The Greatest Generation

Written by Tom Brokaw

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1998
Price: $24.95

Read Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation in Large Print.

* All Random House Large Print Editions are published in 16-point type

"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of... Read more >

American Creation
Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Written by Joseph J. Ellis

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $26.95

From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic... Read more >

The American Civil War
A Military History
Written by John Keegan

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and... Read more >

Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley with Ron Powers

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $16.95

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 >

American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Written by Jon Meacham

Format: Trade Paperback, 944 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $30.00

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power... Read more >

The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Written by David Grann

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $27.50

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to... Read more >

Boom!
Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Written by Tom Brokaw

Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $28.95

In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more >

Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $23.95

On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using... Read more >

The Steel Wave
A Novel of World War II
Written by Jeff Shaara

Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $29.95

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War.

General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. His primary subordinates, Omar Bradley and Bernard... Read more >

The Rising Tide
A Novel of World War II
Written by Jeff Shaara

Format: Hardcover, 992 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $29.95

A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he embarks upon his most ambitious epic, a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the twentieth century. The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of... Read more >