Matthew Parker, Author . Doubleday $27.50 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-50985-5
In the months before D-Day, the Italian campaign dragged on with huge casualties on both sides. Parker (The Battle of Britain
) details, with the aid of hundreds of survivor interviews and war diaries, the Allied siege of the monastery at Monte...
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Matthew Parker, Author . Doubleday $30 (530p) ISBN 978-0-385-51534-4
Parker (Monte Cassino: The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II
) begins this engrossing narrative of the construction of what Theodore Roosevelt called “one of the great works of the world†well before the 20th century: everyone from Benjamin...
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Matthew Parker. Walker, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1744-3
Tiny Caribbean islands generate outsized wealth, influence, and cruelty in this gripping history of the British West Indies. Historian Parker (Panama Fever) recounts the heyday of the planters of Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands who made...
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Matthew Parker. Gotham, $19.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-592-40662-3
Fresh off earning an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia, Parker has written a memoir detailing a life of drugs, jail, wrongdoing, and literary redemption. Parker’s narrative picks up after he’s let out of jail and returns to civilian life, and
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Matthew Parker, Author, William Dufris, Read by BBC Audiobooks $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60283-356-2
This account of the building of the Panama Canal-an adventure saga, political account and horror story in equal measure-has a workaday sensibility. William Dufris does not boom or simper, and he does little in the way of accents or voices. Instead,...
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Matthew Parker. Pegasus, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-60598-686-9
On the north coast of Jamaica in 1952, Ian Fleming began work from a home he designed next door to Noel Coward’s estate, writing about a suave secret agent named James Bond. In this fascinating exploration of that house, called Goldeneye, Parker...
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Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs, $35 (608p) ISBN 978-1-5417-0382-7
Historian Parker (Panama Fever) offers a panoramic view of the British Empire on September 29, 1923—the day Britain began administering the territories of Palestine and Transjordan and the empire reached its “maximum territorial extent”—in this...
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