Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
by Giles Foden | 
Zulu Rising
by Ian Knight | 
Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
by Jeff Pearce | 
Three Empires on the Nile
by Dominic Green | 
13 Hours
by Mitchell Zuckoff | 
Red Platoon
by Clinton Romesha | 
WAR
by Sebastian Junger | 
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz | 
Indianapolis
by Lynn Vincent | 
The Forgotten 500
by Gregory A. Freeman | 
The Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan | 
The Arsenal of Democracy
by A. J. Baime | 
The Civil War
by Shelby Foote | 
Waterloo
by Bernard Cornwell | 
The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang | 
The Last Stand of Fox Company
by Bob Drury | 
Low Level Hell
by Hugh L. Mills Jr. | 
If You Survive
by George Wilson | 
A Bridge Too Far
by Cornelius Ryan | 
The Only Thing Worth Dying For
by Eric Blehm |
When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is water to float a ship--even if the body of water in question is a remote African lake and the enemy an intimidating fleet of German steamers. The leader of this improbable mission is Geoffrey Spicer-Simson whose navy career thus far had been distinguished by two sinkings. His seemingly impossible charge: to trek overland through the African bush hauling Mimi and Toutou--two forty-foot mahogany gunboats-with a band of cantankerous, insubordinate Scotsmen, Irishmen and Englishmen to defeat the Germans on Lake Tanganyika. With its powerfully evoked landscape, cast of hilariously colorful characters and remarkable story of hubris, ingenuity and perseverance, this incredibly bizarre story-inspiration for the classic film The African Queen-is history at its most entertaining and absorbing.