On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, newspapers such as Hearst's New York Journal...
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Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilli...
Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about...
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Evan Thomas · ISBN 9780399589256
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti sidottu
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history--with you-are-ther...
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Evan Thomas · ISBN 9780399589270
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti nidottu
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history--with you-are-ther...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive inter...
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Evan Thomas · ISBN 9780593743874
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti nidottu
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history--with you-are-ther...
"What good is power without the time to use it?" - His Majesty King Ernesto Vesteille, more commonly known as 'The Twelve Hour King', moments before his execution. One final dec...
A wide-ranging, well-researched biography of Robert Kennedy delves deeply into the life of this shy, crusading, and sometimes ruthless politician, uncovering his use of "back ch...
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
Evan Thomas · ISBN 9780743258043
Julkaistu 2004 Kieli englanti nidottu
Traces the naval hero's modest Scottish origins, the circumstances that brought him to America under a charge of murder and a false name, his sea battle achievements, and his ac...
The landmark New York Times bestselling biography of Richard M. Nixon, a political savant whose gaping character flaws would drive him from the presidency and forever taint his...
Lloyd Salt is a child prodigy in the care of a secretive branch of the C.I.A. that raises and trains child geniuses for the greater good of the country. For Lloyd, that is a fam...
The Shipwreck of the Halsewell East-Indiaman; A Poem. with Notes, Giving a Full Account of That ... Catastrophe, from the Sailing of the Vessel, Jan 1st, to Its Destruction, Jan. 6th, 1786. to Which Is Added, a Consolatory Address
Evan Thomas · ISBN 9781171006138
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti pokkari
The Shipwreck of the Halsewell East-Indiaman; A Poem. with Notes, Giving a Full Account of That ... Catastrophe, from the Sailing of the Vessel, Jan 1st, to Its Destruction, Jan. 6th, 1786. to Which Is Added, a Consolatory Address
Evan Thomas · ISBN 9781385533048
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti sidottu
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its deter...
The Very Best Men tells the story of the four men who ran covert operations for the CIA from World War II to Vietnam. Frank Wisner was a wealthy southern gentleman who arrived i...
It's been four years since the crisis at the Coated Coast had revealed the ancient truth hidden in Lloyd's genetics. Growing up as a child prodigy and trained by a secretive bra...
‘A true page-turner.’ All About History, ????? ‘Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant’ Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb…...
‘A true page-turner.’ All About History, ????? ‘Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant’ Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb…...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive inter...
The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a visio...