The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York by: Elon Green (Author) Publisher: Celadon Books Publication Date: 2025-03-11 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1250898226 ISBN-13: 9781250898227 Book Description The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green, the Edgar Award-winning author of Last Call.At twenty-five years old, Michael Ste...
The Korean War: An International History (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) by: Wada Haruki (Author) Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication Date: 2018-03-29 Language: English Print Length: 422 pages ISBN-10: 0810896303 ISBN-13: 9780810896307 Book Description This classic history of the Korean War—from its origins through the armistice—is now available in a paperback edition including a substantive introduction that considers the heightened danger of a new Northeast Asian war as Trum...
Death in the Highlands: The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me by: J. Keith Saliba (Author) Publisher: Stackpole Books Publication Date: 2020-09-15 Language: English Print Length: 280 pages ISBN-10: 0811738817 ISBN-13: 9780811738811 Book Description Winner, 2021 Gold Medal in history, Military Writers Society of America — In fall 1965, North Vietnam’s high command smelled blood in the water. The South Vietnamese republic was on the verge of collapse, and Hanoi resolved to crush it ...
A History of Ghana (Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism) by: W.E.F. Ward (Author) Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2023-05-03 Language: English Print Length: 448 pages ISBN-10: 1032421797 ISBN-13: 9781032421797 Book Description A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana. The African histories are particularly important, as many village traditions, and more...
A History of Britain’s Transport by: Jeremy Black (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport Publication Date: 2025-03-06 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 1036109569 ISBN-13: 9781036109561 Book Description Covers the evolution of transport history, from walking and packhorses to modern rail, motoring, and air travel.An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experiences. Transport history is social and industrial national hi...
Peiper’s Last Gamble: Hitler’s Panzer Spearhead in the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 by: Danny S Parker (Author) Publisher: Frontline Books Publication Date: 2025-02-05 Language: English Print Length: 544 pages ISBN-10: 1036118975 ISBN-13: 9781036118976 Book Description SS-Obersturmbannführer Jochen Peiper’s leadership in the failed Ardennes Offensive, highlighting victories, defeats, and war crimes.By the autumn of 1944, Hitler’s plans for the conquest of Europe were in disarray. The...
Exposed: The Secret History of Britain’s Nuclear Experiments by: Susie Boniface (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Publication Date: 2025-03-06 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 1036121003 ISBN-13: 9781036121006 Book Description Uncovers the untold story of Britain’s atomic bomb program, revealing the devastating human cost and decades-long cover-up.Once upon a time, it was necessary to have a weapon that could unleash hell. Britain hand-picked its healthiest and c...
A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt by: Tess Chakkalakal (Author) Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: 2025-02-04 Language: English Print Length: 384 pages ISBN-10: 1250287634 ISBN-13: 9781250287632 Book Description A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE“Chakkalakal asks the reader to see the ‘First Negro Novelist’ as he saw himself: a writer and student of American letters at a time when the literary marketplace struggled to take him seriously&#...
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by: Aaron Robertson (Author) Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 2025-09-30 Language: English Print Length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 125039757X ISBN-13: 9781250397577 Book Description One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2024One of the Washington Post’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryA New York Public Library Top Ten Book of 2024 | A Boston Gl...
The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India by: Mou Banerjee (Author) Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication Date: 2025-01-14 Language: English Print Length: 368 pages ISBN-10: 0674268032 ISBN-13: 9780674268036 Book Description An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion “panic” that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics...
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