Marco Polo, Howard (AFT) Mittelmark, William Marsden, Milton Rugoff - The Travels Of Marco Polo

This brilliant volume vividly brings to life the mysterious East in the Middle Ages by chronicling the author's journey from Venice to Asia, during which he met people from a wide range of cultures, ...

The Iliad

This " plain English " translation of the epic poem recounts the triumphs and defeats of the Greek and Trojan heroes during the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy by combined Greek armies. ...

Carrie Young - The Wedding Dress: Stories from the Dakota Plains

Harry Mazer - A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

While fishing on a rowboat, Adam Pelko sees Japanese fighter planes racing across the sky and dropping bombs on the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor, and when he gets back to shore, he sees that his ...

Elie Wiesel - Night

First published in 1958, this raw, devastatingly haunting Holocaust memoir is Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel's best known work. After the German army invades, they first confine the Jewish ...

Howard Bahr - The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War

In a tale of Civil War carnage, Bushrod Carter and his battle-weary mates encounter fresh Union troops outside Franklin, Tenn. one fine November afternoon.

W. E. B. Griffin - The Shooters

Remaining in Argentina to tie up loose ends pertaining to the UN food-for-oil scandal, Delta Force officer Charley Castillo learns about the disappearance of a key DEA agent who has become a casualty ...

Jeff Shaara - The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II

As the forces of Nazi Germany overrun the nations of Europe and America is drawn into the war by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American troops and their British allies launch a desperate ...

Walter Dean Myers - Fallen Angels With Connections

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

Allan W. Eckert - Twilight of Empire