HISTORY
AARP (dist. by Sterling)
My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (May, $29.95) by Juan Williams gathers eyewitness accounts from people who played an active role in the Civil Rights movement over the past 50 years.
AMISTAD
One Man's Castle (Apr., $24.95) by Phyllis Vine. In 1920s Detroit, Clarence Darrow defended a young black doctor who tried to integrate a white neighborhood. 40,000 first printing.
ANTIQUE COLLECTORS' CLUB
The Slave Route: From Africa to America (Mar., $30) by Harry Holcroft visits more than 20 countries to retrace the paths of ancient slave routes.
ARCADE
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (May, $27.95) by Melvyn Bragg traces where English began and evolved into the tongue of two billion people worldwide.
BALLANTINE
The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Hieroglyphs (Mar., $24.95) by Daniel Myerson recounts the race to break the code of the Rosetta Stone. Advertising. Author publicity.
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew (June, $24.95) by Brian Hicks recounts the tale of the passengerless ship found sailing in the Atlantic in 1872. Advertising. Author publicity.
BASIC BOOKS
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon (Apr., $25) by Robert Whitaker is an adventure and love story set in the Amazon jungle. 60,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
BEACON PRESS
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (May, $24) by Marcus Rediker reveals a culture that is surprisingly democratic, egalitarian and multi-ethnic. Advertising. Author tour.
BEAR & COMPANY
The Terracotta Warriors: The Secret Codes of the Emperor's Army (Mar., $25) by Maurice Cotterell decodes the message of the first emperor of China concealed more than 2,000 years ago in the 8,000 warrior statues that guard his tomb.
BOYDELL & BREWER
The Black Death 1346—1353: The Complete History (June, $50) by Ole J. Benedictow includes new information on the disease, its origin, spread, mortality and impact on history.
BRASSEY'S
Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler (May, $27.95) by Mark E. Kalmansohn tells of Lucian Kozminski, a death camp survivor and alleged SS collaborator who schemed to steal money set aside for Holocaust survivors.
Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House: Psychologists Assess the Presidents (May, $34.95) by Steven J. Rubenzer and Thomas R. Faschingbauer ranks U.S. presidents on factors such as intelligence, character and agreeableness.
BROADWAY BOOKS
Brothers in Arms (May, $24.95) by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton reveals the exploits of the men who fought in the first all-black armored unit under General Patton in WWII.
BULFINCH
Voices of Valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944 (May, $35) by Douglas Brinkley and Ronald Drez is an interactive multimedia book with two audio CDs of firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion. 100,000 first printing. Advertising. History and Military Book Club main selections; BOMC alternate.
BUNKER HILL PUBLISHING
The Eyes of the Nation (Apr., $29.95) by Vincent Virga and Alan Brinkley. Maps, prints, photos, posters, manuscripts and other treasures from the Special Collection of the Library of Congress provide a pictorial history of the U.S.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS
American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (Apr., $35) by John Lamberton Harper focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as a foreign policy adviser and aspiring military leader. Ad/promo.
A Population History of the United States (Apr.; $65, paper $22) by Herbert Klein begins with humans in the Western Hemisphere. Ad/promo.
CARROLL & GRAF
In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe—A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust (June, $24) by Yehuda Koren and Eliat Negev is the story of the Ovitz family, the Lilliput performing troupe of seven dwarf members.
CHECKMARK BOOKS
Historical Atlas of Ancient Mesopotamia (Apr., $35) by Norman Bancroft Hunt focuses on the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, now including Iraq, northeastern Syria and part of southeastern Turkey.
CITADEL PRESS
Pride of the Sea: Courage, Disaster, and a Fight for Survival (Apr., $23.95) by Tom Waldron recounts the May 1986 sinking of a historically accurate clipper ship, which left eight people drifting in a life raft.
Rum: A History of the Drink That Conquered the World (June, $21.95) by Charles A. Coulombe traces the drink's history from the mid—17th century to the present.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ (Apr., $27.50) by Michael Janeway traces the power behind the New Deal and its aftermath.
COUNTERPOINT
In the Country of Temple Caves: From St. Emillion to Paris's St. Sulpice, Notes on Art and the Human Spirit (Apr., $26) by Frederick W. Turner is a natural and literary history of France's temple caves. Advertising.
