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Drawing on his experience as a correspondent for The New York Times in Europe and Vietnam, David Halberstam takes a moment to reflect on the recent past, the astonishing events now taking place in the world, and the look of the next century. From the Puli

Pulitzer-prize winning author David HalberstamOs eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam_the Kennedy/Diem era_remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introductio

"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY Times
Halberstam's magisterial & thrilling The Best & the Brightest was a defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing

Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright. Slavery was a major industry in the American South, and Stowe worked with the Underground Railroad to help escaped slaves head north towards freedom.

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Clarissa "Clara" Barton was a shy girl who grew up to become a teacher, nurse, and humanitarian.  At a time when few women worked outside the home, she became the first woman to hold a government job, as a patent clerk in Washington, DC.

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Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground Railroad which she t

作者：Bill O'Reilly

书名：Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

简介：In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Mart

作者：Lauren Tarshis

书名：I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944(I Survived #18)《我从1944年诺曼底登陆战役中幸存》

简介：This installment in the New York Times bests

作者：Lauren Tarshis

书名：I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944(I Survived #9)《我从1944年纳粹入侵中幸存》

简介：In one of the darkest periods in history, one boy str

作者：Lauren Tarshis

书名：I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941(I Survived #4)《我从1941年珍珠港事件中幸存》

简介：70 years later, the bombing of Pearl Harb

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt《一流气质》

简介：This notable biography concentrates on character and p

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

简介：All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elis

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson《罪无可赦:拳王杰克·强生沉浮录》

简介：He was the first black heavyweig

作者：Robert Cowley

书名：What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

简介：What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeed

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：The Vietnam War: An Intimate History《越战》

简介：From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War,

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：The Civil War: An Illustrated History《内战》

简介："The Civil War defined us as what we are & it opened us to being what we became, go

作者：Robert Dugoni

书名：The World Played Chess

简介：In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enj

A sweeping World War II saga of thwarted love, murder, and a long-lost painting.

In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by

Yesterday was Beautiful is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.

In Yesterday was Beautiful, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of a bailed out pilot in Greece looking for

Roald Dahl was badly wounded in Libya during the war, but he went on to serve in the RAF in Greece and Syria. In these spine-tingling tales of battles in the sky - and in the psyche - he draws on his own experiences and those of his friends and colleagues

Beware of the Dog is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.

In Beware of the Dog, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of an injured pilot recovering in hospital who makes a

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienat

The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga

Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift o

Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, i