Talty, Stephan

Explores how typhus ended Napoleon's quest to rule the world, describing how the microscopic organism destroyed his military forces and their chances of conquering Russia and revealing how the microbe has influenced other aspects of world history.

Examines how Joseph Petrosino hunted down the Black Hand in the early 1900s.

Chronicles the adventures of seventeenth-century privateer Captain Henry Morgan and his crew as they traveled through the Caribbean raiding ports and attacking Spanish ships in the name of England.

Chronicles the mixing of white and African-American culture throughout American history, discussing religion, art, music, sports, and interracial couples, and examining the attraction each group holds for the other.

The story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich during World War II---and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued agent and the Allies best double agent.

In a dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. --from publisher descriptioin.

Documents the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent uprising in Lhasa between Tibetan rebels and Chinese occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist spiritual leader endured.