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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

THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of thebloodiest episodes in British history ? wars between the houses ofYork and Lancaster. Trevor Royle provides a military history of theWars while placing the conflict in the context of the time. Thiswas a period with a rich legacy: William Caxton introduced the artof printing; there was a growing body of literature, such asChaucer, in the English tongue; architecture flourished and greateducational institutions were born such as Winchester School andKing's College, Cambridge.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves,diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich andadmirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York TimesBook Review ) aims to show how, during the Civil War and afterEmancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatizednot only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensionsthat had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."

The 2007–08 subprime financial crisis is the jumping-off point for Smick's (Johnson Smick International) examination of current threats to global prosperity. He explains that although the subprime losses are small in the context of world financial markets, a lack of transparency has diminished investor confidence, dried up financial liquidity, and threatened the very foundations of our world financial system. He says that the growth of global financial markets has made it more difficult for central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve to intercede effectively in times of crisis. Smick compares the subprime crisis to past events like the UK's forced devaluation of the pound in 1992 and Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s. He warns of pending dangers like an overheating of the Chinese development juggernaut and the present calls for protectionism by U.S. politicians. He favors a global financial system built on transparency and trust. Smick's role for some 30 years as an economic adviser to central banker

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review ? The Washington Post ?Entertainment Weekly ? The Seattle Times ? St. LouisPost-Dispatch In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorof American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life anextraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: TheArt of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, agreat and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of hisera. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s geniuswas that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Suchis the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understandingof power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshalideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate aboutmany things—women, his family, books, science, architecture,gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved Americamost, and he strove over an

"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, toNormandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversaryof D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe thatmarked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked thebeaches with the American veterans who had returned for thisanniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened totheir stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for allthey had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for thefiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come tounderstand what this generation of Americans meant to history. Itis, I believe, the greatest generation any society has everproduced." In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tellthrough the stories of individual men and women the story of ageneration, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of ageduring the Great Depression and the Second World War and went

Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive inunearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, RITES OFSPRING probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of WorldWar I -- from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite ofSpring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," asModris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . .for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge todestroy had changed places." In this "bold and fertile book"(Atlantic Monthly), Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts inhuman consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm throughthe lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, andsuch events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publicationof the first modern bestseller, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.RITES OF SPRING is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural historythat redefines the way we look at our past and toward ourfuture.

The first authorized inside account of one of the mostdaring—and successful—military operations in recent history From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein hadvowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-linenuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiablyconcerned—especially when they discovered that Iraqi scientists hadalready formulated a secret program to extract weapons-gradeplutonium from the reactor, a first critical step in creating anatomic bomb. The reactor formed the heart of a huge nuclear plantsituated twelve miles from Baghdad, 1,100 kilometers from Tel Aviv.By 1981, the reactor was on the verge of becoming “hot,” andIsraeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin knew he would have toconfront its deadly potential. He turned to Israeli Air Forcecommander General David Ivry to secretly plan a daring surgicalstrike on the reactor—a never-before-contemplated mission thatwould prove to be one of the most remarkable military operations ofall time. Written