The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941

The dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World…

United Nations

With four new chapters, this updated edition of United Nations: A History completes the story of the UN’s last sixty-five years, its successes and turbulent past….

Peace Kills

“Peace Kills is war coverage in the great tradition of Catch 22 and M*A*S*H: Wars can be right or wrong, but they are always crazy and frightening in the center…

Off the Map

“Fleming recounts the dizzying lives and eccentric quirks of 55 of our most fearless explorers.” –Tyler Cabot, Esquire…

The China Dream

“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years and including, naturally, the woes of recent years.” —Peter Wonacott, The Wall Street Journal…

Death by Water

Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe’s new novel is a finely woven masterpiece about a writer who searches for the truth behind his father’s death and discovers a new family legacy…

Bankei Zen

The Crazy Iris and Other Stories from the Atomic Aftermath

“In compiling this anthology I have come to realize anew that the short stories included herein are”a means for stirring our imaginative powers to consider the fundamental conditions of human…

Goodbye Tsugumi

“Yoshimoto’s words are considered, and each of them has the weight of a small, perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool. . . . In Tsugumi the author has…

War Reporting for Cowards

“We find ourselves in good hands throughout the journey. . . . Once in a while his descriptions actually take on a terse Hemingwayesque brilliance. . . . Ayres happened…