Bill: 4844 books
by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life—an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived.
Bill Mason is arguably the greatest...
The Ultimate Battle
Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told. With the same "grunt's-eye-view" narrative style that distinguished his Brotherhood of Heroes (on the Battle of Peleliu), Bill Sloan presents a gripping and uniquely personal saga of heroism...
by Bill Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Most authors are either workaholics (the successful ones) or terrible procrastinators (the unsuccessful ones). I fall somewhere in between. I always had the desire and some ability to write, but my passion was tempered by a need to support and take care of my family. Family always came first and...
In a Time of War
The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The dramatic story of West Point's class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime
They came to West Point in a time of peace, but soon after the start of their senior year, their lives were transformed by September 11. The following June, when President George W. Bush spoke...
How to Lose WWII
Bad Mistakes of the Good War
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
How to Lose WWII is an engrossing, fact-filled collection from Bill Fawcett that sheds light on the biggest, and dumbest, screw-ups of the Great War. In the vein of his other phenomenal compendiums of amazing battlefield blunders, How to Lose a Battle and How to Lose a War, Fawcett focuses on some amazing catastrophic missteps of Axis and Allies alike.
by Bill Yenne
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
No ancient ruler inspired more legends than Julius Caesar. Under his leadership, Rome conquered territory throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, reaching the North Sea and conducting the first Roman invasion of Great Britain. His tactical acumen and intuitive understanding of how armies work birthed...
How to Lose the Civil War
Military Mistakes of the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
“Fawcett rivals Jim Dunnigan as a general-audience military analyst.”
—Publishers Weekly
An expert on historical military incompetence, Bill Fawcett now offers an engrossing, fact-filled collection that sheds light on the biggest, dumbest screw ups of the America’s bloodiest conflict....
The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
A Portrait in Her Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As her own words prove well, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis could be at times funny, buoyant, candid, irreverent, and of course poignant, too. This collection of quotes shares her thoughts on marriage, family, political life and ambition, publicity, privacy, and more as she confided them to intimate friends,...
America's Fiscal Constitution
Its Triumph and Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
What would Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Truman, and Eisenhower have done about today's federal debt crisis?
America's Fiscal Constitution tells the remarkable story of fiscal heroes who imposed clear limits on the use of federal debt, limits that for two centuries...
Abandon Ship!
A Survivor's Story: Attack on Pearl Harbor, Sinking of the USS Helena, and my life during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Abandon Ship is a fascinating account of enlisted life onboard U.S. naval warships in the Pacific Theater during WW2. Bill Jim Davis, the author, provides a riveting account of what it was like for him as a young seaman during those hazardous times. Amazingly, his individual experiences took him from...
by Bill Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Osceola, the great Seminole War leader, was captured on Old Kings Road in Florida in 1835. He was meeting under a white flag of truce. His capture under a white flag was debated in Congress, the Court of England and capitols throughout the world. This well researched historical fiction account reveals...
Fighting Fox Company
The Battling Flank of the Band of Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history, thanks to Stephen Ambrose’s superb book Band of Brothers, followed by portrayals in film. However, to date little has been heard of Fox Company of that...
The Original Wild Ones: Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club
Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Get an inside look at the real beginning of outlaw biker culture with this "raucous and heartfelt recounting of the early days of biker clubs" (Roadbike). The story starts one weekend in 1947, at a motorcycle race in Hollister, California. A few members of one club, the no-holds-barred "Boozefighters,"...
Cop
Forty-Three Years In The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
COP is the true story of Bill Sharp's service in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1968 to 2011. For over forty-three years he served in British Columbia where he upheld the law in Trail, Burnaby, Castlegar, Surrey, North Vancouver, Coquitlam and Langley. These are his stories of basic training,...