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Killing Crazy Horse is the latest installment of the
multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through
the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans
and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the
beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the
destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes
in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison
would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans
and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades.
Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through
the fraught history of our country's founding on already occupied
lands, from General Andrew Jackson's brutal battles with the Creek
Nation to President James Monroe's epic "sea to shining sea"
policy, to President Martin Van Buren's cruel enforcement of a
"treaty" that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands
along what would be called the Trail of Tears. O'Reilly and Dugard
take readers behind the legends to reveal never-before-told
historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America.
This fast-paced, wild ride through the American frontier will shock
readers and impart unexpected lessons that reverberate to this day.
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller, now in paperback! Bill
O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of
the global war against terrorists. As the World Trade Center
buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of
passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing
its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The
Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists
who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of
others in America and around the world, and who eventually
destroyed entire nations in their relentless quest for power.
Killing The Killers moves from Afghanistan to Iraq, Iran to Yemen,
Syria, and Libya, and elsewhere, as the United States fought Al
Qaeda, ISIS, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as well as
individually targeting the most notorious leaders of these groups.
With fresh detail and deeply-sourced information, O'Reilly and
Dugard create an unstoppable account of the most important war of
our era. Killing The Killers is the most thrilling and suspenseful
book in the #1 bestselling series of popular history books (over 18
million sold) in the world.
In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered -- Captain James Cook. This is the true story of a legendary man and explorer. Noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard, using James Cook's personal journals, strips away the myths surrounding Cook's life and portrays his tremendous ambition, intellect, and sheer hardheadedness to rise through the ranks of the Royal Navy -- and by his courageous exploits become one of the most enduring figures in naval history. Full or realistic action, lush descriptions of places and events, and fascinating historical characters such as King George III and the soon-to-be-notorious Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man.
Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York
Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales
of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the
New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin
Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in
the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's
most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,
mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s,
O'Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of
the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde,
Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors
highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles
within the "Five Families," the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar
Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood,
as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby
Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. O'Reilly and
Dugard turn these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades
into a read that rivals the most riveting crime novel. With Killing
the Mob, their hit series is primed for its greatest success yet
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers
Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most
popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the
Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable
episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem
Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of
two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange
behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic
possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were
arrested under suspicion of being witches--but as the hysteria
spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found
guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their
lives were ruined. Killing the Witches tells the dramatic history
of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American
ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the
founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the
Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to
the present day, notably in the real-life story behind The Exorcist
and in contemporary "witch hunts" driven by social media. The
result is a compulsively readable book about good, evil, community
panic, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.
In July 2005, over twenty million spectators flocked to France to
see if anyone could beat Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France.
Among them were hundreds of thousands of Americans - men of a
certain age and financial status, mostly - who see the Tour as the
ultimate buddy getaway, a jaunt replete with fine wines, delicious
meals and lazy mornings under the Provencal sun. There were also
huge clumps of Germans, Spaniards, Italians, Dutch - basically
every country in Europe, a mini-UN that packed the fields and small
towns along the way, showing how one can be drunk in 13 different
languages. A unique combination of travelogue, humour and insider
cycling critique (complete with interviews and insights from
Armstrong), CHASING LANCE will be the only book to bring into focus
the entire Tour experience. For those who love Peter Mayle's tales
of Provence, this will be a wonderful book about France. For those
who love John Feinstein, this will be a wonderful book about sport
and for those who love great writing, CHASING LANCE will enthrall
and entertain.
The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more.
Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons
changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the
world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation,
across every culture. And their stories became larger than life -
until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they
most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin
Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of
the most famous people of the 20th century. Each experienced
immense success, then failures that forced them to change; each
faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth;
and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but
vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles.
Dramatic, insightful, and immensely entertaining, Killing the
Legends is the twelfth book in O'Reilly and Dugard's Killing
series: the most popular series of narrative history books in the
world, with more than 18 million copies in print.
The story of Sir Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning
Speke--their friendship, bitter rivalry, and the two thousand year
search for the source of the Nile--is almost too good to be true.
Imagine a story in which two daring adventurers set off to solve
the greatest and oldest of geographical mysteries: the source of
the Nile. Their journey begins with great fanfare. The young
friends travel deep into a forbidding and uncharted wilderness.
Their path is fraught with peril: poisonous snakes, deadly spiders,
man-eating beasts, and cannibals. Their bodies are wracked by
disease. But there is also pleasure, for the explorers are to the
liking of the jungle women.
In the end, the mystery is solved.
But there's a catch. Each man has come up with a different
answer.
They fight. Their friendship shatters. They split up in the heart
of Africa and race back to civilization, each man striving to be
the first to announce his findings to an adoring public. The man
who wins the race is lionized as a national hero, only to have his
claims publicly repudiated when the second explorer straggles home.
The feud becomes an international sensation. A master showman
arrives on the scene, one who decrees that the answer will be
decided with a single public debate. It will be a massive
spectacle, in the manner of a heavyweight prize fight. The answer
will literally change the course of history.
The world is watching and waiting, eager to know the outcome. The
loser will be disgraced. The winner is guaranteed fame and
riches.
But the result is far more dramatic than anyone has a right to
expect.
This, written with thrilling, page-turning, novelistic verve, is
that story.
Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill
O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's "Killing Kennedy" and
"Killing Lincoln," page-turning works of nonfiction that have
changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of "The O'Reilly
Factor" details the events leading up to the murder of the most
influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand
years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was
brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human
beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God.
