Let's go Europe 2018

By Bunte-Mein, Julia

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 914.0456 BUN

There isn't a hostel in Hungary we haven't tested, a beer in Brussels we haven't imbibed, or a metro line in Madrid we haven't mastered. After going through the ups and downs, we know the ins and outs.

Hikertrash: life on the Pacific Crest Trail

By Miller, Erin

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 900

Call Number: 917.9 MIL

With no jobs, no responsibilities, and little cash, Carl & Erin leave snowy, ultra-conservative North Idaho behind to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. Told through journal entries, this is the story not of great epiphanies and personal growth, but rather the real daily life of long distance "hikertrash" hikers.

South America

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: 900

Call Number: 918

Marathon: how one battle changed Western civilization

By Billows, Richard A

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: 900

Call Number: 938 BIL

Traces the decisive military confrontation between Greek and Persian forces that led to an unexpected victory for the Greeks and the establishment of Greek cultural practices that became the basis for much of Western civilization.

The First World War: Galleries [The First World War retold]

By Cornish, Paul

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 900

Call Number: 940.3 COR

Revisits World War I, drawing on the archives of the Imperial War Museum, including oral histories, photographs, works of art, personal correspondence and diaries, and artifacts from machine guns to military vehicles.

Dark invasion: 1915: Germany's secret war and the hunt for the first terrorist cell in America

By Blum, Howard

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 940.4867 BLU

"Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plot--the basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper. When a "neutral" United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of saboteurs--including an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster--devise a series of "mysterious accidents" using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J.P. Morgan. New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them. Assembling a team of loyal operatives, the cunning Irish cop hunts for the conspirators among a population of more than eight million Germans. But the deeper he finds himself in this labyrinth of deception, the more Tunney realizes that the enemy's plan is far more complex and more dangerous than he suspected.Full of drama and intensity, illustrated with eight pages of black and-white photos, Dark Invasion is riveting war thriller that chillingly echoes our own time"--

Fire in the night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion

By Bierman, John

Publishing Date: ℗♭1999

Classification: 900

Call Number: 940.5423 BIE

Chronicles the life of World War II commander Orde Wingate.

The Shetland bus: a WWII epic of escape, survival, and adventure

By Howarth, David Armine

Publishing Date: 2001, c 1951

Classification: 900

Call Number: 940.5459 HOW

The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees, all under constant threat from German U-boats and winter storms.

Hero of the empire: the Boer War, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill

By Millard, Candice

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 941.084 MIL

"At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape -- but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him. The story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles, and ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned. Churchill would later remark that this period, "could I have seen my future, was to lay the foundations of my later life." Millard spins an epic story of bravery, savagery, and chance encounters with a cast of historical characters -- including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener, and Mohandas Gandhi -- with whom he would later share the world stage. But Hero of the Empire is more than an adventure story, for the lessons Churchill took from the Boer War would profoundly affect 20th century history."--

Albion: the origins of the English imagination

By Ackroyd, Peter

Publishing Date: 2003

Classification: 900

Call Number: 942 ACK

Offers an interpretation of English culture from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, demonstrating the quintessentially English quality of literature, music, painting, architecture, science, and philosophy. - (Baker & Taylor)

Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II

By Dower, John W

Publishing Date: 1999

Classification: 900

Call Number: 952.04 DOW

Chronicles the events that took place in Japan at the end of World War II and explores the effects they have had on the development and shaping of the Japanese society, from immediately after the war to the present day - (Baker & Taylor)

First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers

By Ung, Loung

Publishing Date: c2000

Classification: 900

Call Number: 959.6042 UNG

This is the story of Loung Ung, a survivor of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime.

Dereliction of duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam

By McMaster, H. R.

Publishing Date: 1998

Classification: 900

Call Number: 959.704 MCM

Examines the decisions made between 1963 and 1965 in regards to escalating United States involvement in the Vietnam War and looks at how early mistakes in policy formation were constantly repeated throughout the Johnson administration.

The poker bride: the first Chinese in the Wild West

By Corbett, Christopher

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973 COR

During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.

Abraham Lincoln

By Osborne, Mary Pope

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.7092 OSB

Presents a non-fiction companion to the book "Abe Lincoln At Last!," discussing what it was like to grow up in a log cabin and what Lincoln's family life was like, and describes how he became the sixteenth president of the United States.

A terrible glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn-- the last great battle of the American West

By Donovan, Jim

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.82 DON

In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid responsibility. Custer, who was conveniently dead, took the brunt of the blame. The truth, however, was far more complex. This is the first book to relate the entire story, and the first to call upon all the research and findings of the past 25 years--which have changed significantly how this controversial event is perceived. It is also the first book to bring to light the details of the U.S. Army cover-up--and unravel one of the greatest mysteries in U.S. military history.--From publisher description.

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Fire and fury: inside the Trump White House

By Wolff, Michael

Publishing Date: [2018]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.933 WOL

Thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff tells the story of the stormy first nine months of Donald Trump's term as President. Among the revelations: What President Trump's staff really thinks of him -- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama -- Why FBI director James Comey was really fired -- Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room -- Who is really directing the Trump administration's strategy in the wake of Bannon's firing -- What the secret to communicating with Trump is -- What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers.

John Mackay: silver king in the gilded age

By Makley, Michael J

Publishing Date: c2009

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.3 MAK

Mile-high fever: silver mines, boom towns, and high living on the Comstock Lode

By Drabelle, Dennis

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.356 DRA

A chronicle of the historical impact of the Comstock Lode silver boom evaluates how "mile-high fever" spurred the growth of San Francisco, established guidelines for the private exploitation of public lands, prompted numerous innovations, and furthered the victimization of Native Americans. - (Baker & Taylor)

Towers of gold: how one Jewish immigrant named Isaias Hellman created California

By Dinkelspiel, Frances

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.4 DIN

Traces the life of the savvy capitalist and banking guru whose life reflected the development of modern California, tracing his role in the construction of such organizations as the LA Times, USC, and the Wilshire Boulevard Temple. 15,000 first printing. - (Baker & Taylor)