History - General & World

This book covers the direct ancestors of the Turbit family back to the first to arrive in Australia. It covers 18 convicts and an aboriginal branch that was never spoken of. Interspersed are interesting items on early Australia.

For Amaury Torres, life in Fidel Castro's communist Cuba is all he's ever known, yet he longs for a bigger and bolder life. Amaury is forced to navigate the unforgiving nature of his mostly-absentee, militaristic father-who fought alongside Fidel Castro himself, the chokehold Castro's Cuba has over his mother, and the growing suspicion that there might be an entire world outside of his reality that he can't quite reach. After a brief stint in the Cuban Army, Amaury is unfairly targeted by

Starting at its headwaters in Franconia Notch, the Merrimack rushes 117 miles to its mouth in Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it also spans 20,000 years of American history. This book brims with colorful characters, crucial events and also points towards ways to return the Merrimack to its once pristine state.

The book chronicles the onset of the Great Patriotic War in Ukraine, from the first battles in June 1941 near Lviv (Lemberg) to the catastrophic encirclement of the Soviet troops in "the Kiev Cauldron" in September 1941. Using declassified Soviet and German documents and maps, it traces the path of the 48th combat engineer battalion.

Who are the greatest villains, the direst leaders and most offensive personalities to have spread their regrettable influence throughout the modern world? Be it through politics, war, sport, culture or just their general idiocy?