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Author Andrew Scott Cooper traces Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's life from childhood through the fall of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty. At once intimate and sweeping, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families.

Architect of stunning triumphs and inexplicable defeats, General MacArthur is the most intriguing military leader of the twentieth century. There was never any middle ground with MacArthur. This in-depth study shows how MacArthur's influence spread far beyond the war-torn Pacific.

Adolf Hitler spent 1924 in a prison near Munich. He passed the year working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. Until now, no one has devoted an entire book to the single, dark year of Hitler's incarceration following his attempted coup. Peter Ross Range richly depicts this year that bore to the world a monster.

When the Nazis start closing in on Vienna, Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura is sent to London on the Kindertransport. As she makes a new life for herself, she dreams of reconnecting with the family she was forced to leave behind. The resulting tale delivers a message of the power of music to uplift the human spirit and to grant the individual soul endurance, patience, and peace.

In the first-ever history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military R&D agency, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen paints a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.

In 1921 a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. Eric Bogosian casts fresh light on one of the great crimes of the twentieth century and one of history's most remarkable acts of political retribution.

Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a massive mission to write a book that summed up the human race: what we looked like; what we accomplished in society, government, religion, science and culture.

For more than forty years, the U.S. government, through various military and intelligence agencies, has invested millions in classified programs that study the role of mental telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and other forms of extrasensory perception as a means of intelligence collection for military and defense purposes. Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these programs, using interviews with the core group of individuals who ran these phenomena programs at the highest level of government.

This book recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return. By 1969 nearly half of the junior enlisted men who died in Vietnam were draftees. Their median age was twenty-one--among the non-draftees it was only twenty. The book describes the "baby boomers" growing up in the 1950s, why they went into the military, what they thought of the war, and what it was like to serve in "Nam"--and to come home.

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 BCE, it grew from an unremarkable Italian city-state to the dominant superpower of the Mediterranean world. The Storm before the Storm tells the story of the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic--the story of the first generation that had to cope with the dangerous new political environment made possible by Rome's unrivaled domination over the known world.