New Releases by Evan Thomas

Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos.

Ésta es la historia de la última gran campaña naval: la guerra del Pacífico, que culminó en 1944 con la batalla del Golfo de Leyte, la mayor de todos los tiempos, en que participaron trescientos buques y cerca de doscientos mil hombres. Una historia que Evan Thomas nos cuenta a través de la experiencia vivida por cuatro hombres: por el lado de los norteamericanos, el almirante Halsey y el comandante Evans, un indio cherokee que condujo a su buque a la destrucción en una carga suicida, y, por el de los japoneses, el almirante Kurita, que optó finalmente por salvar las vidas de sus hombres, y el almirante Ugaki, un samurai que recibió el mando de todos los kamikazes y se convirtió él mismo en el último kamikaze de esta guerra. Thomas, que ha reconstruido esta historia no solo a partir de los documentos, sino también de los testimonios de los supervivientes, ha escrito un libro inolvidable, que conjuga la épica de la guerra en el mar con el dramatismo de las historias personales de sus protagonistas.

Evan Thomas and the "Newsweek" reporting team offer a behind-the-scenes view of the 2004 election, detailing how George Bush won one of the most hotly-contested presidential races in modern times.

Readers brought up on Hollywood westerns will have their eyes opened by this story of a working cowboy. Although he never chased a rustler or rescued a pretty girl and probably couldn''t even hire on as an extra in a B-grade western, Ed Alford (or "Fat") has worked cattle most of his life. Fred Gipson''s vivid, earthy book about this cowhand, now in paperback, tells what the job is really like, the hardships, the hell-raising, and the sheer monotony of daily tasks.Fat Alford became a cowboy because he didn''t think picking cotton was any way for a man to make a living. Although he may not have looked much like a cowboy and certainly started out green, he learned to rope a cow in an impenetrable brush, to break a mean horse, to get by with poor gear, worse food, and sorry mounts in freezing cold or blistering heat and still get the job done.Gipson''s warm and rousing account captures the vivid reality of how it was and introduces us to a remarkable character--a working cowhand. This new paperback edition of Cowhand is sure to delight a whole new generation of readers.

Snapshot of America at a crucial moment of transition.

书名原文:The wise men six friends and the world they made

Records of the Cambrian Society of Victoria collected by the secretary Evan Thomas (1891-1965), including letters, minutes, journals, photographs, certificates and newspapers cuttings.