Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley with Ron Powers

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $7.99

In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to... Read more >

Ghost Soldiers
The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Written by Hampton Sides

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $11.99

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the... Read more >

Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2013 Edition

Written by Princeton Review

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $12.99

If you need to know it, it’s in this book. Cracking the AP U.S. History, 2013 Edition has been optimized for e-reader viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations, and includes:

   • 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations 
   • In-depth history review of key and terms and concepts organized by time period, including the... Read more >

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Written by Edmund Morris

Format: eBook, 960 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99

Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901–1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige... Read more >

Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Written by Anne Applebaum

Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $17.99

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its... Read more >

We Band of Angels
The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
Written by Elizabeth Norman

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2011
Price: $9.99

"This is a gripping book. Elizabeth Norman presents a war story in which the main characters never kill one of the enemy, or even shoot at him, but are nevertheless heroes. . . . First on Bataan, then moved to Corregidor, they were under almost constant shell fire, were always hungry... Read more >

Jerusalem
The Biography
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.99

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine... Read more >

Blackett's War
The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Written by Stephen Budiansky

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.99

The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won.

In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts...

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Roberts Ridge

Written by Malcolm MacPherson

Format: eBook, 350 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $7.99

Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the man’s fellow Navy SEALs, and for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one rule now: leave no one behind. In this gripping you-are-there... Read more >

All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Written by Michael Patrick MacDonald

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2010
Price: $14.95

A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing... Read more >