Identity Wars

How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy now examines the relationship between the war's realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy.

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue...

“Both the author and the narrator succeed notably in this funny, trenchant debut novel. William DeMeritt uses all his acting skills plus a strong narrative delivery to portray the wide cast of characters who live in this audiobook.” —AudioFile How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp...

Kurt is an English evacuee with a difference, his father is a Nazi. As Kurt grows into an adult and is forced to pretend he is someone he isn’t for his own protection, can he survive in the hostile world in which he finds himself? And with his enemies closing in, will even the woman he loves believe who he really is? Sent to a small town deep in the English countryside to escape the bombing of London during the Second World War, Kurt should have been safe but a chance discovery will change his life in ways he could never have imagined when the war finds him and challenges both his ...

From the author of NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO, a powerful story of war in our time, love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all. This story might sound familiar at first: it is about a platoon of mostly nineteen-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an...

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...

In June 1940, Paris did not fall with a roar. It fell with a whisper. German troops marched into the city, and life changed overnight. Cafés stayed open, schools held classes, and the streets looked the same—but behind closed doors, everything had shifted. Conversations lowered. Neighbors watched one another. Silence became survival. The Years of Silence is a gripping, human account of France under the Vichy regime—where collaboration, resistance, fear, and quiet heroism lived side by side. Moving from the fall of Paris to the rise of the Resistance, from the persecution of Jews to the...

BRILLIANT, YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS, Annika Tritzchler defies the norms of 1930s Berlin by pursuing medical training in a venue traditionally dominated by men. Facing contempt from her counterparts is minor compared to the massive upheaval in a city transitioning to dictatorship while brutally persecuting its enemies. Annika's career takes a decisive turn when, early in her psychiatric residency, she is expected to participate in applied eugenics- the roguish trend within Nazi medicine. Sterilizing patients deemed racially inferior and euthanizing the handicapped (including patients that she, ...

I thought I was here to pay off my family’s debt… But the Alpha King didn’t bring me to his castle to be a maid. Isla I’m a nobody from a struggling pack, just trying to help my family cover my brother’s medical bills. When I’m sent to the Alpha King’s palace, I expect to scrub floors—not sleep in a luxurious bed. Then I find out the truth: I’ve been sold to be his breeder. King Maddox is cold, cruel, and dangerously powerful. Rumor has it he killed his first wife—and now he needs an heir or he’ll lose his throne. I’ve never even been with a man. How am I supposed to...

A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A lovely blend of righteous polemic and wishful thinking' Julie Burchill 'Thought provoking and entertaining. Andrew Doyle's intellect dazzles' Jimmy Carr 'A magisterial read . . . divinely inspired writing and commentary from one of the most...

A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody...

With war raging in the streets between superheroes and vigilantes, Alex Fry (Beams) strives to not only survive the war, but also end it before the superpowered battles completely demolish his city. In addition, Beams must decide how much longer he will continue to work for his boss and his future in the superhero business in general. But all of that fades into the background when Beam's worst enemy blackmails him. She offers him a simple choice: Kill Rubberman, his boss, in a week, or have his identity made public and his family killed by her minions. Now Beams must find a way to stop this...

Ersula J. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community.

Filled with nonstop suspense and stunning psychological insight, this is the story of Brendan Buchanan, undercover intelligence operative and master of over 200 false identities: a man forced to assume the most elusive and treacherous identity of all - his own. Tracking the most devastating conspiracy he has ever encountered, trapped by his love for two enigmatic, beautiful women, he will race through a sinister labyrinth of intrigue to a shattering rendezvous with fate….

""That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment…"" —Washington Post A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war...

“Today’s England is a moral-social basket case, full of violent crime, outrageous state enforcement of political correctness, and protected Muslim extremists.” — Paul Gottfried First published in 2007, Cultural Revolution, Culture War rapidly became one of the most influential books on the British Right. It introduced the now-familiar analysis of Cultural Leftism, exposed the machinery of New Class domination, and provided conservatives and libertarians with a coherent explanation for England’s accelerating cultural decline. Within weeks of publication, its arguments had reshaped ...

A “gripping and scrupulously reported” (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an award-winning NPR correspondent. “Emily Feng’s...

A Good Morning America Book Club YA Pick! This program features multicast narration. "This is an audiobook one wishes would never end." —AudioFile on The King of Crows (an Earphones Award winner) From New York Times-bestselling author Libba Bray comes an evocative and groundbreaking young...

A sweeping history of power, conquest, and memory — and how an empire that no longer exists still shapes one of the world’s most influential nations. For over three centuries, France ruled vast colonies across Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the battlefields of Algeria and Indochina, the French Empire reshaped global politics and left behind a legacy as complex as it is contested. In The Long Shadow of Empire, historian Julien Peltier traces the rise and fall of France’s colonial project and shows how its ...