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  • The War Lovers

    Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

    by Evan Thomas ...
    A riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, told by one of our most acclaimed historians.On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm.A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Global Engineers

    Building a Safe and Equitable World Together

    by Evan Thomas ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    Sea of Thunder

    Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945

    by Evan Thomas ...
    Narrated by George K. Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 35 min

    Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo Kurita, the Japanese battleship commander charged with making what was, in essence, a suicidal ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Ike's Bluff

    President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

    by Evan Thomas ...
    A startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust, by the bestselling author of The War Lovers.Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Battle for Leyte Gulf

    The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle

    by C. Vann Woodward ...
    A New York Times Best Seller!Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf-the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Man to See

    by Evan Thomas ...
    This bestselling biography of legendary trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams is "a skillful and lively portrait of a larger-than-life lawyer" (Kirkus Reviews).Legendary attorney Edward Bennet Williams was arguably the best trial lawyer ever to practice. Now, for the first time, bestselling author Evan Thomas takes us into the courtrooms of Williams's greatest performances as he defends "Godfather" ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Road to Surrender

    Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

    by Evan Thomas ...
    A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Two Books of Homilies

    Appointed to Be Read in Churches

    by Thomas Cranmer ...
    Narrated by Wayne Evans ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    Compiled with the intent to improve the preaching standards in churches at the time and to increase pastoral understanding of Christianity, Homilies is a comprehensive overview of Christian theology, the history and impact of the Reformation, and daily applications of faith and doctrine. The sermons included here dive into the issues and questions of salvation, Christian living, justification by ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Very Best Men

    The Daring Early Years of the CIA

    by Evan Thomas ...
    The Very Best Men is the story of the CIA's early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the personal dramas and sometimes tragic lives of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald, who risked everything to contain the Soviet ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Hour Strikes

    Churchill, Roosevelt, and Hitler at the Hinge of History, 1941

    by Evan Thomas, Oscie Thomas ...
    A riveting, in-the-room account of the pivotal six months in 1941 that turned the tide of World War II, as Churchill and Roosevelt forged a crucial alliance and Hitler squandered his early advantage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Road to SurrenderIn the summer of 1941, Winston Churchill was desperate—for two years, Britain had stood alone against Germany, heavily battered by the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Sea of Thunder

    Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945

    by Evan Thomas ...
    Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japanese sides, through the eyes of commanders and sailors of both navies, Thomas's history adds an important new dimension to our understanding of World War II.Drawing on oral histories, diaries, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Paul Jones

    Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy

    by Evan Thomas ...
    The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy.John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook