The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
10 best books like The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America (Scott Weidensaul): The Rape of Nanking, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, The Map That Changed the World, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I), Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation, To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society, A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
| Author | Iris Chang |
| ISBN | 0140277447 |
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians.
This book tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured...
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0670037605 |
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?
This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying...
| Author | Fred Anderson |
| ISBN | 0375706364 |
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...
The Map That Changed the World
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0060931809 |
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible,...
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
| Author | Hampton Sides |
| ISBN | 0385507771 |
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory
In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting...
| Author | David Hackett Fischer |
| ISBN | 0195069056 |
This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural...
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
| Author | John Ehle |
| ISBN | 0385239548 |
One of the many ironies of U.S. government policy toward Indians in the early 1800s is that it persisted in removing to the West those who had most successfully adapted to European values. As whites encroached on Cherokee land, many Native leaders responded by educating their children, learning English,...
| Author | Arthur Herman |
| ISBN | 0060534257 |
To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great...
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0830822577 |
As a society, we are no less obsessed with the immediate than when Eugene Peterson first wrote this Christian classic. If anything, email and the Internet may have intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same--a long obedience...
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
| Author | James Donovan |
| ISBN | 0316155780 |
In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly...
