NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF ...
Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and Pound, lover of actress Eleonora Duse: here is Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s extraordinary biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio, poet, bon ...
... in author's possession . During Hallstein's presidency , members of this leading body included Gaston Deferre ( Vice - President ) , Robert Van Schendel ( Secretary- General ) and Karl ... loosely translated in Europe in the Making ...
An adaptation of the legend of Sunsin Yi, a young boy in sixteenth-century Korea, who, inspired by his pet turtle, designs one of the greatest battleships in history and fulfills his dream of sailing the world.
... in author Carl Burns' forthcoming book The TRUTH About American History: What They Didn't Teach You in School. Not ... loose a loud, shrill whistle whenever he wanted his Cabinet members to snap to attention. . Ğrm confident out l ...
"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.
CMH Pub 50-1-1. Defense Studies Series. Discusses the evolution of the services' racial policies and practices between World War II and 1965 during the period when black servicemen and women were integrated into the Nation's military units.
Getting the Message Through, the companion volume to Rebecca Robbins Raines' Signal Corps, traces the evolution of the corps from the appointment of the first signal officer on the eve of the Civil War, through its stages of growth and ...
Miraculously, he recovered. When he passed away in 1999 from natural causes, he left behind a body of work that continues to sell hundreds of thousands of copies a year. Just One Catch is the first biography of Yossarian's creator.
... Carl Justi's " Diego Velasquez and His Times , " trans- lated by Professor ... Lucy Smith , " by George S. Merriam ; a biography of the author of ... father one day when he espied a toy shop . " Papa , " said he , " I wish you ...