This authoritative biography of film icon James Dean offers a clear-eyed look at the actor who crossed America's cinematic landscape with the brilliance and brevity of a meteor.
Written with Lead offers a compelling narrative history of twenty-one tragic episodes in American history-all involving firearms, heroes, and the ongoing public fascination with guns and gunfighters.
Through the skillful use of original source material, including Napoleon's own diaries, historian Christopher Hibbert re-creates the events and drama surrounding the famous battle. Waterloo begins wit
Author and explorer Neider writes about his third trip to Antarctica, telling of the beauty of the desolate land, its history, and the current ecological debates surrounding it.
This book is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of Germany's submarine fleet in World War II. Four months into the war U-boats had sunk one-third of the British battleships; six months after Ame
This highly praised book uses letters, diaries, and memoirs by Mongo Park, Richard Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others to provide a gripping account of the search for the sourc
