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The wide-ranging linguistic skills and vast network of European contacts of J.E. and H.W. Kaufmann have given them the ability to produce in Hitler's Blitzkrieg Campaigns a unique compilation of narratives, charts, photographs, diagrams, and maps not previously available in the United States.

Eric and Jane Lawson present a unique treatment of the air actions of World War I as a single grand campaign, with both sides striving for mastery using new technology and new tactics.

Firsthand accounts of the German commanders who planned and executed the largest tank battle in history

"What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924--1966) was to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life was filled with tragedy, including years of electroshock thera"

During the height of the Rolling Stones'success, Bill Wyman kept a diary, recoding the churning chaos of the band's creative evolution, power plays, recording sessions, tours, romances, drug busts, and financial disarray. Stone Alone is a meticulous, shrewd and humorous look at the complex personalities of the Stones and the role they played in the startling cultural revolution of the times.

"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933--1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as"

"Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897--1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was"

"Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912--1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the"

"Often hailed as a stroke of military genius, General William T. Sherman's decision to divide his command and his subsequent, infamous march through the interior of Georgia to the Atlantic coast inaugu"

An analysis of one of America's greatest soldiers which refutes the notion that Grant relied only on brute force to achieve his victories, demonstrating instead the mastery of mobility, surprise, judgement, and strategic co-ordination that made Grant the premier Civil War general.

First part of the two-volume chronicle of the birth, life and death of the Confederacy written by Jefferson Davis. It covers the period from the Missouri Compromise in 1820 to the readmission of the Southern states to the US Congress in the late 1860s.

An anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art

Playground Politics is the first book to look at the neglected middle years of childhood--from kindergarten to junior high--and to help parents understand the enormous emotional challenges these childre

"The United States Marine Corps is America's best-known military unit, and perhaps the most famous in the world. It is the nation's oldest unit, as far as recognition by Congress goes, and has been alm"

The acclaimed, definitive biography of the first jazz composer, based on newly discovered archival material

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

The elegant and unsparingly honest memoir of the romance between jazz titan Charles Mingus and Sue Graham Mingus.

"Besides reexamining in fresh perspective such well-known figures as Paul Revere, Nathan Hale, Benedict Arnold, and John Andre, the author, a former general staff intelligence officer in World War II,"

"Anyone who has ever heard a Billie Holiday record knows the sound of her voice--sad, sexy, always relaxed but securely aware of the beat. Conveying a poignancy that cut to the heart of a song, she rede"

"Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the American musical theatre has thrived in an unprecedented variety of forms and styles as our truest hybrid a"

A fascinating tale of archaeological detective work reveals that some of the most prized relics of Bronze Age Crete are in fact modern forgeries

The only biography of Prince Valerio Borghese-the legendary Italian World War II naval commando whose covert activities shocked the Allies and became a model for today's "special forces"

Liddell Hart considered General Sherman the dominant military genius of the American Civil War. He traces, in this book, all of Sherman's military campaigns - from the first Bull Run debacle to General Joseph Johnston's surrender in 1865.

A comprehensive overview of teenage obesity and what parents and teens can do to overcome weight problems

A hard-hitting look at the problems of-and solutions for-diagnosing and teaching children with learning disabilities.

Never before in paperback: An intimate portrait of the private Callas.

First time in paperback: A leading critic asks the provocative question, Is jazz dying?

"Praised as the "best modern survey of the silent period" ( New Republic ), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the ear"

Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civil War. Not even Lee or Stuart matched his purely military intelligence--his intransigence at Bull R