . . it was Puzo's mother! Senator Joseph McCarthy was responsible for the infamous Hollywood Blacklist, right? Well, actually . . . no, he had nothing to ... more »

Here are World War II's battles, raids, and acts of courage -- the momentous decisions about how and where the war was fought -- the strategies and conduct of the officers who led the drive across Europe to Berlin, and the best army in the world, pushing the Germans out of France, chasing them across ... more »

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience ... more »

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12 ... more »

My Schools and Schoolmasters is Hugh Miller's account of his extraordinary life - from the hardships of is early life in Cromarty, in North Eastern Scotland, where he originally worked as a stonemason, to his later years as a scientist, journalist, lecturer and defender of Christianity against the Evolutionists ... more »

World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people. Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power. For too long, African Americans in particular ... more »

The remarkable untold story of France's courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country's most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine. -Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d'Argent In 1940, France ... more »

Partial table of content: CHAP. I - PRIMEVAL IRELAND Early migrations--The great ice age--Northern character of the fauna and flora of Ireland--First inhabitants--Formorian, Firbolgs, Tuatha-da-Dannans--Battle of Moytura Cong--The Scoto-Celtic invasion--Annals and annalists, how far credible? CHAP. II ... more »

Abraham Lincoln inspired feelings unlike those instilled by any previous commander-in-chief in America. Lincoln's Men draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the story of how a new and untested president could become Father Abraham. It is the story of the second American revolution ... more »

E-book exclusive: The author's tribute to her grandparents, survivors of Russia's twentieth century. An unforgettable epic of passion, betrayal, and survival set against the shimmering beauty and brutal terror of 1941 war-torn Leningrad. From the author of the international bestseller Tully comes an ... more »