Product Description: When a mass murder shatters the calm of bucolic Westfield, New Jersey, veteran detective Joe Henderson is unprepared for the fallout when the shooter turns out to be a well-known local guy, a fellow soccer dad, and a friend. For Henderson, the nightmare is just beginning...read more

Detective Joe Henderson is the modern incarnation of Philip Marlowe-hard boiled, hard drinking, hard loving, delightfully cynical, offering wry observations of life in the age of Starbucks. The tale begins in the sweltering summer of 2000 when Preston Swedge, an alcoholic recluse and World War II veteran, has died in Westfield, New Jersey. At his estate sale, retired local police detective Joe Henderson discovers a 1944 diary describing a rogue attempt by a Jewish-American pilot named Paul Rothstein to drop his bombs on Auschwitz's killing complex where nearly 300,000 captives were about to be murdered. Rothstein set out to defy his commanders, who had prohibited any attempt to save Jewish lives. Joe Henderson's curiosity launches him on a crusade for the truth and a shocking revelation when he tracks down the last living witness who can solve the mystery of why the raid never happened.

Product Description: House of Ghosts is a gripping mystery that takes readers through some of the most shrouded history of the twentieth century. In August 1944, Allied forces launched a top-secret aerial assault on the I. G. Farben oil and rubber plant, the flight plan taking bombers directly over the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp five miles away...read more

Product Description: Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the crisis with Iraq continues, Americans have questions. Is war really necessary? What can it accomplish? What broad vision of U.S. foreign policy underlies the determination to remove Saddam Hussein? What were the failures of the last couple of decades that brought us to a showdown with a dictator developing weapons of mass destruction? What is the relationship between war with Iraq and the events of 9-11? The answers to these questions are found in this timely book by two of America's leading foreign policy thinkers...read more

Product Description: In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein. And they see the face of evil: someone who embraced a cruel blend of socialism, fascism, and pan-Arab nationalism when young and later became a coup plotter and a member of the Iraqi equivalent of Hitler’s Brown Shirts...read more

Product Description: At the height of the English Civil War, a time when society seemed to many to be on the brink of a radical transformation, a man named John Warr produced three pamphlets which attempted to articulate what he referred to as the "people's rights"...read more

Product Description: Arising from a dispute among conservative American Protestants in the early 20th century, the term "fundamentalist" has been applied in recent years to a wide range of people - Christian, Jewish and Muslim - who have revolted against what they see as the heresies of the modern world...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the Montreal Conference on Moses Maimonides held in October 1985. This collection of essays, in both English and French, seeks to define Maimonides as a seminal figure in Medieval Judaism. Most of the essays address the topic of the "Idea of Human Perfection in Maimonides"...read more

Briefly traces the life of the seventeenth century British statesman and military leader, and describes his impact on British history