Alan: 6649 books
by Alan Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
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...
by Alan Dean Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
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...
The Quiet Professional
Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces
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...
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
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...
by Rex Alan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
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...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
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
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...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
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...
by Alan McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
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...
The Battlefield and Beyond
Essays on the American Civil War
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...
Suicide of the Empires
The Eastern Front 1914-18
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...
Marathon
The Story of Civilisations on Collision Course
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,...
by Alan Wood, Alan Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
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,...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 3rd Edition
An In-Depth Look at the Dramatic Course of This Conflict
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...