Authors Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, notable biographers of the World War II German leaders Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goring, delve into the life of one of the most sinister, clever, and successful of all the Nazi leaders: Heinrich...
From the acclaimed scholar and reporter, a thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam's long struggle--the 1954 battle for Dien Bien Phu
Like Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Midway, and Tet, the battle at Dien Bien Phu--a...
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has...
A Prisoner of Mankind
Semi-blind, his memory gone, he languished for forty-six years in
prison, and spent over half of that time in solitary confinement...
Never published in the US due to a clumsy mailing mishap by Macmillan, this book...
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae,...
Als Reichsführer SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei organisierte Heinrich Himmler die "Endlösung der Judenfrage". In dieser kommentierten Sammlung von Briefen an seine Ehefrau zeigt sich Himmler von seiner privatesten Seite: als fürsorglicher...