James Bradley Bücher

„Die Flaggen unserer Väter“ ist der packende und anrührende Bericht über jene sechs Soldaten, denen es im Februar 1945 gelang, die amerikanische Flagge auf der schwer umkämpften Pazifikinsel Iwo Jima aufzustellen. Die Fotografie dieses Augenblicks ging um die Welt und gilt noch heute als eines der berühmtesten Zeitdokumente, während die Identität jener Soldaten in Vergessenheit geriet. „Der beste Kriegsbericht, den ich je gelesen habe. Die Geschichte der sechs Männer, die die Flagge auf Iwo Jima aufstellten, erfüllt mich mit Ehrfurcht.“ Stephen Ambrose „Eines der bewegendsten Bücher über den Krieg und seine Folgen, das in seiner schockierenden Direktheit “Saving Private Ryan„ in nichts nachsteht.“ The New York Times

This paperback edition presents a compelling narrative of the Pacific War through the dramatic and unforgettable stories of nine heroic Americans, highlighting their bravery and experiences during this pivotal conflict.

"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --Christian Science Monitor James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants eager to Westernize. The media propagated this mirage, and FDR believed that supporting Chiang Kai-shek would make China America's best friend in Asia. But Chiang was on his way out and when Mao Zedong instead came to power, Americans were shocked, wondering how we had "lost China." From the 1850s to the origins of the Vietnam War, Bradley reveals how American misconceptions about China have distorted our policies and led to the avoidable deaths of millions. The China Mirage dynamically explores the troubled history that still defines U.S.-Chinese relations today.

As humanity faces the urgency of climate crisis, it is hubris versus hope when Kate Larkin joins a secret project to save the world by resurrecting a ghost species, the Neanderthals. But when the child Eve is born, Kate's role as scientist, and mother, forces her to ask what really makes us, and Eve, human?

On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him. In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his daughter Alice, and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea with the intent of forging an agreement to divide up Asia. This clandestine pact lit the fuse that would-decades later-result in a number of devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, and the communist revolution in China. In 2005, James Bradley retraced that epic voyage and discovered the remarkable truth about America's vast imperial past. Full of fascinating characters brought brilliantly to life, The Imperial Cruise will powerfully revise the way we understand U.S. history.

Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, historians offer an alternative history and take a provocative look at the way our world could easily have been. For example, what if William hadn't conquered?

London, 1826: Leaving behind his father's failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's underworld. Ten years later, another man teaches art in the penal colony of New South Wales. But as becomes clear when he falls in love with one of his pupils, no one may escape their past forever. A stark, sinister and compelling gothic thriller.