Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse

6 best books like Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse (James L. Swanson): In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington, I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Author	Erik Larson
ISBN	0307408841

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced...

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Author

Tony Horwitz

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again...

The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

Author	Brad Meltzer
ISBN	1250130336

In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along...

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

Author	Charles Brandt
ISBN	1586420895

The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that...

In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

Author	Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN	0525426760

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.

Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

Author	David Roberts
ISBN	0393347788

“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp....