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Another Ten For The Road -- Motorcycle Travel and Adventure Stories
Ten For The Road, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Another Ten for the Road gives you a new batch of motorcycle travel and adventure stories along with a few of my observations about the road and riding.
This is the second book in my "…for the Road" series of easy reading motorcycle adventure and travel stories and observations...
The River Was Dyed with Blood
Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous wartime incident. At Fort Pillow in 1864, the attack by Confederate forces under Forrest’s command left many of the Tennessee Unionists and black soldiers...
by Polybius, Brian McGing
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward...
Beyond Shock and Awe
Warfare in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
**From one of the twelve founding members of Delta Force, a collection of commentary on the future of war. **
In Beyond Shock and Awe, media commentator Eric Haney—a founding member of Delta Force and author of Inside Delta Force—along with other noted military analysts and award-nominated...
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a...
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Seven Days Battles
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D....
by Brian S. Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Not long after my three children went to live with their mother and her boyfriend, they began complaining about the terrible new life they encountered in their new home.
They and I discussed the different situations and tried to work out ways in which they could make things better. This book...
Best Little Stories from the White House
More Than 100 True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Behind the White House's impressive facade lies the long history of the men who have lived and governed within it's walls. From births to deaths, weddings to funerals, the White House has seen it all. In Best Little Stories from the White House, author C. Brian Kelly takes us on a tour of the White...
The Rape of the Nile
Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by renowned archaeology author, Brian Fagan, with characters that include the ancient historian Herodotus; Theban tomb robbers; obelisk-stealing Romans;...
God's Bestseller
William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible--A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The English Bible--the most familiar book in our language--is the product of a man who was exiled, vilified, betrayed, then strangled, then burnt.
William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed as...
by Brian Mockenhaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In The Living and the Dead, acclaimed journalist and Iraq War veteran Brian Mockenhaupt tells the gripping true story of three close friends—Tom, Ian, and Jimmy— at a Marine encampment in southern Afghanistan. While fighting a war many back home have forgotten, the devil dogs of Patrol Base Dakota...
by Brian C. Melton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Robert E. Lee: A Biography takes one of the best known and least understood figures of the American Civic War down from his pedestal as an iconic, legendary hero and transforms him into a human being that 21st-century readers can easily relate to. Author Brian Melton clearly separates fact from the...
by Brian Matthew Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace.
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning...
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?
Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.
Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious...