<p><span class="deck"> What was it like to actually be there in April, 1775?<br />
This is how the participants, American and British, remembered it </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> One summer brought excitement and glory to the young secretary of a political leader. How could he know that the next one would brim with tragedy?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A reminiscent tribute to a great American painter, with an evocative selection from thousands of unpublished sketches</span> </span></p>
<p>One of America's most distinguished publishers writes of his personal and professional friendship with the famed historian, Samuel Eliot Morison.</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Union seaman’s nightmarish memories of shot, shell, and shoal waters in Grant’s Mississippi River campaign, 1862–63</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The life and death of the world’s largest textile mill, in the words of the men and women who worked there</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> During three harrowing years as a prisoner of the Japanese, an American woman secretly kept an extraordinary journal of suffering, hope, ingenuity, and human endurance</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A soldier remembers the freezing, fearful retreat down the Korean Peninsula after the Chinese armies smashed across the border</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The victors divided the Germans into three groups: black (Nazi), white (innocent), and gray—that vast, vast area in between</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A collection of little-known early-twentieth-century photographs of St. Louis recalls the author’s unfashionably happy childhood</span> </span></p>
