Archive for Items Categorized 'History', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
The American Motorcycle Girls
by Cristine Sommer Simmons
Few things are more satisfying to the serious reader than to come across a book that boldly goes where none has gone before. Well and insightfully written, fantastically illustrated, designed with period touches—and not to forget, a really decent price!
Once In a Great City, A Detroit Story
by David Maraniss
Greatness comes before the fall, and Detroit was once great. You’ll wish you’d had the chance to experience it yourself but until it becomes great again, this book will have to suffice.
Legendary Corvettes: ’Vettes Made Famous on Track and Screen
by Randy Leffingwell
Only a handful of GM model names have lived longer—the Suburban (1935) and De Ville (1949) come to mind. The Corvette crossed the million-car threshold way back in 1993 and, with few exceptions, each new iteration adds to the luster of the name.
The Winds of December, Cuba: 1958
by John Dorschner & Roberto Fabricio
Why steer you towards a 35-year-old book? Because Cuba is moving into our consciousness again and this book was then and still is an essential guide to understanding the US–Cuba situation. Also, the same traits that brought Castro to the fore are surely the reason he stayed in power for so long.
Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War
by Elisabeth Shipton
Why did men not want women in the military? Because it would have given them the right to vote! Perish the thought. But when nations were in danger of perishing, society changed its mind. For a while.
Afghanistan Revealed: Beyond the Headlines
by Caroline Richards & Jules Stewart
Before 9/11 there was 9/9, a day on which an Afghan resistance leader was assassinated. Everyone talks about the one but almost no one about the other, yet the two are inextricably linked.
Anton Romako: Admiral Tegetthoff in the Naval Battle of Lissa
Agnes Husslein-Arco (editor)
Take one look a the cover, consider the time—1880s—and you know there’s a story here. Why was it painted in this modern style, what is it even about, and why did Emperor Franz Josef buy it?
The Bombing of Rolls-Royce at Derby in Two World Wars
by Kirk, Felix & Bartnik
Industrial sites are a prime bombing target, so much so that the British set up “shadow” factories to fool the enemy. But the actual R-R works took their share of hits, and here’s their story.
Autowork
by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth (Editors)
What’s life like on the “inside” for the men and women who make cars in the US? From the early days up to the 1980s, these essays paint a not so rosy picture of the conditions at work and, by extension, at home.
The Automobile: A Century of Progress
by James K. Wagner (Coordinator)
Unlike a chronology, this book is written the way a car is engineered: as an overall “system” in which any one part relates to the other.
The 1924 Coolidge-Dawes Lincoln Tour
by Larry Krug
Eyewitness accounts from an epic US presidential campaign that covered thousands of miles by road, involved over 100,000 vehicles, and reached millions of people—in 1924, when passable roads where still a novelty.
Detroit, An American Autopsy
by Charlie LeDuff
Unless you live under a rock you know this storied US city is suffering. Will your city be next? Not if enough people read this book!
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