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  Tarnished Victory - Finishing...

  William Marvel

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  A “full and insightful” account of the Civil War’s final year from the award-winning author of Lee’s Last Retreat (Publishers Weekly). Beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns of May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865, Tarnished Victory follows the course of the Civil War’s final year. As the death toll rises with each bloody battle, the home front is devastated and the nation suffers incredible losses on both sides of the political divide.   Victory in the North required great sacrifice, and here, “first-rate scholar,” William Marvel considers what that sacrifice was worth in the aftermath of 1865, as Abraham Lincoln’s political heirs failed to carry through on the occupation of the South, resulting in a tarnished victory (Booklist).   Just as he did in Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, Lincoln’s Darkest Year, and The Great Task Remaining, the prize-winning historian has drawn on personal letters, newspaper articles of the time, and official documents and records to create an illuminating work of revisionist history that ultimately considers the true cost of Lincoln’s war.

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  A Faraway Country

  Ruth Boswell

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  Czechoslovakia 1938-39. The annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany, its catastrophic effect on a family living in Prague, the political fallout of appeasement. The book ends with the invasion of Czrchoslovakia in March 1939.

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  To Mom and Dad with love - My...

  HARRY KUPERBERG

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  My Mom escaped from the Umschlagplatz or meeting place in Opatow Poland.She quickly found herself with Identification papers and a new identity in Warsaw.She became an important member of the Partisans conducting Espionage and Military attacks with my Father.He was in the Warsaw Ghetto with rebels fighting the Nazi as he kept a hidden Bakery and took good care of his beloved parents.With the Sewers as his transportation system he and my Mom were instrumental in saving many Jewish children and often their families as well.They almost escaped Warsaw by flying out of a German military airport with Diplomatic passports issued by the Portuguese Embassy.But after taking off from an Airport teeming with the German military the Plane had engine trouble and needed to return to the Airport.

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  What She Said & What I Heard -...

  Stuart Watson

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  Meet a man who actually listens to women. 
  What She Said & What I Heard is the compulsively readable memoir of an investigative reporter who spent one whole career talking before finally learning how to listen. The story is told through a series of interactions with women in which the author stopped talking, really listened, and changed for the better as a result. 
  With links to audio and video interviews with many of the women, each compelling chapter is an immersive experience that grabs hold and does not let go.

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  Tornado Over the Tigris -...

  Michael Napier

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  A Royal Air Force pilot recounts his service flying Tornados over Cold War-era Germany and post-Gulf War Iraq in this thrilling military memoir.After achieving a boyhood ambition to qualify as an RAF pilot, Michael Napier was posted to RAF Bruggen in Germany where he spent five years flying Tornado GR1s at the height of the Cold War. Always exhilarating and often dangerous, Michael Napier’s Tornado flying ranged from ‘routine’ low-flying in continental Europe and the UK to air combat maneuvering in Sardinia and the ultra-realistic Red Flag exercises in the United States. From a struggling first-tourist to a respected four-ship leader, Napier became an instructor at the Tactical Weapons Unit at RAF Chivenor. He later returned to flying the Tornado at Bruggen as a Flight Commander shortly after the Gulf War, flying a number of operational sorties over Iraq, which included leading air-strikes against Iraqi air defense installations as part of major Coalition operations. With candor and vivid detail, Napier offers an insider’s look at one of the RAF’s legendary, now retired, Torando aircraft.

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  Elizabeth - The Life of...

  Alexander Walker

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  A serious and in-depth look at one of the great legends of Hollywood by the London film critic and author of Audrey: Her Real Story.   Elizabeth Taylor was perhaps the most “public” of the great stars: an Oscar–winning actress who lived her entire life in the glare of the spotlights. Much has been written about her, but now—with the readability, sensitivity, and thoroughness that have made his previous biographies bestsellers—Alexander Walker explores the roots of Taylor’s extraordinary personality and extraordinary life.   Here is a life to rival the very movies she played in, told with immense candor, wit, and sympathy: from her privileged London childhood, the enormous influence of her strong-willed mother, and her swift rise to stardom in such films as National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, and the catastrophe-ridden Cleopatra; to her six husbands, her desperate need to love and be loved, her obsession with jewelry, and the amazing resilience that helped her weather not only condemnation for “the most public adultery in history,” but also dramatic illnesses that brought her to the verge of death—and, according to her, beyond.   Using scores of unpublished documents and interviews with those who knew Taylor best, as well as his own meetings with her over thirty years, Alexander Walker recreates the comedies and tragedies in the life of a woman whose rewards and scandals have become the stuff of legend.

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