"Intensely thoughtful...honest...intelligent....The book spans half a century and addresses not only (these women's) histories but also their children's, their lovers', their country's, and, in the process, their gender's."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEEight women gather together over the years to piece together an extrarodinary quilt of their own imaginative devising. And as they stitch, we listen to the stories they have to tell of their successes and failures, their lives and loves, their dreams, desires, and the surprise and sometimes joy of living.A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING OUT FALL 1995 -- with Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou, and Rip Torn

Product Description: The Definitive Pictorial Chronicle of World War II charts the greatest event in human history, from the pre-war tensions to the final reckoning; a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 60 million people and defined the political and social landscape of our modern world...read more

Product Description: An award-winning and monumental book with over 500, some in colour, pictures from private Dutch collections and German soldiers during the second World war.

Product Description: World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few...read more

Product Description: "If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then The Second World War in Photographs would be the most compendious war history yet..." (The Daily Mail). As we approach the 70th Anniversary of D-Day and the steady Allied push to victory, it is timely to reflect on the greatest military conflict of all time...read more

Product Description: From the humorous to the poignant, this incredible collection of wartime images reveals ordinary GIs on the frontline. From the deserts of North Africa to Normandy and from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima, every theater of war is covered and each image details the small arms that the average GI carried with him to wage war and win an historic victory...read more

Product Description: A vivid reminder of World War II, this collection attests to the suffering caused by war and the acts of courage that arose from the ashes. Taken from Magnum’s archives, these images—by the greatest photographers of the era—bear witness to the world-changing events of the war, immortalized in moments of daring and honor, and to the devastation it left behind across the conflict zones in Europe, Africa, and Asia...read more

Product Description: World War II: The Unseen Visual History draws on a unique and rich trove of historical images and artifacts of World War II, collected in Caen, France, one of the cities devastated by that pivotal conflict. In the form of a concise historical atlas—replete with full-color maps; rare color photographs; period artwork; timelines; and reproductions of fascinating letters, documents, and historical objects—this beautiful, cutting-edge history offers a completely new overview of the modern era’s most destructive war, with visual material previously unavailable to a U...read more