NONFICTION
Released: June 17, 2013
"A well-written, fast-moving treatment of an issue still relevant today."
Glass (
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under the Nazi Occupation, 2011, etc.) takes on the nearly taboo subject of Allied soldiers who deserted or were said to have displayed cowardice during World War II.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"A clever history of how the Tudors ushered England into the medieval age, illustrating the broad influence they exerted both then and now."
Lipscomb (Early Modern History/Univ. of East Anglia;
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, 2009) combines her credentials as historian/TV presenter/author to give us a thorough history/guided tour of the Tudors.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"A thoroughly enjoyable book from a historian's historian who can write for the masses."
The story of William the Conqueror's invasion of England is hardly new, but the situations that prompted it on both sides of the English Channel have never been told in so much depth.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 14, 2013
"Duplessis' string of lovers was sufficiently fascinating to become the basis of books, plays and Verdi's opera. As a chronicle of French life, Kavanagh's book is great fun; as biography, it's scattered."
Intelligent Life contributing editor Kavanagh (
Nureyev: The Life, 2007, etc.) attempts to sort out the biography of the short-lived Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis (1824–1847).
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NONFICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"Groundbreaking history not to be missed--a book to quote and to keep, as the material is rich enough to merit rereading."
Offering a corrective to traditional accounts depicting united American revolutionaries, this valuable revisionist assessment profiles the men who struggled against the nascent nation's more radical elements.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"Certain hokum for skeptics, but the more open-minded will savor this chillingly convincing testimonial."
Prolific Irish author and lecturer Brennan's (
Magic & Mysticism in Tibet, 2010, etc.) lifelong fascination with psychic phenomena fuels this comprehensive analysis of potential supernatural influences on history.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Dense, repetitive commentary that may lead some readers back to The Prince."
A convoluted return to the misunderstood work of the wily Florentine bureaucrat and philosopher.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Despite its length, a tremendously engaging work with few dull moments."
The exhaustive second volume of this definitive biography treats the admiral's supreme command of the British Navy and the bittersweet Lady Hamilton years.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Clear, focused snapshots of a movement and its celebrated leader."
The author of
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (2009) returns with an examination of transformative events in American cultural history--and of that great transformer himself, Benjamin Franklin.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Insightful social history with a light touch."
Koppel (
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal, 2008, etc.) explores the cohesiveness of a group of wives who formed an unofficial support group and their individual development during the early years of the Cold War.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"An intriguing, revealing study of Arabs' changing views of themselves and the world as their countries open up--deserves a wide audience."
NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony."
Anne Frank, before and after the diary, with many new details and a fresh, welcome perspective.
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