The story of two incredible, intimidating Civil War machines: the Merrimack and Monitor. Historian Richard Snow brings to vivid life the tensions of the time, explaining how wooden and ironclad ships worked, maneuvered, battled, and sank.
Bill Fawcett offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes--from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq--that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.
Tells the stories of women pioneers who endured unimaginable hardships to settle the West. All of them overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world--inspiring examples for the modern woman.
At midday on May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard launched a sixty-seven-shot barrage that left four Kent State students dead and nine wounded. Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and memories of those who were there.
The Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow and focused the electoral power of black America. Drawing on extensive research, Ethan Michaeli constructs a narrative of race in America and brings to life the reporters who braved lynch mobs and policemen's clubs.
This book takes us back to 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. Rubenstein vividly describes Stalin's mysterious, sudden death and the unfolding of Soviet and international events in the months after.
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin radically altered the future of both Israel and the Palestinians. In a riveting narrative, Ephron tells the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, for two years leading up to the assassination, as one negotiated for peace and the other plotted murder.
Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour farm archives and other newly uncovered Chinese-language sources, including an interview with a camp guard, to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of intellectuals banished to China’s remote north.