DEVORA PUBLISHING
The Cantonists: The Jewish Children's Army of the Tsar (Mar., $21.95) by Larry Domnitch tells of Jewish children conscripted into the army of Czar Nicholas I of Russia, whose goal was to convert them to Christianity.
Running the Gauntlet of Anti-Semitism: From Polish Counter-Intelligence to the German-American Marshall Center (Mar., $24.95) by Michael Moshe Checinski. When asked to join the Marshall Center, a U.S. Army think tank in Germany, the author discovers that anti-Semitism has infected this bastion of democracy.
DOUBLEDAY
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (Mar., $27.50) by Russell Shorto presents new information on the early settlement of Manhattan and reveals the crucial role of the Dutch in making this nation what it is today. Ad/promo.
Montecassino: The Hardest Fought Battle of WWII (May, $27.50) by Matthew Parker describes the battle of the southern front against the Nazis.
DOWNEAST BOOKS
Working Tugs and Their Crews: Stories of Life Aboard (June, $18.95) by Virginia Thorndike gathers histories and photos of tugboats and the people who work aboard them.
ECCO
Bobby Fischer Goes to War (Mar., $24.95) by David Edmonds and John Eidinow is an account of the 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the American challenger, Bobby Fischer. 60,000 first printing. BOMC, History and QPB alternates.
ENIGMA BOOKS
Mortal Crimes—The Greatest Theft in History: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project (June, $27) by Nigel West. A former MI6 officer analyzes the Venona decrypts and reaches unsettling conclusions.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (May, $24) by John Brewer is an account of the relationship between a famous aristocrat and his pretty mistress, and the young clergyman who murdered her.
A Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II (May, $35) by Douglas Porch emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the Allied victory in Europe during WWII.
FSG/HILL & WANG
Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (Mar., $23) by David Quigley provides a new assessment of New York City's place in our nation's political history.
William Clark and the Shaping of the West (May, $25) by Landon Y. Jones details the life of Clark, the man who oversaw the work of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
FIREFLY
Bark Canoes: The Art and Obsession of Tappan Adney (May, $35) by John Jennings. Artist, writer, ethnographer and historian Adney documented the languages of vanishing native cultures and left a legacy of 100 birch bark canoe models.
FORGE
The Forgotten Heroes (May, $24.95) by Brian Herbert is the story of the U.S. merchant marines. Advertising. Radio satellite tour.
Americans at Normandy (June, $26.95) by John McManus commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasions. Advertising. Radio satellite tour.
FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS
The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness (Mar., $24) by Mike Jay recalls a story of conspiracy, paranoia and revolution in 18th-century London and asks if Tilly was a spy, a double agent or a madman.
FREE PRESS
Hitler and the Vatican: Inside the Secret Archives That Reveal the Complete Story of the Nazis and the Church (Mar., $27) by Peter Godman casts a disturbing new light on the relationship between the Church and the Nazis. Advertising. Author publicity.
Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America (May, $27.50) by Steven M. Gillon follows the lives of six baby boomers to define how one generation changed history in unusual ways. Author publicity.
The Last Knight: John of Gaunt and the End of the Middle Ages (June, $25) by Norman F. Cantor looks at the birth of the modern era as epitomized by the life and times of John of Gaunt, 14th-century ancestor of the Lancasters and Yorks. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
GALLAUDET UNIV. PRESS
From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South (June, $49.95) by Hannah Joyner documents the history of young wealthy Southern men who, barred from high society because they were deaf, formed their own culture.
GROVE PRESS
Vanilla: Travels in Search of America's Most Popular Flavor (June, $22) by Tim Ecott tells how this exotic and sensual plant transformed history.
HARPERCOLLINS
Freedom Just Around the Corner (Apr., $34.95) by Walter A. McDougall. A Pulitzer Prize—winning historian re-examines the history of the U.S. based on a global interpretation. 50,000 first printing.
The Birth of the Chess Queen (May, $24.95) by Marilyn Yalom shows how a noted female chess player reflected the changing role of women in society and politics during the Middle Ages. 50,000 first printing.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Mar., $18.95) by John Lewis Gaddis looks at surprise attacks on America in light of 9/11 and how the U.S. has assumed more responsibility for global security.
HIDDEN SPRING
The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam (May, $26) by Jennifer Heath highlights more than 30 Muslim women from the birth of Islam through the 19th century.
