The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.\nA riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.

The Day the Bubble Burst A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929

Business & Money

Max Morgan-Witts

GORDON, THOMAS

Economics

Arrow Books

Recalls the people who suffered during the Wall Street crash, the factors and the personalities behind the disaster, and the experiences of optimistic individuals whose mood changed to unease and panic

The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929

History

Americas

Penguin??Books

Guernica is an intense human document - told through the experiences of the people who lived through it - set down by two brilliant investigative reporters. "Before Dresden...Before Hiroshima...The bombs of Hitler rained on a peaceful Spanish town. A very moving story." The New York Times

Guernica The Crucible of World War II

Europe

Ballantine

A behind-the-scenes view of the Vatican offers a revealing look at the lives of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II, the attempted assassination, the Vatican's financial dealings, and its undisclosed relationship with Solidarity

Pontiff

Religion & Spirituality

Signet

Day Their World Ended: Mont Pelee Earthquake, 1902

Science & Math

Gordon; Morgan-Witts Max Thomas

Earth Sciences

Panther

A detailed history of the World War II American B-29 Enola Gay , its crew, and the controversial mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force’s call to action, no detail is left untold.Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.

Enola Gay

Asia

Pocket

Pocket_Books

The Day the World Ended

Stein& Day

This is the story of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906: It contains never before published documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away the myths and expose the real villains and heroes The last big earthquake in the United States came at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. No one knows when the next, even more devastating earthquake will come to San Francisco, but one will come. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have written a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of the 1906 earthquake and dramatic prediction—based on expert opinion—of the next one. The authors use never-before-published eyewitness reports and previously ignored documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away the myths surrounding the holocaust. They expose the real villains and heroes, show how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake, reveal that the fire was spread by the inexperie

The San Francisco Earthquake

STEIN AND DAY.

Reconstructs the events culminating in the momentous flight of the B-29 Enola Gay which dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

Military

UNKNO

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