20th century

Recounts the history of the Gangster Squad, the eight man unit created by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1946, that launched a war against organized crime and planned to wipe out the notorious mob boss Mickey Cohen.

A biography of CIA chief, James Angleton, and how this hidden chapter of history shaped America's national destiny.

Looks at how baseball manager John McGraw turned his team, the New York Giants, into a World Series winning group of baseball players in 1911.

"The untold story of the time when the New York Yankees were a laughingstock--and how out of that abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty"--OCLC.

Looks at the first one hundred years of the National Football League, discusing players, games, coaches, teams and more.

Presents the true story of how the curators at the Louvre risked their lives to evacuate priceless art and antiquities during World War II.

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall and unlike anything readers have heard before. This historical piece is an epic tale of desperate rivalries, human follies, and an animal-mad city.

Discusses the position of the National Football League quarterback.

Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.