Arnold: 1995 books
by Gordon B. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
From the early 1900s onwards, animated cartoons have always had a wide, enthusiastic audience. Not only did viewers delight in seeing drawn images come to life, tell fantastic stories, and depict impossible gags, but animation artists also relished working in a visual art form largely free from the...
Fueling the Gilded Age
Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they...
Guardian Angel
Volume One: the Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Guardian Angel the Book is like an Odyssey; a journey that questions and challenges the ethos of man through the ages; especially in East Africa, irrespective of time, site or circumstance.
The author has consistently refused to veer from this contention; however unpalatable some of the home-truths...
by Arnold Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The smart investors guide to financial privacy, wealth protection and international profiteering.
by Gina Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Although Exile in Guyville was celebrated as one of the year's top records by Spin and the New York Times, it was also, to some, an abomination: a mockery of the Rolling Stones' most revered record and a rare glimpse into the psyche of a shrewd, independent, strong young woman. For these crimes, Liz...
Oklahoma City Music
Deep Deuce and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Oklahoma City�s rich music history traces back to Deep Deuce, the heart of the African American community that became an important resource for national jazz and blues bands seeking talented musicians who were often classically trained. Two icons and many legends are among the famous sons and daughters...
Grétry's Operas and the French Public
From the Old Regime to the Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Why, in the dying days of the Napoleonic Empire, did half of Paris turn out for the funeral of a composer? The death of André Ernest Modeste Grétry in 1813 was one of the sensations of the age, setting off months of tear-stained commemorations, reminiscences and revivals of his work. To understand...
Chickamauga 1863
The river of death
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
By the Autumn of 1863 the Confederacy was in dire straits. In a colossal gamble, Confederate President Jefferson Davis stripped forces from all the major Confederate armies to reinforce the Army of Tennessee in a last ditch attempt to crush the Union. On 19th September the Confederates attacked the...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XV
The Eastern Roman Empire from Isaac I to Andronicus
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
WHILE the Germans impressed their characteristic stamp on both the medieval and modern history of Western Europe, it was reserved for the Eastern Slays, the Russians, to build a great empire on the borderlands of Europe and Asia. But the work of civilization was far more difficult for the Russians...
US Commanders of World War II (1)
Army and USAAF
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
To be a successful commander requires experience, character, tenacity and boldness: the ability to establish a good rapport with both your staff and your men is also vital. The real test comes in combat though, where a large proportion of luck is involved the luck to be in the right place at the right...
Never Broken
My journey from the horrors of Iraq to the birth of my miracle baby
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"I was screaming for my life, buried alive under tonnes of rubble in a sweltering coffin of dust after a mortar attack. If I wanted to get out of this, I just knew I had to scream and scream."
When Corporal Hannah Campbell was hit by a mortar attack in Basra, Iraq, she was engulfed...
by Arnold Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
What is Turkey? It is a name which explains nothing, for no formula can embrace the variety of the countries marked "Ottoman" on the map: the High Yemen, with its monsoons and tropical cultivation; the tilted rim of the Hedjaz, one desert in a desert zone that stretches from the Sahara to...
Shiloh 1862
The death of innocence
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The first major battle in the Western theatre of the American Civil War, Shiloh came as a horrifying shock to both the American public and those in arms. For the first time they had some idea of the terrible price that would be paid for the preservation of the Union. On 6 April 1862 General Albert...
Bedlam
London and its Mad
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake's Progress series, depicts the anti-hero...