Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+4389+6643 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644636 This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britains attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629598 The Lone Assassin is a powerfully gripping tale that takes you back to 1939, as you follow Elser from the Munich Beer Hall, across the border, and sadly, to the concentration camp where his heroic life ended.--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1598006 From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet assassin, a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts on Queen Victoria. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1595180 Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between Saint Thomas Becket and Englands greatest medieval king, Henry II, separating truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casting doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends. He also provides the fullest accounting yet for Beckets seemingly radical transformation from worldly bureaucrat to devout man of God. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681481 A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the worlds busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482931 Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1425284 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272210 McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1367538 David McCullough chronicles the lives of American artists and scientists who studied in Paris between 1830 and 1900, and who, ultimately, changed America because of their experiences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426655 Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empresss life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364707 In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha. Initially enamored with the Nazi party and its passion, Martha supported the Third Reich. However, when Hitlers violent policies became apparent, Martha changed her opinion and watched in horror. Here, author Erik Larson offers a chilling first-person account of Germanys transformation under Hitlers rule. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1486646 Tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowess Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1226493 Draws on newly released government documents to trace the three-decade effort to protect Jewish Soviet citizens after World War II, providing coverage of the movements impact on Judaism, the Cold War, and immigration. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1201281 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=761884 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=585649 In The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt unveils the enigmatic Venice as only he can. The story opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a sensational fire destroys the historic Fenice Opera House. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdis operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians, made worse by the revelation that arson might have been the cause. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective - inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable city while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. In the course of his investigations, Berendt encounters a rich cast of characters: a hard-as-nails prosecutor who blushes when hes angered; a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking suicide prompts his friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the First Family of American expatriates facing the loss of their palace on the Grand Canal after four generations of ownership; an organization of party-going, high-society Americans busily raising money to preserve the art and architecture of Venice, while quarreling among themselves, questioning each others motives, and drawing startled Venetians into the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter known locally as an outrageous prankster and provocateur; a twenty-first-generation master glassblower whose sons are locked in a dynastic war; and numerous others - pigeon trappers, scapegoats, hustlers, sleepwalkers, a believer in Martians, the Plant Man, the Rat Man of Treviso, and Henry James.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=407689 In The Balkan Wars, Andre Gerolymatos explores how ancient events engendered nationalist and cultural myths that evolved over time, gaining psychic strength in the collective consciousnesses of the Balkan peoples. In riveting and sometimes graphic detail, this book shows that violence and terror have had plenty of precedence in the region. Gerolymatos introduces us to key figures who have played a hand in the shaping of the cultural and ethnic landscape of the Balkans, beginning with Sultan Murad I, Prince Lazar, and Milos Obolic, the legendary trinity of the Battle of Kosovo that inspired countless generations of Serbian resistance and vengeance. We also meet the nameless individuals who did the real work of rebellion and revolution, such as the Greek klephts, ruthless mountain bandits who became romantic symbols of freedom and patriotism during the 19th century - despite having plundered and terrorized the Balkan countryside for centuries prior to the Greek War of Independence of the 1820s. And in a chilling account of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the 525th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, we learn the inside story of the Archdukes fateful visit and the conspirators who awaited him. Gerolymatos gives the characters in this historical drama a human face, and in doing so brings the events of long ago into the sharp focus of current events. His lively survey of centuries of strife finally provides a long-overdue account of the origins of ethnic hatred and warmongering in this turbulent land.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=443528 It was one of historys strangest and most remarkable love triangles. For twenty-five years, Lady Elizabeth Foster was the intimate friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire; for most of that time, she was also the mistress of the Duke, Georgianas husband. Was Bess, as she was known, the scheming mistress, false friend, and relentless social climber portrayed in previous accounts of her life, including the bestselling Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire? Or was she a devoted and beloved partner to both the Duke and the Duchess? In Elizabeth & Georgiana, noted editor and writer Caroline Chapman contends that Bess was an intelligent woman of deep feeling who coped courageously with a series of personal and political crises. Drawing on hundreds of previously unpublished letters and the 128 journals in which Bess recorded her most private thoughts and observations, this moving biography reveals a complex and perceptive woman who strove to be a true friend to Georgiana, a passionate lover to the Duke, and a dependable ally to both.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=272303 The enchantments of the Tuscan countryside are captured in this memoir of the idyllic bohemian life the author shared with her family in their Italian castle in the years between the two World Wars. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=155960