Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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-- Last crossing of the Lusitania[2015], Crown Publishers Call No: WWI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the last and fatal voyage of the Lusitania, moving between events on the luxury ocean liner as it returned to its home port of Liverpool from New York City to those on the German submarine U-20.
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-- Last crossing of the Lusitania[2016]., B\D\W\Y Broadway Books Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF LAR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the last and fatal voyage of the Lusitania, moving between events on the luxury ocean liner as it returned to its home port of Liverpool from New York City to those on the German submarine U-20.
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-- Last crossing of the Lusitania[2015]., Crown Publishers Call No: WAR NF WORLD WAR I LAR Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to view
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-- Last crossing of the Lusitania[2016]., Broadway Books Call No: 940.45 Lar Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Provides an in-depth examination of the sinking of the "Lusitania," and discusses its role in WWI, specifically how it caused the United States to enter into the war, and the factors that converged to produce the naval disaster. Describes the experiences of passengers, politicians, newspaper reporters, and naval captains.
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By Larson, Erik2004, c2003., Vintage Books Call No: CRIME Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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By Larson, Erik2004, c2003., Vintage Books Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF LAR Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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By Larson, Erikc2003., Crown Publishers Call No: HI-INT B MUD Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the preparations for and attractions of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago including information on the man who ran the World Fair Hotel, a building he used to lure young women to their deaths.
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By Larson, Erik2004., Vintage Books Call No: B Mudgett Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Details the preparations for and attractions of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago including information on the man who ran the World Fair Hotel, a building he used to lure young women to their deaths.
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c2003., Vintage Books Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.
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By Larson, Erikc2011., Crown Call No: WWII NF LAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: William E. Dodd becomes the American ambassador to Germany, where he witnesses first-hand the atrocities of Hitler's regime and watches his daughter fall in love with a Nazi officer.
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By Larson, Erikc2011., Crown Call No: 943.086 LAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: William E. Dodd becomes the American ambassador to Germany, where he witnesses first-hand the atrocities of Hitler's regime and watches his daughter fall in love with a Nazi officer.
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By Larson, Erikc2011., Crown Call No: HI-INT B DOD Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When William Dodd becomes the first American ambassador to Germany in 1933, he moves his wife and flamboyant daughter to Berlin. There they witness Hitler's rise to power and at first are fascinated with the glamorous world of the Nazi elite, until they start witnessing the steadily increasing violence, murder, and censorship of the regime.
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By Larson, Erik[2011]., Crown Call No: WAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: William E. Dodd becomes the American ambassador to Germany, where he witnesses first-hand the atrocities of Hitler's regime and watches his daughter fall in love with a Nazi officer.
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2000., Vintage Books Call No: 976.4 LAR Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of Isaac Cline, a weather scientist in Galveston, Texas in 1900, discussing his belief and assertion that nothing in the way of weather could destroy the coastal city; and looks at how Cline dealt with the aftermath of the hurricane that hit Galveston on September 8, claiming the lives of thousands of people.
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c1999., Crown Publishers Call No: 976.4 139 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of Isaac Cline, a weather scientist in Galveston, Texas in 1900, discussing his belief and assertion that nothing in the way of weather could destroy the coastal city; and looks at how Cline dealt with the aftermath of the hurricane that hit Galveston on September 8, claiming the lives of thousands of people.
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[2020]., Crown Call No: HI-INT 940.54 LAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports-some released only recently-Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents' wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela's illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the cadre of close advisers who comprised Churchill's "Secret Circle," including his lovestruck private secretary, John Colville; newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook; and the Rasputin-like Frederick Lindemann. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when-in the face of unrelenting horror-Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together."--
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By Larson, Erikc2006., Three Rivers Press Call No: WORLD HISTORY Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions.