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Area 51
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 9.99Area 51 It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the... more...
Scram!
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00In April 1982 Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot, fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War. These pilots, nicknamed 'junglies', flew most of the land-based missions in the Falklands in their Sea King and Wessex helicopters. Much of what happened in the war - the... more...
Give Your Heart to the Hawks
Tom Doherty Associates 2005; US$ 15.99For over thirty years, from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s, the mountain men explored the Great American West. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. In Give Your Heart to the Hawks , Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these... more...
War of Numbers
Steerforth Press 2012; US$ 18.95Sam Adams loved intelligence work, and that enthusiasm shines throughout this memoir of his years with the Central Intelligence Agency. His career was dominated by an epic struggle over Vietnam -- over military attempts to hide the true size of the enemy forces there, and over the integrity of the intelligence process. Adams's insistence on telling... more...
The Economic History of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 36.00Examines the economic history of the Caribbean, and is the first analysis to span the whole region. more...
The Age of Edison
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 14.99The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison?s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention,... more...
Stalking the Vietcong
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 7.99In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong?s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam. Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau Nghia province.... more...
Seven Years in Tibet
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableA landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer?s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. more...
Milliken's Bend
LSU Press 2013; US$ 29.95At Milliken?s Bend, Louisiana, a Union force composed predominantly of former slaves met their Confederate adversaries in one of the bloodiest small engagements of the war. This important fight received some attention in the North and South but soon drifted into obscurity. In Milliken?s Bend, Linda Barnickel uncovers the story of this long-forgotten... more...
Through the Perilous Fight
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem. In the summer of 1814, the United States of America teetered on the brink of disaster.... more...









