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Malcolm X
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 30.00Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History Hailed as "a masterpiece" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations,... more...
The Fall of the House of Labor
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 25.00The changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action. more...
The History of Mexico
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 54.95The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. The book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from the pre-colonial times to the present, and includes... more...
No One Left to Lie to
Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 10.19In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and philistine, crooked and corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions - of liberals and conservatives alike... more...
A Cold Days in Hell
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 32.00Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their captors marched them north toward prison... more...
The United States since 1980
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 18.00Describes the sharp right turn the US has taken following Ronald Reagans election in 1980. more...
Line Doggie: Foot Soldier in Vietnam
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 23.00Charles Gadd served in Vietnam in late 1967 and 1968 and had experiences very similar to what most enlisted men endured. He describes the mud, blood, leeches, loss of friends, and low morale due to constant harassment by guerrillas. The author, a squad leader with the 101st Airborne, was wounded twice and saw nearly constant action in the Central... more...
Submarine Stories
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 21.95Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The story of these boats, their technological... more...
Six Silent Men, Book Two
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 7.99In the summer of 1967, the good old days were ending for the hard-core 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, perhaps the finest maneuver element of its size in the history of the United States Army. It was a bitter pill. After working on their own in Vietnam for more than two years, the Brigade LRRPs were ordered to join forces with the... more...
Here Is Where
Crown Publishing Group 2013; US$ 25.00Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll?s eye-opening ? and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll?s visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln?s son was saved by the brother of Lincoln?s... more...









