Susan Williams

"In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomband to make sure nobody saw them doing it,"--Amazon.com.

Reviews the life and work of the American writer whose "Grapes of Wrath" portrayed farmers during the Depression and won him a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize.

"The Greeks were the inventors of history as we understand it. Yet their historiography remained rooted in myth, and the social context of the inventions for which we rightly treasure their achievements - democracy, philosophy, theatre - was often deeply alien to our own way of thinking and acting. The aim of this book is to explore that achievement. Paul Cartledge does so by presenting a fascinating portrait of the Greeks in terms of their own self-image, and explores how the dominant Greeks - adult, male, citizens - sought, with limited success, to define themselves in polar opposition to non-Greeks, women, non-citizens, slaves, and gods."--BOOK JACKET.

One of the outstanding mysteries of the 20th century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjöld and his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. This book follows the author on her journey to uncover a mass of new and hitherto secret documentary and photographic evidence.