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Death of the Senate is a clear-eyed look inside the Senate chamber in an unprecedented, brutally honest account of the current political reality.

A thrilling, true-life detective story about the search for the missing members of the Romanov royal family, murdered by Bolsheviks in 1918, and one family's involvement in the hundred-year-old forensic investigation into their deaths, clandestine burials, and the recovery and authentication of the remains.

This collection of personal essays details adventures, advice, and experiences of generations of CIA analytic, support, and technical officers.

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Told in real time, this is the story of President Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and his military commanders during the first days of the Civil War.

Molyvos chronicles the work of Melinda McRostie and a few friends in Molyvos—on the north coast of the Greek island of Lesvos—as well as Eric and Philippa Kempton at Eftalou as they carried out the only refugee relief effort on the north coast between 2014 and 2015.

In Spymaster’s Prism, the legendary spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our country’s intelligence, covert action, and counterintelligence posture against Russia.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 recounts the inspiring story of the immigrant women who launched a dramatic and effective mass consumer action in turn-of-the-century New York City.

Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II.

Michael G. Waltz offers a unique, firsthand account of the American war effort in Afghanistan as he recounts experiences as both a policy official and a Special Forces officer in the Bush and Obama administrations.

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Katya Cengel covers her time as a recent college graduate reporting from the former Soviet Union in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Riga, Latvia, shortly after the fall of Communism.

The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their remarkable stories together into a single moving narrative—one that reveals a disquieting cycle of violence, safety, and loss.

All Souls Day is the reconstruction of a little-known battle during World War II and the impact it has to this day.

In this journal Boatswain’s Mate James Morrison recounts the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty’s 1787 voyage and the ensuing mutiny, providing an invaluable resource for naval historians and an enthralling tale for the general reader.

Wayne L. White tells the story of his three winters as the winter manager at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the only winter manager in South Pole station history to last that long.

This tactical study of fighting in June of 1863 is placed within the strategic context of a campaign—the result of thirty years of research at repositories across the country and research in unpublished records at the National Archives.

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A woman Marine officer’s story of coming of age.

After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by military forces from the perspective of the combatants. Veterans narrate what Tim O’Brien calls a “true war story”: one without obvious purpose or moral imputation, independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.