922円 Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his lifeーfrom slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition f...

2,177円 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known. In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not...

2,248円 The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from enslavement in the United States to freedom in Canada. Ma...

1,192円 Combat Doctor presents the stories of the victims of the War in Afghanistan, as told by the last Canadian Officer Commanding at the Kandahar Role 3 Multinational Hospital. In 2009, Marc Dauphin, an experienced emergency-room physician, served a full tour at the combat hospital in Kandahar. During...

1,192円 After Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victory General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all. As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology. During World War II, he serv...

2,334円 No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblingsーespecially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling book Uncle Tom’s...

403円 Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636–1710) was a French-Canadian fur trader and explorer. He is often linked to his brother-in-law Medard des Groseilliers who was about 20 years older. The decision of Radisson and Groseilliers to enter the English service led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company...

330円 Gandhiji's life was dedicated to the ideals of Truth, Non-violence and Love. The Bhagavad Gita is my mother/ he once said; and the name of Sri Rama was his shield. He was the architect of India's freedom and one of the greatest men of this century.

200円 The First World War touched the lives of millions. But THE LOVE OF A BROTHER is a very personal story of how the hostilities affected one large, close-knit family from London's East End in the early 1900s. It is told with loving affection through the eyes of one man whose seemingly unbreakable bo...

299円 This beautifully presented edition reproduces all of Doré's London illustrations alongside carefully selected texts of the period.

1,000円 The Journey of a Child Holocaust Survivor The enormity of the destruction of six million Jews in a span of less than a decade is a challenge for most to conceptualize. As a young boy born into a privileged life in Europe, Lou Gross had a rich quality of life. With the onset of World War II though...

800円 In his debut work Meantime: The Aesthetics of Soldiering, Stephen Paul Register weaves something of beauty from dust and desert to grapple with the question: "What does it mean to be a soldier?" He writes from the depths of his experience and transports the reader from dusty Baghdad to flooded Mi...