Dan Kurzman, Author . Morrow $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-105174-6
On the morning of April 18, 1906, a monster earthquake struck San Francisco, leveling virtually the entire city and sparking a fire that would burn for three days. In this harrowing, exhaustively researched account, Kurzman calls the catastrophe "
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Dan Kurzman, Author . Random $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50877-6
The U.S. Army Transportation Service troopship Dorchester
was torpedoed in the North Atlantic, 100 miles south of Greenland, on the night of February 3, 1943. As a former luxury liner, the ship went down quickly. Of the 900 passengers and crew, 597
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Dan Kurzman, Author . Da Capo $26 (285p) ISBN 978-0-306-81468-6
V
eteran popular historian Kurzman (The Bravest Battle
) relates how a Hitler-Himmler order in 1943 to kidnap the pope and seize Vatican files and treasures was twice delayed and finally undermined by a group of high German officers and officials in
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Dan Kurzman, Author Henry Holt & Company $27.5 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3206-2
In the spring of 1940, British intelligence found that a German-controlled complex of hydroelectric and electrochemical plants in Norway was turning out increasing amounts of deuterium oxide, or heavy water, a key ingredient of nuclear reactions. At
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Dan Kurzman, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $19.95 (546p) ISBN 978-0-07-035683-2
Kurzman (Genesis 1948) recounts the events leading to the decision to drop the first atomic bomb, preparations for delivery over the target, the event itself, and the aftermath as it affected the officials most closely involved. Using delicate...
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Dan Kurzman, Author Atheneum Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-689-12007-7
The cruiser Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945. Most of its crew went down with the ship, but many died during the extraordinary five-day delay in rescue. The ship's captain was one of 316 who survived of a crew of 1196....
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Dan Kurzman, Author Pocket Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74873-9
On November 13, 1942, during the naval battle of Guadalcanal, a Japanese submarine torpedoed the cruiser U.S.S. Juneau , killing most of its 700-plus crew. Some 150 survivors watched in dismay as the rest of the task force sailed over the horizon,...
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Dan Kurzman, Author, Yiyzhak Rabin, Illustrator Da Capo Press $17.95 (749p) ISBN 978-0-306-80473-1
In this dramatic chronicle of the Arab-Israeli war from 1947 to 1949, some 1000 interviews express the human aspects of the conflict with remarkable fidelity. Illustrated. (Apr.)
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