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|  | After Tet by Ronald H. Spector
The TET Offensive of 1968 was supposed to mark a turning point in the war in Vietnam. In this brilliant and harrowing work, the bestselling author of Eagle Against the Sun shows the war that the TV missed--and reveals that TET was only the beginning. Photos. AUTHOR: Ronald H. Spector
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Nile by Cari Meister
Description not available.Surveys the origin, tributaries, history, plant and animal life, and the Aswan Dam of the Nile River. AUTHOR: Cari Meister
PUBLISHER: ABDO Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Tip of the Spear by G. J. Michaels
Images of U.S. Marines assaulting Pacific beaches in World War II have stereotyped the service's roles and personnel for more than fifty years. This frank firsthand account of Marines sweeping over sands of a different sort in fast armored vehicles retires that popular legend and recasts the Corps as the modern, professional fighting force it was in Desert Storm. Battling a savage environment, an unknown enemy brandishing threats of nuclear, gas, and biological attacks, and a host of technological and tactical snafus, Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion pushed forward at the tip of the spear past burning oil fields, hundreds of Iraqi tanks and vehicles, and heartrending friendly casualties to help liberate Kuwait City and drive the Iraqis back to Baghdad. Here G. J. Michaels, a section leader and vehicle commander, provides a vivid, personal chronicle of events as they unfolded. Michaels further draws on his thirteen years of LAV experience to examine lessons learned from the war as well as its controversies, including the confusion over use of the LAV as both recon scout and infantry support and the lack of effective identification/friend-or-foe systems. AUTHOR: G. J. Michaels
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | A Chosen Few by Mark Kurlansky
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settle--or remain--in Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price. Among the unexpected dangers, they have had to cope with an alarming resurgence of Nazism in Europe, the spread of Arab terrorism, and the impact of the Jewish state on European life. Delving into the intimate stories of European Jews from all walks of life, Kurlansky weaves together a vivid tapestry of individuals sustaining their traditions, and flourishing, in the shadow of history. An inspiring story of a tenacious people who have rebuilt their lives in the face of incomprehensible horror, A CHOSEN FEW is a testament to cultural survival and a celebration of the deep bonds that endure between Jews and European civilization. AUTHOR: Mark Kurlansky
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | At the Mind's Limits by Jean Amery, Sidney Rosenfeld, Stella P. Rosenfeld
Jean Amery (1921-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance. He was caught by the Germans in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival--mental, moral, and physical--through the enormity and horror of the Holocaust. AUTHOR: Jean Amery, Sidney Rosenfeld, Stella P. Rosenfeld
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Plague Wars by Goldberg Mangold, Jeff Goldberg
Biological warfare has already been declared. This is the definitive account of how and why....PLAGUE WARS has been impeccably researched over four continents, with the cooperation of the United Nations, the United States Department of Defense, and various civilian and military intelligence agencies around the world. The authors give readers exceptional access to the highest levels of government as world leaders like Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin grapple with the most important topic on the international agenda. AUTHOR: Goldberg Mangold, Jeff Goldberg
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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