Journalist and foreign correspondent Nagorski combines published sources and interviews in this history of what he calls the largest, deadliest and most decisive battle of WWII. The often cited Russian winter did not account for the battles outcome, he asserts, nor did German military overstretch. The tide wasnt turned by Hitlers increasingly erratic command decisions either. Moscow, Nagorski argues, was won by the Soviet government,

In this encore to his classic 1987 unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward), Jeffrey Young examines Jobs remarkable resurgence, one of the most amazing business comeback stories in years.

1212. In the streets of Cologne, thousands of children gather. Inspired by preachers and the promise of eternal salvation, they pledge to recapture Jerusalem for Christendom and find the True Cross, the holiest of relics lost to Islam at the Battle of Hattin twenty-five years before. Among the crowd are twelve-year-old Kurt and his older sister Isolda, with others from their Rhineland village, alive with adventure. But what begins a religious quest soon turns into a harrowing nightmare of hardship and danger.