Chronological Period/1970's
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
$24.99 Add to cartAt the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as “Tiger Force.” The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest so… [more below]
- Author: Sallah, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0316066354
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
$24.99 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent.
In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Ami- Author: Drake, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0316001856
- Language: English
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Baseball 100
“Posnanski offers an eloquent reminder that the great Cincinnati Reds teams–especially the ’75 Reds–deserve a place of prominence in our memory, same as t
- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0061582557
- Language: English
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The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966
$27.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller about West Point’s Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson.
“A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical recon- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 080509122X
- Language: English
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical I… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0802143032
- Language: English
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Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of A Captain’s Duty, the New York Times best-selling account of Captain Phillips, comes the untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entir… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118204
- Language: English
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
$0.00 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller
Editors’ Choice —New York Times Book Review
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein–“one of America’s best political journalists“ (The
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 006289921X
- Language: English
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Fort Apache: New York’s Most Violent Precinct
$15.95 Add to cartOVER THIRTY YEARS AFTER its publication, Fort Apache: New York’s Most Violent Precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence that has griped urban America over the past centu… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: February 23 2009
- ISBN10: 1935278398
- Language: English
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Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
$18.99 Add to cartNow available in paperback, Sybil Exposed is the New York Times bestselling book that offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, Sybil, and on multiple personality disorder itself.
Sybi- Author: Nathan, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1439168288
- Language: English
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The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation
$54.99 Add to cartThe technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft’s computer was required to be
- Series: Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration
- Author: O’Brien, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1441908765
- Language: English
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Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection
$32.25 Add to cartIn his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows (“the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations”– Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of
- Series: Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
- Author: Hughes, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813939356
- Language: English
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The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions
$16.99 Add to cart“A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else c
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0062375121
- Language: English
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Shen, Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293364
- Language: English
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
$18.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried
“One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.”
—Minneapolis Star and- Author: O’Brien, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0767904435
- Language: English
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John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster: The True Story of the Lawyer Who Defended One of the Most Evil Serial Killers in History
$17.99 Add to cart“A riveting account of what it was like to defend one of the most notorious serial killers in history”–Seattle Post Intelligencer
“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now beco- Author: Amirante, Sam L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1632203634
- Language: English
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The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles
$21.99 Add to cart“A deeply disturbing book–cool, ironical, and ferocious.” –Thomas Flanagan, author of The Year of the French
For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was held hostage by fear as the body- Author: O’Brien, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1504047885
- Language: English
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
$21.99 Add to cart“One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn’t merely a book about baseball. It’s a book about heart.” — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1401312667
- Language: English
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Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
$22.95 Add to cartThe inside story of the shocking Piper kidnapping: from the abduction and recovery, through the grueling investigation and trials, and into the Pipers’ haunted final years.
- Author: Swanson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519930
- Language: English
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Faithfull: An Autobiography
$18.95 Add to cartMarianne Faithfull singer, dope addict and lover of Mick Jagger and other rich and famous people tells us her story, in a frank, revealing autobiography.
- Author: Faithfull, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0815410468
- Language: English
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Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
$25.00 Add to cartA dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. histo
- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470325151
- Language: English
