The author describes her movements across Europe's scrambled post-war borders, including trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals and a stint in bombed out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist takeover.

Offers a sweeping study of Daniel Boone in terms of his larger-than-life role in the early history of America, detailing his trailblazing journeys into the heart of the American wilderness and his participation in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.

Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean-going vessels of the day. Throughout her 40-year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking of the TITANIC. "One awful moment...

A novel about the life of Marmaduke Van Swearingen, a teenage boy in frontier West Virginia who was captured by the Shawnee Indians in 1771 and went on to become the only white war chief in the Shawnee Nation's history.

Mein Kampf is an autobiography of Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. It contains stories from his childhood, the events and situations that influenced his ideologies, and his prejudices. It explains his visions for German expansion through Europe, the Unification of Germany and Austria, and his assertion of the superiority of the 'Aryan' Race. Hitler began dictating the book to Hess while imprisoned...

Traces the actress's path from beauty queen to budding young film star, detailing her early love affairs, her marriage to Roman Polanski, and her shocking murder by the Charles Manson cult in Los Angeles.

A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, her fabled creation of "the first flag," and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia.

"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history....

The older sister of Martin Luther King, Jr., provides a portrait of her family and childhood and the values, abiding faith, and community involvement that shaped her and her brother's lives and led to a stand against racial prejudice and injustice.

On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of fifty-one. When James Cook was hacked to death by Hawaiian islanders on 14 February 1779, he was already considered the greatest explorer of his age. Born in obscurity but gripped by a boundless passion...