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“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it haseverything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is animpressively researched and important story.” —David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched accountof the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modernEuropean history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumablydefeated and exiled to the small island of Elba, heads of some 216states gathered in Vienna to begin piecing together the ruins ofhis toppled empire. Major questions loomed: What would be done withFrance? How were the newly liberated territories to be divided?What type of restitution would be offered to families of thedeceased? But this unprecedented gathering of kings, dignitaries,and diplomatic leaders unfurled a seemingly endless stream ofpersonal vendettas, long-simmering feuds, and romanticentanglements that threatened to undermine the crucial work athand, even as their hard-fought policy dec
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashedinto the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray ofdebris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the oceansurface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, theplane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pullinghimself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys ofthe Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d beena cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses,brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, hehad channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigioustalent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sightof the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete hadbecome an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomedflight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leapingsharks, a foundering raft, t
“Will shape our thinking about America and theMiddle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek This best-selling history isthe first fully comprehensive history of America’s involvement inthe Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As NiallFerguson writes, “If you think America’s entanglement in the MiddleEast began with Roosevelt and Truman, Michael Oren’s deeplyresearched and brilliantly written history will be a revelation toyou, as it was to me. With its cast of fascinatingcharacters—earnest missionaries, maverick converts, wide-eyedtourists, and even a nineteenth-century George Bush— Power,Faith, and Fantasy is not only a terrific read, it is alsoproof that you don’t really understand an issue until you know itshistory.”
