|
|
|
|  | Auschwitz by David Hirsch, Eli Pfefferkorn, Roslyn Hirsch, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Description not available.The author, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz for two years, describes her experiences, and the horrifying experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele AUTHOR: David Hirsch, Eli Pfefferkorn, Roslyn Hirsch, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
|
 | Sketches in Pen & Ink by Vanessa Bell
Seven short essays by the painter Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), a key figure in the Bloomsbury group, in which she discusses various aspects of her life, including her long affair with artist Roger Fry. The book includes an introduction by her daughter, Angelica Garnett, and includes woodcuts and drawings by Bell herself. AUTHOR: Vanessa Bell
PUBLISHER: Pimlico
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
|
 | Low Life by Luc Sante
This acclaimed history of New York concentrates on the city's dark underside, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A gifted writer with a lucid yet lyrical style, Sante brings an incredible secret history to life. He writes of saloons frequented only by street urchins under the age of twelve, of waterfront hotels with trapdoors in the floor for the easy disposal of bodies, and of a host of other factoids that he unearthed during years of research in dusty municipal archives. AUTHOR: Luc Sante
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
|
 | Target Hiroshima by Al Christman
For better or worse, Navy captain William S. Deak Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the assembly of Little Boy during the flight to Hiroshima. As bomb commander, he approved the release of the bomb that forever changed the world. Yet over the past fifty, years only fragments of his story have appeared, in part because of his own self-effacement and the nation's demand for secrecy. Based on recently declassified Manhattan Project documents, including Parsons's logs and other untapped sources, the book offers an unvarnished account of this unsung hero and his involvement in some of the greatest scientific advances of the twentieth century. Described by the author as a naval officer with the heart of a sailor and the searching mind of a scientist, Parsons was the first officer to recognize radar's full potential, the military's leader in the development of the proximity fuse, and the warrior who took both that fuse and the atom bomb -- the two most revolutionary weapons of World War II -- into combat. Al Christman credits the success of many programs to Parsons's battles against bureaucratic inertia, his championing of new ideas, and his charismatic but low-key leadership. His influence continued even after the war when the so-called Atomic Admiral helped establish the Navy's postwar nuclear policies and advance the scientific developments that are at the heart of today's sea service. Filled with human drama set against a background of national peril, this book tells a fascinating story that will draw in even the nontechnicalreader. AUTHOR: Al Christman
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
|
 | The Union Divided by Mark E. Neely
In THE UNION DIVIDED, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., vividly recounts the surprising story of political conflict in the North during the Civil War. Examining party conflict as viewed through the lens of the developing war, the excesses of party patronage, the impact of wartime elections, the highly partisan press, and the role of the loyal opposition, Neely deftly dismantles the argument long established in Civil War scholarship that the survival of the party system in the North contributed to its victory. The many positive effects attributed to the party system were in fact the result of the fundamental operation of the Constitution, in particular a four-year president who was commander in chief. In several ways, the party system actually undermined the Northern war effort; Americans uneasy about normal party operations in the abnormal circumstances of civil war saw near-treason in the loyal opposition. AUTHOR: Mark E. Neely
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
|
 | On This Day in History by R. Anistasia Miller
Description not available.Presents a day-by-day look at the events, people, and places that made history throughout the years. AUTHOR: R. Anistasia Miller
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
|
|
|
