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by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Crucial moments from Lincoln’s inauguration to the New York draft riots to Stonewall Jackson’s death—and how they changed the course of US history.
This book not only selects the events that most influenced the causes and outcome of America’s Civil War, but also ranks them in order...
by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An argument settler--and starter--for Civil War buffs who want to know which side had the better soldiers: Armies South, Armies North definitively compares the military forces of both sides.
Civil War buffs are always arguing over which side had the better soldiers. Armies South/Armies North...
Lee Considered
General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed...
The Cradle King
A Life of James VI & I
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest', James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumoured that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed...
by Alan Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a "guy" being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night. This book answers the questions of history that lie behind the celebrations of 5 November. Who was Guy Fawkes and how did he come...
Roman Urban Street Networks
Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the...
Here I Am
The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
“Not only does Huffman bring Tim back to life . . . but he also leads us through some of the most harrowing combat of our generation” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times–bestselling author of Tribe).
Tim Hetherington (1970–2011) was one of the world’s most distinguished and dedicated...
by Alan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
these are the diaries of a scottish rubber planter who joined the volunteers in malayasia and then the indian army as an officer. this book relates his experiences fighting the japanese when they invaded malaysia, then his capture in singapore and incarceration as a prisoner of war, followed by his...
We're with Nobody
Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
We're With Nobody is a thrilling, eye-opening insider’s view of a little-known facet of the political campaign process: the multi-million dollar opposition research industry, or “oppo” as it’s called. For sixteen years authors Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian have been digging up dirt on...
by Alan Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and...
Weird War
Curious Military Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In this thought-provoking and highly entertaining book, noted historian Alan Axelrod (The Real History of World War II) takes readers on a journey through some of the lesser-known aspects of military history. In chapters such as Personality Parade ("Facts about commanders--the good, the bad, and the...
London at War
Relics of the Home Front from the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The two world wars of the twentieth century seem so distant from us now, a lifetime ago, in a different age. Yet in London the evidence of these conflicts is around us, near at hand, in the many relics and reminders that are scattered across the fabric of the modern city. And, as Alan Brooks demonstrates...
Lost Destiny
Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Alan Axelrod's Lost Destiny is a rare exploration of the origin of today's controversial military drones as well as a searing and unforgettable story of heroism, WWII, and the Kennedy dynasty that might have been.
On August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., heir to one of America's...
The Disruptors
50 People Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
“Biography lovers may find this a great start in understanding the long-term impacts that individuals can have on culture, society, and history and be interested in seeking further information about Axelrod's fascinating subjects. —Booklist
Meet 50 women and men who broke the rules . ....