"Killing Jesus" will take readers inside Jesus's life, recounting
the seismic political and historical events that made his death
inevitable - and changed the world forever.
The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most
dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the
country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of
America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of
increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's
generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfil
Lincoln's dream of healing a divided nation, with the former
Confederates allowed to reintegrate into American society. But one
man and his band of murderous accomplices, perhaps reaching into
the highest ranks of the U.S. government, are not appeased. In the
midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C., John Wilkes
Booth - charismatic ladies' man and impenitent racist - murders
Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues and
Booth immediately becomes the country's most wanted fugitive.
Lafayette C. Baker, a smart but shifty New York detective and
former Union spy, unravels the string of clues leading to Booth,
while federal forces track his accomplices. The thrilling chase
ends in a fiery shootout and a series of court-ordered executions -
including that of the first woman ever executed by the U.S.
government, Mary Surratt. Featuring some of history's most
remarkable figures, vivid detail, and page-turning action, "Killing
Lincoln" is history that reads like a thriller.
For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed
as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American
landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same uniform
and fought together. In "The Training Ground," acclaimed historian
Martin Dugard presents the saga of how, two decades before the
Civil War, a group of West Point graduates--including Robert E.
Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and
William Tecumseh Sherman--fought together as brothers. Drawing on a
range of primary sources and original research, Dugard paints a
gripping narrative of the Mexican War, which eventually almost
doubled the size of the United States. "The Training Ground"
vividly takes us into the thick brush of Palo Alto, where a musket
ball narrowly misses Grant but kills a soldier standing near him;
through the mountains and ravines of Cerro Gordo, as Lee searches
frantically for a secret route into the Mexican army's seemingly
invincible position; to Monterrey, as future enemies Davis and
Grant ride together into battle; down the California coast, where
war-hungry Sherman seeks blood and vengeance. And we are there as
the young troops mount the final heroic--and deadly--assault on
Mexico City. With narrative verve and brilliant research, "The
Training Ground" brings to light a story of brotherhood, sacrifice,
and initiation by fire.
A secret buried for centuries
Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King
Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the
palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy
flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after
only nine years, King Tut suddenly perished, his name purged from
Egyptian history. To this day, his death remains shrouded in
controversy.
The keys to an unsolved mystery
Enchanted by the ruler's tragic story and hoping to unlock the
answers to the 3,000 year-old mystery, Howard Carter made it his
life's mission to uncover the pharaoh's hidden tomb. He began his
search in 1907, but encountered countless setbacks and dead-ends
before he finally, uncovered the long-lost crypt.
The clues point to murder
Now, in "The Murder of King Tut," James Patterson and Martin Dugard
dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, Carter's files, forensic
clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own
account of King Tut's life and death. The result is an exhilarating
true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal that casts fresh
light on the oldest mystery of all.
In 1866 Britain's foremost explorer, Dr David Livingstone, went in
search of the answer to an age-old geographical riddle: where was
the source of the Nile? Livingstone set out with a large team, on a
course that would lead through unmapped, seemingly impenetrable
terrain into areas populated by fearsome man-eating tribes. Within
weeks his expedition began to fall apart - his entourage deserted
him and Livingstone vanished without trace. He would not be heard
from again for two years. While debate raged in England over
whether Livingstone could be found in the unmapped wilderness of
the African interior, James Gordon Bennet, a brash young American
newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalise on the world's
fascination with the missing legend. He commissioned his star
reporter, Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands in Wales!), to
search for Livingstone. Stanley undertook his quest with gusto,
filing reports that captivated readers and dominated the front page
of the New York Herald for months. INTO AFRICA traces the journeys
of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters. Livingstone's
is one of trials and set-backs, that finds him alone and miles from
civilisation. Stanley's is an awakening to the beauty of Africa,
the grandeur of the landscape and the vivid diversity of its
wildlife. It is also a journey that succeeds beyond his wildest
dreams, clinching his place in history with the famous enquiry: 'Dr
Livingstone, I presume?'. In this, the first book to examine the
extraordinary physical challenges, political intrigue and
larger-than-life personalities of this legendary story, Martin
Dugard has opened a fascinating window on the golden age of
exploration that will appeal to everyone's sense of adventure.
Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old
tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of
disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall.
But what if his fate was actually much more sinister?
Now, in THE MURDER OF TUT, James Patterson and Martin Dugard
chronicle their epic quest to find out what happened to the
boy-king. They comb through the evidence--X-rays, Carter's files,
forensic clues--and scavenge for overlooked data to piece together
the details of his life and death. The result is a true crime tale
of intrigue, betrayal, and usurpation that presents a compelling
case that King Tut's death was anything but natural.
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title
Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison
built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded,
nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after
discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by
the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who
sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself. The tall,
freckled explorer with the aquiline nose, whose flaming red hair
long ago turned gray, passes his days in prayer and rumination,
trying to ignore the waterfront gallows that are all too visible
from his cell. And he plots for one great escape, one last voyage
to the ends of the earth, one final chance to prove himself. What
follows is one of history's most epic-and forgotten-adventures.
Columbus himself would later claim that his fourth voyage was his
greatest. It was without doubt his most treacherous. Of the four
ships he led into the unknown, none returned. Columbus would face
the worst storms a European explorer had ever encountered. He would
battle to survive amid mutiny, war, and a shipwreck that left him
stranded on a desert isle for almost a year. On his tail were his
enemies, sent from Europe to track him down. In front of him: the
unknown. Martin Dugard's thrilling account of this final voyage
brings Columbus to life as never before-adventurer, businessman,
father, lover, tyrant, and hero.
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