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Comments? Questions? Send us an email! wflbookreport@minlib.net Latest Episode: Episode 5 – Science History with Tyson Guest Librarian: Tyson Bolles Interview Notes: Today we’re going to be speaking with librarian Tyson Bolles about non-fiction history title, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A...

Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac by Stephen W. Sears From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac. The high command of the Army of the Potomac...

 MacArthur’s Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II  by Peter Eisner On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a...

The World Remade: America in World War I by G. J.Meyer An indispensable, sharply drawn account of America’s pivotal-and still controversial-intervention in World War I, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period. In his previous book A...

Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII by Scot Miller This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end...

We March Against England: Operation Sealion and German Air-Sea Actions Against Great Britain, 1940-41 by Robert Forczyk In June, 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe. Great Britain stood alone and the all-conquering German armed forces were poised to cross the English Channel and...

God’s Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath by Malcolm Lambert Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the opposing sides in the holy wars of the Middle Ages and each has been...

The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H. W. Brands From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America’s...

American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a...

Defying the Nazis: the Sharps’ War  by Artemis Joukowsky; with a foreword by Ken Burns. The official companion to the Ken Burns film premiering September 20, 2016, on PBS tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment...

The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile , an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World...

MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific by Walter R. Borneman In predawn darkness the black telephone rang loudly. The general’s wife lifted the receiver from its cradle on the nightstand in the Manila Hotel penthouse suite’s master bedroom and hesitantly answered...

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea and Mayflower comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution,...

1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War by Marc Wortman In 1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War , historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the interesting history of America’s clandestine involvement in...

The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by  Paul Strathern This book is not a boring list of names and dates but instead a dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe,...

Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division by Jimmy Blackmon Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set...

The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel’s Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism by Samuel M. Katz The story of how Israel fought back with an elite force of undercover operatives. The untold story of the Ya’mas, Israel’s special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds...

This is a continuation of an earlier post Great History Books of 2015 (Part 1).   Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo by David Crane Went the Day Well? offers a highly original view of Waterloo, grand in scope but meticulous in detail. What...