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|  | Red Wings over the Yalu by Joseph G. Dawson
Description not available.The role of the fledgling Chinese air force in the Korean War is explored for the first time here, with details of Soviet assistance and air battles over Korea that helped shape this emerging arm of Chinese power. (Military History AUTHOR: Joseph G. Dawson
PUBLISHER: Texas A & M University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Longest Night by David J. Eicher, James M. McPherson, Lee Vander Visse
This one-volume military history of the American Civil War chronicles the major battles and key figures, as well as lesser known, but important, battles on land and sea and in the West. It also includes topics such a prisons, railroads, the role of African Americans, and cultural changes in both the North and the South as they pertain to the conflict. AUTHOR: David J. Eicher, James M. McPherson, Lee Vander Visse
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The War for America, 1775-1783 by John W. Shy, Piers Mackesy
The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British, the American colonies were only one front in a world war. England was also pitted against France and Spain. Not always in command of the seas and threatened with invasion, England tried grimly for eight years to subdue her rebellious colonies; to hold Canada, the West Indies, India, and Gibraltar; and to divide her European enemies. In this vivid history Piers Mackesy views the American Revolution from the standpoint of the British government and the British military leaders as they attempted to execute an overseas war of great complexity. Their tactical response to the American Revolution is now comprehensible, seen as part of a grand imperial strategy. AUTHOR: John W. Shy, Piers Mackesy
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Left Hooks, Right Crosses by Christopher Caldwell, Christopher Hitchens
Description not available.In an incisive and thought-provoking debate, journalists--representing the left, and the right--duke it out over a host of issues facing the nation today--with contributions by Thomas Fleming, Susan Sontage, William Monahan, Tony Kushner, Kenneth Anderson, Nat Hentoff, David Brooks, Edward Said, Peter Collier,, and James Weinstein, among others. Original. AUTHOR: Christopher Caldwell, Christopher Hitchens
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | La Catastrophe by Alwyn Scarth
On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelee loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primarily on chilling eyewitness accounts. Scarth recounts how, for many days before the great eruption, a series of smaller eruptions spewed dust and ash. Then came the eruption. A blinding flash lit up the sky. A tremendous cannonade roared out that was heard in Venezuela. Then a scorching blast of superheated gas and ash shot straight down towards Saint-Pierre, racing down at hundreds of miles an hour. This infernal avalanche of dark, billowing, reddish-violet fumes, flashing lightning, ash and rocks, crashed and rolled headlong, destroying everything in its path--public buildings, private homes, the town hall, the Grand Hotel. Temperatures inside the cloud reached 450 degrees Celsius. Virtually everyone in Saint-Pierre died within minutes. Scarth tells of many lucky escapes--the ship Topaze left just hours before the eruption, a prisoner escaped death in solitary confinement. But these were the fortunate few. An official delegation sent later that day by the mayor of Fort-de-France reported total devastation--no quays, no trees, only shattered facades. Saint-Pierre was a smoldering ruin. In the tradition of A Perfect Storm and Isaac's Storm, but on a much larger scale, La Catastrophe takes readers inside the greatest volcanic eruption of the century and one of the most tragic natural disasters of all time. AUTHOR: Alwyn Scarth
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East by Michael Roaf, Nicholas Postgate
This sumptuously illustrated atlas re-creates the cradle of civilization through a brilliant integration of text, maps, and illustrations. AUTHOR: Michael Roaf, Nicholas Postgate
PUBLISHER: Facts on File Inc.
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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