“The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubtthe dirtiest, roughest job of them all.” He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and ateetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer,and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. Hisname is Dean Joy, and this was his war. For two months in 1945, Joy endured and survived the everydaydeprivations and dangers of being a frontline infantryman. Hisamazingly detailed memoir, self-illustrated with numerous scenesJoy remembers from his time in Europe, brings back the sights,sounds, and smells of the experience as few books ever have. Hereis the story of a young man who dreamed of flying fighter aircraftand instead was chosen to be cannon fodder in France and Germany .. . who witnessed the brutality of Nazis killing Allied medics byusing the cross on their helmets as targets . . . and who narrowlyescaped being wounded or killed in several “near miss” episodes,the last of which occurred o

From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through theTheresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way toAuschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In TheGirls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmotherstoday in their seventies—tell us how they did it. The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countries all overEurope were aware of the fate that awaited them, and they decidedthat it was the young people who had the best chance to survive.Keeping these adolescents alive, keeping them whole in body, mind,and spirit, became the priority. They were housed separately, indormitory-like barracks, where they had a greater chance of stayinghealthy and better access to food, and where counselors (young menand women who had been teachers and youth workers) created adisciplined environment despite the surrounding horrors. Thecounselors also made available to the young people the talents ofan amazing array of world-class artists, musicians, andplaywrights–Euro

In this thrilling narrative history of the Civil War’s moststrategically important campaign, Winston Groom describes thebloody two-year grind that started when Ulysses S. Grant begantaking a series of Confederate strongholds in 1861, climaxing withthe siege of Vicksburg two years later. For Grant and the Union itwas a crucial success that captured the Mississippi River, dividedthe South in half, and set the stage for eventual victory. Vicksburg, 1863 brings the battles and the protagonists ofthis struggle to life: we see Grant in all his grim determination,Sherman with his feistiness and talent for war, and Confederateleaders from Jefferson Davis to Joe Johnston to John Pemberton. Itis an epic account by a masterful writer and historian.

In nineteenth-century Boston, amidst the popular lecturing ofRalph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by MargaretFuller, sat a remarkable young woman, Caroline Healey Dall(1822-1912): transcendentalist, early feminist, writer, reformer,and, perhaps most importantly, active diarist. During theseventy-five years that Dall kept a diary, she captured all thefascinating details of her sometimes agonizing personal life, andshe also wrote about all the major figures who surrounded her. Herdiary, filling forty-five volumes, is perhaps the longest runningdiary ever written by any American and the most complete account ofa nineteenth-century woman's life. In Daughter of Boston, scholar Helen Deese has painstakinglycombed through these diaries and created a single fascinatingvolume of Dall's observations, judgments, de*ions, andreactions.

Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity.This is her story as told by her skipper.

Could Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86), the Enlightenment Jewishphilosopher and originator of the Bi’ur (a translation of the Bibleinto German in Hebrew characters), have seen what a Galician-bornJewish artist used for the frontispiece of an illustrated Bible atthe beginning of the twentieth century, he would certainly havebeen shocked and uncomfortable. But whether Ephraim Moses Lilien(1874–1925) was out to stun his audience or was just deeplyengrossed in the art nouveau style is at present of littlesignificance. However, by placing the renowned thinker alongsidethe less-known, erstwhile Zionist artist, we get a fuller view ofthe cultural transformation of West and Central European Jewryduring a century and a half. Jewish sensibilities and concerns wereradically transposed as the engagement with a panoply of culturalorientations superseded earlier pinnacles of Jewish integration,such as Muslim Spain. Even the Bible, the Old Testament, thetouchstone of Judaism, would be refracted and refashioned in am

From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisivevolume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates LatinAmerica’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the mosthighly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complexthreads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination ofdespotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept FidelCastro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can writewith such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos,leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and politicalfigures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president,Vicente Fox. Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana orstaying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniacSubcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion andknowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst.Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of JoanDidion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant,

A raw, heartfelt story of how a man of valor lost his bearingsand eventually found the courage to share his story. Shadow of theSword leaves you hoping and cheering for the happy ending thatWorkman deserves.—Bing West, author of The Strongest Tribe "In writing this moving and incredibly honest book, Workman showsat least as much courage as he did in Fallujah. His story giveshope to anyone who struggles that they, too, can overcome if theyjust keep fighting—one day at a time, one battle at a time, onevictory at a time."—Donovan Campbell, author of Joker One

master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of theCivil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs ofcommanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle.Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals thehuman dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38b w photos. From the Hardcover edition.

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazedacross Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw moreevidence of a slave uprising. In the end, thirteen black men wereburned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than onehundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath CityHall. In New York Burning , Bancroft Prize-winning historian JillLepore recounts these dramatic events, re-creating, withpath-breaking research, the nascent New York of the seventeenthcentury. Even then, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures,communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth ofthe population. Exploring the political and social climate of thetimes, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with stateintrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the whitepolitical pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear andviolence.

In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to themost successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsiblefor transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoirof the journey in which ten family members retraced theirancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—fromNew England to West Africa to Cuba—and uncovered the hidden historyof New England and the other northern states.

