Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 551 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged in Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"--
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this thriller set in the Middle East of 1914, Somerville, a British archaeologist, and his team are excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace when an American geologist from an oil company posing as an archaeologist arrives one day and insinuates himself into Somerville's group. But he's not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on Iraq's rich oil fields.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Description
In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. Respect for sovereignty alone cannot uphold order in an age defined by global challenges from terrorism and the spread...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A top historian offers a compelling history of perhaps the most remarkable holiday season in 20th-century history--December 1941--a Christmas season that played out in the shadows of the Pearl Harbor attack and the start of America's involvement in World War II. Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock--in some cases overseas, elation--was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + Part 1 guidebook (ii, 69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.) + Part 2 guidebook (ii, 65 p. ; 22 cm.) + Part 3 guidebook (ii, 63 p. ; 22 cm.)
Description
Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken. It is essential that Westerners...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 645 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Chronicles the decisive month in American history, where the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor facilitated the entrance of the United States into World War II, and details the economic, social, and political climate of the country during that time.
Series
Library of America volume 212
Publisher
Distributed in the United States by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxv, 814 p. : col. maps ; 21 cm.
Description
"Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, this collection brings together over 120 pieces by more than 60 men and women to create a firsthand narrative of the first year of the Civil War. Beginning on the eve of Lincoln's election in 1860 and ending in January 1862 with the appointment of Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, the selections provide a sense of the immediacy, uncertainty,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title