ISI BOOKS
Russia in Collapse (July, $25) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The exiled Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate reflects on his homeland's politics, history, society and culture.
LAWRENCE HILL BOOKS (dist. by IPG)
Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Transformed Their Families (May, $24.95) by John Blake profiles the adult children of noted figures of the Civil Rights movement.
HIPPOCRENE BOOKS
Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code (Mar., $22.50) by Wladyslaw Kozaczuk and Jerzy Straszak offers a history of the Polish solution to the German cipher and its use by French and British intelligence.
HOLMES & MEIER
Remembering Jewish Amsterdam (July, $30) by Philo Bregstein and Salvador Bloemgarten gathers interviews with 77 Holocaust survivors about their lives before the war.
HOLT/METROPOLITAN
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Apr., $26) by Susan Jacoby revisits our secularist heritage, which gave Americans a government not founded on religious authority. Advertising. Author publicity.
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body-Snatching in 1830s London (May, $26) by Sarah Wise tells of the murder of orphans whose bodies were sold to medical colleges by "resurrection men."
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year (Mar., $29.95) by A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy C. Moote gives a new account of the Great Plague of 1665 as told through the documents of nine people who witnessed the events.
KNOPF
The Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876 (Mar., $26) by William H. Rehnquist. The Chief Justice sheds light on the contested election, not resolved for five months, when Rutherford B. Hayes was named president.
Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? (Apr., $26.95) by David Fromkin recreates a crucial moment in 20th-century history. 50,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Aug., $25.95) by Jack Turner is a history of the spice trade and the appetites that fueled it.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Mar., $35), edited by Olivier Zunz, trans. by Arthur Goldhammer. This new translation revisits American politics and society. $20,000 ad/promo.
LITTLE, BROWN
Ten Days to D-Day (May, $26.95) by David Stafford draws on previously unpublished diaries and letters by ordinary men and women. Ad/promo.
LYONS PRESS
Chasing the Dragon (June, $22.95) by Roy Rowan. A journalist presents a firsthand account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution.
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS
Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City (Apr., $24.95) by Ashley Shelby remembers the 1997 Red River flood and its effect on Grand Forks, N.D.; a Borealis book. Author tour.
MODERN LIBRARY
The Age of Napoleon (May, $21.95) by Alistair Horne chronicles Napoleon's life, world and legacy. Advertising.
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (May, $21.95) by Edward J. Larson. A historian charts evolution's theoretical antecedents in the 19th century to the discovery of the double helix and the modern synthesis.
MORROW
Founding Mothers (Apr., $22.95) by Cokie Roberts is a history of the women who contributed to the development of our nation. 150,000 first printing.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Unearthing the Masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (May, $35) by Zahi Hawass displays rarely seen art and antiquities along with stories of their discovery. 25,000 first printing.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin (May, $40), trans. and edited by Douglas Smith. Letters offer a glimpse into the imperial romance.
NORTHWESTERN UNIV. PRESS
America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office (July, $39.95), edited by Norman Gross, offers a perspective on the American presidency.
W.W. NORTON
All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brownv.Board of Education (Apr., $25.95) by Charles J. Ogletree Jr. A Harvard Law School professor and leading civil rights authority examines the personal ramifications of the Brown v. Board of Education decision for him and his family. 7-city author tour.
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England (May, $34.95) by Judith Flanders takes readers through daily Victorian life, room by room.
Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation (June, $22.95) by Alan Gurney tells the history of the search to perfect the essential navigational device.
OVERLOOK PRESS
Alexander the Great (June, $28.95) by Paul Cartledge. An expert in Greek history recalls the life of the great military leader.
OXFORD UNIV. PRESS
From Babel to Dragomans (Apr., $28) by Bernard Lewis gathers four decades of lectures and writings on the Middle East.
Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers and Thieves (Apr., $26) by Lawrence Block surveys the underside of American history through 50 of its most infamous characters.
Polio (May, $30) by David Oshinsky combines a scientific suspense story with a social and cultural history.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Ireland in the 20th Century (Mar., $35) by Tim Pat Coogan is a history of Ireland's tumultuous century.
The British Museum Timeline of the Ancient World (May, $22.95) by Katharine Wiltshire offers full-color foldouts.
