On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American co-pilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. Over Pula in what is now Croatia, they were once more hit by German fire. Lamar all but surrendered to death before fortuitously bailing out and being captured. in 2006 Lamar received an email from Croatian archaeologist Luka Bekic who had discovered...

Webber's lyrical memoir of growing up white in East Harlem's public housing projects in the late 1950s and 1960s explores racial identity and community at the height of the civil rights movement.

"Adventure, bravery, and bloodshedin Gaskells own words. The rare clarity of George Lee Gaskells writings provide a glimpse into the life of a Union soldier who fell in love with the Southand stayed. After an adventurous upbringing in which he learned several languages and traveled as far away as Africa, Gaskell enlisted in the Union Army. His letters to his beloved sister, at home in Connecticut, vividly describe not only the brutality of battles...