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|  | Love on Trial by Earl Lewis, Heidi Ardizzone
When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation--and forced the couple into an annulment trial. AUTHOR: Earl Lewis, Heidi Ardizzone
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Phantom Warrior by Gary A. Linderer
Description not available.The author of The Eyes of the Eagle and Six Silent Men continues his true-life chronicles about the daring exploits of covert U.S. long-range reconnaissance patrols--the LRRP, LRP, and Ranger units--during combat in Vietnam. Original. AUTHOR: Gary A. Linderer
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | To Be a Slave by Julius Lester, Lynne Thigpen, Michele-Denise Woods, Peter F. James, Tom Feelings
Description not available.A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. A Newbery Honor Book. SLJ. AUTHOR: Julius Lester, Lynne Thigpen, Michele-Denise Woods, Peter F. James, Tom Feelings
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Guadalcanal by Richard B. Frank
The battle at Guadalcanal marked the first American offensive of World War II and was fought on land, at sea, and in the air. For six months the Americans and the Japanese clashed in brutal warfare that escalated to unimagined levels of sustained violence. 50 photographs; 30 maps. AUTHOR: Richard B. Frank
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Hitler's Italian Allies by MacGregor Knox
This book explains why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffectual at an activity-war-that was central to their existence. Italy's economic fragility, Mussolini's strategic-ideological fantasies, and Hitler's failure in the wider war made Italy's ruin inevitable, but did not determine its peculiarly undignified character. HITLER'S ITALIAN ALLIES demonstrates the extent to which Italian military culture-a concept with applications far beyond Fascist Italy-made humiliation inescapable. It offers a striking portrait of a military and industrial establishment largely unable to imagine modern war and of a regime that failed miserably in mobilizing the nation's resources. Above all, it explains why the armed forces, despite the distinguished performance of a few elite units, dissolved prematurely and almost without resistance-in stark contrast to the grim fight to the last cartridge of Hitler's army and the fanatical faithfulness unto death of the troops of Imperial Japan. AUTHOR: MacGregor Knox
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Frontier Blood by Jo Ella Powell Exley
The descendants of Elder John Parker were a strange and often brilliant family who may have changed the course of Texas and Western history. Their obsession with religion and their desire for land took them from Virginia to Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, and finally Texas. From their midst came Cynthia Ann, taken captive by Comanches as a young girl and recaptured as an adult to live in grief among her birth family until she died. From their line too came her son, Quanah Parker, last of the great Comanche war chiefs-and first of their great peace leaders. Although the broad outlines of the stories of Cynthia Ann and Quanah are familiar, Jo Ella Powell Exley adds a new dimension by placing them in the context of the stubborn, strong, contentious Parker clan, who lived near and dealt with restive Indians across successive frontiers until history finally brought them to Texas, where their fate changed. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, including several first-person stories, Exley follows Cynthia Ann through her life in the Indian camp and eventually her recapture by her birth family. She also tells the dramatic story of Quanah Parker through childhood, battle, surrender, and reservation life. This narrative is filled with authentic flavor and sets straight a story that has sometimes been distorted. It offers new insight if not a definitive interpretation of Cynthia Ann Parker's last years, providing a more complex picture of the white years of a woman who had matured among the Comanches since the age of nine. Among the documents from which Exley draws are a short autobiography of Daniel Parker, Rachel Parker Plummer's two narratives of her Indian captivity, James Parker's account of his search for Rachel and the other captives, and several autobiographical accounts Quanah dictated to his friends. Exley tells a compelling story and gives rich character insights into the extended Parker family. But she also does more: she gives a feeling o AUTHOR: Jo Ella Powell Exley
PUBLISHER: Texas A & M University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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