Death on the Fourth of July: A Hate Crime, a Killing, and a Trial in Small-Town America (July, $26.95) by David A. Neiwert. Weaving a story of murder in Ocean Shores, Wash., in 2000, the author explores the nature of hate crimes.
PELICAN
Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery (Mar., $24.95) by Michael Busby looks to explain a series of airship sightings five years before the Wright brothers' first flight.
PENGUIN
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933—1934 (July, $27.95) by Bryan Burrough. J. Edgar Hoover uses a wave of violent crime to create the FBI, which becomes his personal kingdom. Advertising. Author tour.
PENN STATE UNIV. PRESS
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume I: The Commissar, 1919—1945 (July, $55), edited by Sergei Khrushchev, trans. by George Shriver, is the first of three-volumes.
PERIPLUS EDITIONS
Early Mapping of the Pacific (Apr., $50) by Thomas Suarez traces the exploration and charting of the Pacific with never-before-seen maps and illustrations.
PINEAPPLE PRESS
Hunted like a Wolf: The Story of the Seminole War (Mar., $16.95) by Milton Meltzer studies the events, players and political motives leading to the Seminole War and the near extermination of a people.
PRC PUBLISHING (dist. by Sterling)
Samurai: The Story of Japan's Great Warriors (May, $24.95) by Stephen Turnbull reveals the mysterious Japanese warrior class.
PROMETHEUS
Who Killed King Tut?: Using Modern-Day Forensics to Solve a 3,400-Year-Old Mystery (Apr., $25) by Michael R. King and Gregory M. Cooper with Don DeNevi. Two forensics specialists apply modern crime-solving techniques to solve the mystery.
PUBLICAFFAIRS
Booknotes: On American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History (Mar., $29.95) by Brian Lamb examines our nation, its people and their character.
RANDOM HOUSE
The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square (Mar., $25.95) by James Traub is a social history of New York City's Times Square.
Shadow Divers: How Two Americans Discovered Hitler's Lost Sub and Solved One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (July, $26.95) by Robert Kurson. A sunken German U-boat is discovered off the coast of New Jersey in 1991. Ad/promo. First serial to Esquire. Author tour.
REGNERY
War Stories: Heroism in the Pacific (Aug., $29.95) by Oliver North includes firsthand accounts from soldiers who saw action in WWII. 80,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.
ROBERTS RINEHART
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in America (July, $27.95) by Wayne Bethard. This survey of America's medicinal past includes a list of common drugs, dates they were in use, doses and idiosyncrasies.
ROUTLEDGE
Chewing Gum: An Unofficial History (Mar., $TBA) by Michael Redclift reveals how an unknown Mexican treat became a multibillion-dollar industry. Advertising.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War (Apr., $39.95), edited by Fred Anderson, unveils a rare 1786 autobiographical account of Washington's service in the French and Indian War.
ST. MARTIN'S
1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era (Apr., $29.95) by Christopher Lee documents the events of a single year in British history.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
The State Boys Rebellion (May, $25) by Michael D'Antonio. In the early 20th century, U.S. health officials singled out "feebleminded" children who were then denied an education and considered eligible for lobotomy, shock therapy and drugs. Advertising. Author publicity.
S&S/TOUCHSTONE
1215: The Year of Magna Carta (June, $24) by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham documents life at the time of the signing of the Magna Carta.
SMITHSONIAN BOOKS
No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy (Apr., $24.95) by Walter Ford with Terry Golway offers an account of a WWII hero and his son's life-changing discovery.
SOURCEBOOKS
George Washington's War (May, $26.95) by Bruce Chadwick shows how the young general created a new model of leadership for a fledgling nation. 30,000 first printing.
STACEY INTERNATIONAL (dist. by Interlink)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Apr., $50), edited by Andrew Mead. This reference on the world's largest petroleum exporter and fountainhead of Islam covers the history, culture, religion, economy, government and likely future development.
STACKPOLE
Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944 (Mar., $26.95) by Joseph Balkoski includes detailed maps, first-person accounts and lists of all Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross recipients.
SUNSTONE PRESS
Silent Voices: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun (July, $28.95) by Everett M. Rogers and Nancy R. Bartlit tells of the New Mexico National Guard, the first U.S. military unit to fight the Japanese.
TEMPUS PUBLISHING (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
The Cable: The Wire that Changed the World (Mar., $22.95) by Gillian Cookson chronicles the laying of the first transatlantic cable.
