Alan: 6649 books

Book cover of African Brew Ha-Ha: A Motorcycle Quest from Lancashire to Cape Town
by Alan Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010

Tea-drinking is a ritual that binds people together. Alan Whelan was on a unique quest: to find the people at the hidden heart of Africa… and sit down for a nice cup of tea with them. On the 14,000-mile solo journey through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and all the way to Cape Town across deserts and...
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by Alan Dean Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators   Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels...
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The Quiet Professional

Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces

by Alan Hoe
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011

Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. A highly decorated war veteran of the engagements in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows was instrumental in the founding of the U.S. Delta Force and hostage rescue force. Although...
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832

by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s...
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by Rex Alan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies...
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Maximum Velocity

The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales

by David Lee Summers, Carol Hightshoe, Dayton Ward
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.   ...
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American Night

The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

by Alan M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for...
Book cover of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided...
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by Alan McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013

From the white pine of Maine's' northeastern forests, westward to the yellow hibiscus of Hawaii's Polynesian islands, our states's official botanical symbols are as uniquely diverse as the terrain and character of the 50 states themselves. In this reference book over 200 state botanical symbols are...
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The Battlefield and Beyond

Essays on the American Civil War

by Orville Vernon Burton, Paul D. Escott, Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012

In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...
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Suicide of the Empires

The Eastern Front 1914-18

by Alan Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the Western Front soon became bogged down in the mud of Flanders and it is these events that many people associate most strongly with the First World War – but its origins and the strategy which governed all but its closing months lay in the East. In...
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Marathon

The Story of Civilisations on Collision Course

by Alan Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

At Marathon an army of Greek city states, including Sparta and Athens, met the Persian army of Darius. This was the key battle of Western civilisation for Athens were defending not only their independence but their radical new political form, democracy. Alan Lloyd details the course of Athenian democracy,...
Book cover of Stalin and Stalinism
by Alan Wood, Alan Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004

The second edition of a best-selling pamphlet, Stalin and Stalinism has been fully updated to take in new debates and controversies which have emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Considering the ways in which Stalin's legacy still affects attitudes in and towards post-Soviet Russia,...
Book cover of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 3rd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 3rd Edition

An In-Depth Look at the Dramatic Course of This Conflict

by Alan Axelrod PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

A battle - ready guide to the deadliest war in American history. Completely revised for the Sesquicentennial, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Civil War, Third Edition is a comprehensive overview of America's bloodiest war. From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at...
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