War Nonfiction

The Gas and Flame Men explores how these famous baseball men, along with an eclectic mix of polo players, collegiate baseball and football stars, professors, architects, and prominent social figures all came together in the Chemical Warfare Service. Jim Leeke examines their service and its long-term effects on their physical and mental health-and on Major League Baseball and the world of sports.

Imagine having everything taken away from you - permanently - with no hope of resuming a normal life. This is the case for many teenagers in America who are tried and convicted as adults for the crime of murder. Here Susan Kuklin takes you behind bars for frank interviews with a collection of young men who will spend the better part of their lives in jail. She lets them speak for themselves, providing the raw details of their incarceration and the anger, despair, and surprising hope they experience every day. Kuklin also provides an in-depth look at the American penal system, highlighting its many intricacies and inequities while focusing on capital cases involving juveniles.

Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the 20th century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this gripping Civil War history, Fox Business's Gerri Willis charts the making of a spymaster genius. Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit—the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become a Union...

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War. In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live—and to create—with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War “Now, as certainly as never before, we are determined or compelled, to take...

After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another.

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in...

“A crucial study in the political manipulation of intelligence, understanding how Curveball got us into Iraq will arm us for the next round of lies coming out of Washington.”—Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism...

As World War II raged, millions of men and women confronted injury, destruction, separation from home and loved ones, chaos, and death. These challenges and traumas and many others forced an entire generation of everyday heroes to take stock of their lives. And in the process, many turned to God...

Er stammte aus ärmlichsten Verhältnissen und war voller Ideen: Karl May. Er konnte sich zum Hilfslehrer hocharbeiten, aber das war immer noch ein armseliger Beruf. Karl wollte höher hinaus, er wollte die Welt in ihrer ganzen Schönheit erleben dürfen. Er träumte von fremden Ländern und einem abenteuerlichen Leben und merkte, dass er davon schreiben konnte und dass die Leute ganz gebannt lasen, was er schrieb. Er wurde Schriftsteller, und zwar ein erfolgreicher.

Axel Brüggemann lässt das Klischee vom "Wolferl", dem "Donnerblitzbub", hinter sich und nimmt seine jungen Hörer ebenso ernst wie den genialen Komponisten und Musiker. Er zeigt, dass Mozart kein braver Knabe, sondern eigensinnig und unangepasst war, ähnlich wie ein Popmusiker von heute. Das Hörbuch beginnt nicht mit dem vierjährigen Wunderkind Mozart, sondern mit dem ausgezehrten, fiebernden Mozart, der auf dem Sterbebett die dramatische Musik seines Requiems diktiert und sich dazwischen an sein Leben zurückerinnert.

Alles beginnt damit, dass der junge Robert von Locksley durch Betrug und Intrige seinen Besitz verliert und als Geächteter in den Sherwood Forest flieht. Dort trifft er auf Gleichgesinnte, die bald seine getreuen Gefährten und unzertrennlichen Freunde werden. Robins Stockkampf mit dem riesenhaften Little John fehlt ebenso wenig wie das Wettschießen mit dem meisterhaften Bogenschützen Scarlet oder die Begegnung mit Bruder Tuck, dem stets hungrigen Philosophen unter den Männern im Wald. Gemeinsam setzen sie sich gegen den rachsüchtigen Guy von Gisbourne zur Wehr. Und gegen Robins anderen großen Widersacher, den mächtigen Sheriff von Nottingham, der kein anderes Ziel kennt, als die Bande endlich zur Strecke zu bringen. Zahlreiche gefährliche Abenteuer sind zu bestehen, bevor Robin Hood am Ende sogar Richard Löwenherz begegnet, dem großen König von England.

Wer war Klaus Störtebeker? Das Schicksal dieses Piraten fasziniert die Menschen seit vielen Jahrhunderten und hat zahlreiche Legenden angeregt. In ihrer lebendigen und farbigen Erzählung porträtiert Kirsten John den "deutschen Robin Hood" und berühmten Seeräuber, der die reichen Kaufleute in Hamburg und Bremen ausraubte und seine Beute unter den Armen verteilte. Von den Kaufleuten gehasst und gefürchtet, stiegen Störtebeker und seine Männer zu Volkshelden der kleinen Leute in Norddeutschland auf.

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in...

The story of a dog so brave he saved lives and won hearts. This is the true heart-warming story of Stubby, a small, stump-tailed terrier who fought alongside Allied forces on the Western Front during World War I. This brave and clever dog could detect enemy soldiers, impending gas attacks, and even salute higher-ranking officers! But even more, this is the story of the remarkable friendship between an American soldier named Robert Conroy and the stray who adopted him and his unit.

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an...

Adults wage war, while children are unwitting victims, pulled into a maelstrom of fear and hate without any choice. This is a story about two groups of teenagers on opposite sides of the world, forever connected by an act of war. It is a story about the adults some of those teens became, forever connected by acts of forgiveness, understanding, and peace. And it is a story about one remarkable man, whose heart belonged to both America and Japan, who put that peace and understanding in motion.

A page-turning middle-grade adaptation of the New York Times bestseller about how a newly independent nation was challenged by foreign powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply...

In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the amazing true story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II. More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II, recruited by the U.S...