TEXAS A&M UNIV. PRESS
The Texas Indians (Mar., $29.95) by David La Vere offers a complete history of Native Americans in Texas from 12,000 years ago to the present.
The Philosophy of Shipbuilding: Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Wooden Ships (June, $75), edited by Frederick M. Hocker and Cheryl A. Ward. Experts in the field explore all aspects of shipbuilding.
THAMES & HUDSON
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign (Apr., $34.95) by Charles Messenger presents an hour-by-hour recreation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath.
The Moundbuilders (Apr., $39.95) by George R. Milner is a comprehensive survey of the pre-Columbian Indian societies of eastern North America. History, BOMC, Discovery and One Spirit Book Club selections.
UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America (Mar., $34.95) by Frye Gaillard interweaves civil rights stories of ordinary people with those by familiar movement icons. Author tour.
UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story (June, $34.95) by Eric Jay Dolin describes the centuries-long struggle to clean up one of the nation's most polluted bodies of water.
UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939—March 1942 (Mar., $39.95) by Christopher R. Browning, contributions by Jürgen Matth™us, analyzes how the Nazis' racial policies evolved from persecution to the final solution.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (Mar., $39.95) by Michael Kammen explores artistic expression of the four seasons as interpreted by Henry David Thoreau, Norman Rockwell and others.
UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
Contested Policy: The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960—2001 (Mar., $21.95) by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. studies the origin, evolution and consequences of the federal bilingual education policy.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan (Apr., $29) by Paul Sullivan explores mysterious murders on the Yucatan in 1875.
UNIV. OF UTAH PRESS
End of Watch: Utah's Murdered Police Officers, 1858—2003 (Apr., $34.95) by Robert Kirby looks into the 56 police officers murdered in the line of duty since Utah was first settled.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball (Mar., $27.95) by Bob Kuska views black basketball as a movement organized as a public health and civil rights tool.
Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915—1930 and After (Mar., $24.95) by Merrill D. Peterson explores the American response to the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.
UNIV. PRESS OF COLORADO
Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century (Mar., $31.95) by Nicholas Patler studies the historic protest movement during the first two years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
UNIV. PRESS OF FLORIDA
The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict (May, $29.95) by John and Mary Lou Missal covers the events, issues and costs of all three Indian wars fought during the country's first aggressive territorial expansion.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
Inside the Pentagon Papers (May, $29.95) by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter addresses the issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy's demand for truthfully informed citizens.
VIKING
The First World War (Apr., $27.95) by Hew Strachan studies the causes and consequences of the Great War, the global conflict that continues to shape the course of today's world history. 5-city author tour.
Rising '44: The Battle of Warsaw (May, $29.95) by Norman Davies is an account of the 63 days during which thousands of Poles were slaughtered as Soviet troops and Allied forces watched from the sidelines. 5-city author tour.
WALKER
The Amber Room: Uncovering the Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Art Treasure (June, $26) by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark takes a look at the celebrated 400-year-old Amber Room in St. Petersburg and solves the mystery of its disappearance in WWII. Author tour.
WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOKS
Presidential Leadership: Ranking the Best and the Worst in the White House (June, $26), edited by James Taranto and Leonard Leo, evaluates each president. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
WARNER
America on Trial: The Cases That Define Our History (May, $30) by Alan M. Dershowitz reveals how famous trials—the Boston Massacre, the Dred Scott decision and the Chicago Seven among them—have helped shape our nation. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON (dist. by Sterling)
Blood in the Sea: HMS Dunedin and the Enigma Code (May, $19.95) by Stuart Gill looks into the secret world of British code-breaking and pays tribute to the courageous British sailors of WWII.
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (May, $24.95) by Adrian Goldsworthy studies the Roman Empire's greatest generals.
WESTVIEW PRESS
The Battle of Blair Mountain (June, $26) by Robert Shogan recalls the armed uprising among unionized mine workers, mine owners and the federal government in West Virginia in the 1920s. 35,000 first printing. Advertising.
WILEY
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (May, $19.95) by Bob Edwards looks at the creation of broadcast journalism, how it changed the way the news was reported and how the high standards set by Murrow have evolved.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking (Mar., $32) by David Kahn is the biography of American intelligence agent Yardley (1889—1958), whose fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements.
