Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History

Zarzynski, Joseph W, Benway, Bob. Lake George: Its Sunken History Revealed is an assortment of short tales that focus on the sunken heritage of one of North America's most historic waterways the 32 mile long Lake George in upstate New York. Each of the stories focuses on a shipwreck, a maritime mystery, or an underwater archeological discovery and investigation, and will be accompanied by one or two historic images or modern underwater photos.--Publisher Marketing (Check Catalog)

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

David McCullough. One of Americas most popular historians and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, McCullough (1776) has hit the historical jackpot. Travelers before the telephone era loved to write letters and journals, and McCullough has turned this avalanche of material into an entertaining chronicle of several dozen 19th-century Americans who went to Paris, an immense, supremely civilized city flowing with ideas, the arts, and elegance, where no one spit tobacco juice or defaced public property.--Publisher's Weekly. (Check Catalog)

Last men out : the true story of America's heroic final hours in Vietnam

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. An exciting, focused account of the bitter evacuation by helicopter of the last Marines securing the U.S. embassy compound in Saigon on April 30, 1975. The Americans washed their bloody hands of the Vietnam War with the Paris Peace Accords of January 1973, which stipulated withdrawal from South Vietnam except for a handful of Marine Security Guards (MSGs) and other personnel posted at the embassy and at a defense outpost (DOA) adjacent to the airport in downtown Saigon.--Kirkus (Check Catalog)

The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo. Rapa Nui (aka the Easter Islands) have long been thought to illustrate how human environmental overreach led to collapse, as advanced monument builders undermined the ecology, beginning an inevitable slide. The authors make a counter-argument that "the problems were social, not a result of environmental ruin.--Kirkus (Check Catalog)