Product Description: “Supreme City captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle, gristle, and glory” (Vanity Fair). In the 1920s midtown Manhattan became the center of New York City, and the cultural and commercial capital of America. This is the story of the people who made it happen...read more

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case] Although most people associate the term D-day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II there were more than one hundred D-days...read more

A comprehensive history of World War II, expanded and updated from the original work by Henry Steele Commager, draws on previously unavailable letters, memoirs, oral histories, and photographs to incorporate new information on the contributions of African Americans and other minorities, the war in the Pacific, the liberation of the death camps, and more. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: [**Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commager] Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published...read more

Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [**Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commager] Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published...read more

Product Description: This is the dramatic story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, this is a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden...read more

Product Description: [This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] This is the dramatic story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, this is a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden...read more

Product Description: Although most people associate the term D-day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II there were more than one hundred D-days...read more

Traces the life of the noted American writer, discusses his major works, and offers a glimpse of his complex personality.

Discusses the plan for Chicago in the twenty-first century that covers all aspects of urban life, including education, suburban sprawl, transporation, and economic segregation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Reprint of a classic. Considered by scholars and history buffs alike to be the best survey history of the rise and fall of the anthracite mining industry in Pennsylvania, this volume chronicles the discovery of anthracite, the building of canals to transport it to market, the era when anthracite was a major stimulus for the building of railroads and the development of the iron industry, the struggles of miners to organize, and the effects that successive waves of immigrants had on northeastern Pennsylvania...read more

A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s

Gathers selections dealing with architecture, city planning, the history of the city, technology and the future.