History & Military History
ECCO
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct,
and the Rise of Los Angeles by Les Standiford (Mar. 31, hardcover, $28.99, ISBN
978-0-06-225142-8). The author of Last
Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest
public water project ever created, a tale of
Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and
one determined man whose vision shaped
the future and continues to influence the
city today. 50,000-copy announced first
printing.
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
(Apr. 14, hardcover, $40, ISBN 978-0-
374-11825-9). In this 800-plus–page
tome, Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in
1933 through their demise in the spring of
1945.
One of Us: Anders Breivik and the
Massacres in Norway by Åsne Seierstad,
trans. by Sarah Death (Apr. 21, hardcover,
$26, ISBN 978-0-374-27789-5). The
Norwegian journalist and author of The
Bookseller of Kabul offers a thorough account
of the massacre that upended Norway on
July 22, 2011, when Anders Behring
Breivik killed eight people in Oslo, and
proceeded to a youth camp on the island of
Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of
them teenage members of Norway’s governing Labour Party.
GLOBE PEQUOT/LYONS
Lincoln’s Secret Spy: The Civil War
Case That Changed the
Future of Espionage by Jane
Singer and John Stewart (Apr.
1, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN
978-1-4930-0810-0). A
month after Lincoln’s assassi-
nation, William Alvin Lloyd
arrived in Washington, D.C.,
to collect payment for his work
as an undercover spy within
the Confederacy. Lloyd’s claim
convinced Secretary of War
Edwin Stanton, but was it
true? This historical caper examines the
evidence and draws a verdict.
Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million Dollar Cash Haul That Shook
the World by Henry Hill and Daniel
Simone (Mar. 1, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN
978-1-4930-0849-0). The inside story-–
from the organizer himself–of the largest
unrecovered cash haul in history, memorialized in the movie Goodfellas. Hill (played
by Ray Liotta in the film) died in 2012 as
he was finishing this book, which reveals
new details about the crime.
GRAND CENTRAL
17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis,
and the Biggest Cover-Up in History by
Andrew Morton (Mar. 10, hardcover, $28,
ISBN 978-1-4555-2711-3) tells the story
of feckless Edward VIII, duke of Windsor,
and his wife, Wallis Simpson, whose affair
with Joachim von Ribbentrop embroiled
the duke in a German plot to use him as a
puppet king during their takeover of the
British Empire. Although the war ended
with Hitler’s defeat, Edward’s story was far
from over. 75,000-copy announced first
printing.
HARPER
Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a
Team of Women Soldiers on the Special
Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach
Lemmon (Apr. 21, hardcover, $26.99,
ISBN 978-0-06-233381-0). The author
of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana relates
how First Lt. Ashley White and a groundbreaking team of female American warriors served alongside Special Operations
soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
200,000-copy announced
first printing.
Joan of Arc: A History
by Helen Castor (May 19,
hardcover, $27.99, ISBN
978-0-06-238439-3). The
author of the acclaimed
She-Wolves tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl
from Domremy who hears
voices from God, leads the
French army to victory, is
burned at the stake for heresy,
and eventually becomes a saint. 30,000-
copy announced first printing.
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Through the Keyhole: Sex, Scandal
and the Secret Life of the Country
House by Susan C. Law (July 1, hardcover,
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-7509-5669-7). A
deft analysis of sex, power, and the media
in the Regency era describes how the scandalous private lives of the Georgian aristocracy were used to undermine hereditary
power.
HOLT
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the
Japanese American Internment in
World War II by Richard Reeves (Apr. 21,
hardcover, $30, ISBN 978-0-8050-9408-
4) provides an account of the internment of
more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans
and Japanese aliens during WWII.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
HARCOURT
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly
Legacy of India’s Partition by Nisid
Hajari (June 9, hardcover, $28, ISBN 978-
0-547-66921-2). Journalist Hajari
recounts the bloody months during the
summer of 1947 as independence neared
for India and Pakistan and millions of
Muslims and Hindus crossed the new border. The massacres that occurred planted
the roots for the enmity between India and
Pakistan that still exists. From jihadi terrorism to nuclear proliferation, Hajari’s
searing tale explains all too many of the
headlines we read today.
KNOPF
Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a
Partnership by Susan Butler (Mar. 3,
hardcover, $35, ISBN 978-0-307-59485-
3) examines the relationship between the
two leaders and offers insight into the profound bond between them to show just
how FDR methodically and successfully
pushed Stalin to reinstate religion in the
Soviet Union, which he did in 1943.
The Quartet: Orchestrating the
Second American Revolution, 1783–1789