The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazipolicymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are theproceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, anddoctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture andexecution of prisoners inside the Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg,and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Justice at Dachau, M.Greene, maker of the award winning documentary film Witness: Voicesfrom the Holocaust, recreates the Dachau trials and reveals thedramatic story of William Denson, a soft-spoken young lawyer fromAlabama whisked from teaching law at West Point to leading theprosecution in the largest series of Nazi trials in history. In a makeshift courtroom set up inside Hitler’s firstconcentration camp, Denson was charged with building a team fromlawyers who had no background in war crimes and determining chargesfor crimes that courts had never before confronted. Among theaccused were Dr. Klaus Schilling, responsible for hundreds ofdeaths

Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembledanthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of theAfrican American experience. From the Middle Passage to theMillion Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range ofvoices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compellinghistorical portrait: Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreadingthe Word Frederick Douglass on life in the North W.E.B. Du Bois on theTalented Tenth Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole Harriot Jacobs onrunning away James Cameron on escaping a mob lynichingAlvin Ailey on the worldof dance Langston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance Curtis Morriw on theKorean War Max ROach on "jazz" as a four-letter wordLL Cool J on rap Mary Church Terrell on the Chicago World's FairRev. Bernice Kingon the future of Black America And many others

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At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across thenight sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to theArctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning ofdoom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrimsprepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, theatmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men andwomen readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divineretribution. Against this background, and amid deep economicdepression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile. Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built athriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, andcattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts,New England, and a new nation. Using a wealth of new evidence fromlandscape, archaeology, and hundreds of overlooked or neglecteddocuments, Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly originalaccount of the Mayflower project and the first decade of thePlymouth Colon

Gibbon'sDeclineandFalloftheRomanEmpire,publishedbetween1776and1788,istheundisputedmasterpieceofEnglishhistoricalwritingwhichcanonlyperishwiththelanguageitself.Itslengthaloneisameasureofitsmonumentalquality:seventy-onechapters,ofwhichtwenty-eightappearinfullinthisedition.Withstyle,learningandwit,GibbontakesthereaderthroughthehistoryofEuropefromthesecondcenturyADtothefallofConstantinoplein1453-anenthrallingaccountby'thegreatestofthehistoriansoftheEnlightenment'.ThiseditionincludesGibbon'sfootnotesandquotations,heretranslatedforthefirsttime,togetherwithbriefexplanatorycomments,aprecisofthechaptersnotincluded,16maps,aglossary,andalistofemperors. 爱德华·吉本出身于一个拥有大地产的资产阶级家族。据他追记，其家 族在 14 世纪时开始拥有土地。到 16 世纪后期，其远祖已获得缙绅的称号。当时风气，农村殷实之家，大都把子弟送往城市习商。这个家族已有几代人 到伦敦从事商业活动，并出现过一位周游西欧并远游美洲

A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of therefugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essentialrole in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by theAllies after the war. After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots,soldiers, and sailors escaped to England. Devoted to liberatingtheir homeland, some would form the RAF’s 303 squadron, known asthe Kosciuszko Squadron, after the elite unit in which many hadflown back home. Their thrilling exploits and fearless flying madethem celebrities in Britain, where they were “adopted” bysocialites and seduced by countless women, even as they yearned fornews from home. During the Battle of Britain, they downed moreGerman aircraft than any other squadron, but in a stunning twist atthe war’s end, the Allies rewarded their valor by abandoning Polandto Joseph Stalin. This moving, fascinating book uncovers a crucialforgotten chapter in World War II–and Polish–history.

An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraqshows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product oftwo decades of profound changes in the American approach todefense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The firstdetailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought the way itwas, the book examines the planning and preparation for war.Richard P. Hallion argues that the ascendancy of precision airpower in warfare—which fulfilled the promise that air power hadheld for more than seventy-five years—reflects the revolutionaryadaptation of a war strategy that targets things rather thanpeople, allowing one to control an opposing nation withoutdestroying it.

In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, TomBrokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of ageduring the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, inBoom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epicportrait of another defining era in America as he brings to lifethe tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. Thevoices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens cometogether as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through aremarkable time, exploring how individual lives and the nationalmindset were affected by a controversial era and showing how theaftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today.In the reflections of a generation, Brokaw also discovers lessonsthat might guide us in the years ahead. Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit,and the next minute it was time to “turn on, tune in, drop out.”While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying inVietnam. Nothing w

The Definitive Resource on How to Identify, Treat, and Livewith a Bipolar Child More than three million American children suffer from some formof bipolar disorder, a life-impairing illness that can cause wildmood swings and even episodes of rage. But as a parent, can youtell the difference between a tempermental, moody child and onefacing serious mental illness? Where do you turn if your child’stantrums and meltdowns are wreaking havoc? For families as well asprofessionals, here is the only book on early- onset bipolardisorder written by pediatric specialists who combine clinical careand research. Health experts once thought bipolar disorder, also known as manicdepression, did not exist in children and teens. However, leadingexperts like Janet Wozniak and Mary Ann McDonnell have shown thatthe illness may appear even before age six, with many cases eitherundiagnosed or misdiagnosed as Attention Deficit HyperactivityDisorder (ADHD). Now, in the most complete and authoritative g