Ford Ford: 1662 books
by John Butler Ford
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Every schoolchild knows about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln - how the actor John Wilkes Booth shot the president while he was watching a play, leaped to the stage from the presidential box, and made his escape. But there is far more to the story, including the bizarre scheme that Booth first...
First Black Red
The Story of Chuck Harmon, the First African American to Play for the Cincinnati Reds
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Chuck Harmons life story symbolizes and transcends our countrys struggle for civil rights and equality. From his humble beginnings as one of the 12 children of Sherman and Rosa Harmon in Southern Indiana, to the pressure of death threats as a Cincinnati player, this gentlemen big leaguer is an example...
The Shadow Year
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed,...
Beuys is Boys
A Guide to the Pronunciation of Artists, Architects, Works of Art,Museums and More…
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
An essential reference which lifts words from print to ear with reliable and correct pronunciation. It includes, in addition to artists, names of architects, designers, works of art, foreign museums, acronyms and art terms. This extremely handy guide is intended for a wide audience ranging from art aficionados...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster film, Go Tell the Spartans. It's 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack; the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the...
by Paul Leicester Ford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Biography. According to Wikipedia: "Washington is seen as a symbol of the United States and republicanism in practice. His devotion to civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians. Washington died in 1799, and in his funeral oration, Henry Lee said that of all Americans,...
Run The Gauntlet
The Channel Dash 1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet – the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen – stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything...
Core Values
A Soldier's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The home my family occupied after we moved to Kingston was situated along the route taken by dignitaries on their way to Jamaica House, the Prime Ministers official residence. As a result of this fortuitous bit of luck, we never had to join the throng at the airport eagerly awaiting Queen Elizabeth,...
by Ford Risley
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Civil War Journalism presents a unique synthesis of the journalism of both the North and South during the war. It features a compelling cast of characters, including editors Horace Greeley and John M. Daniel, correspondents George Smalley and Peter W. Alexander, photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of the Second World War. This little book, which first appeared in Air &...
by Ford, Roger
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The World's Great Tanks examines the best tanks to have ever entered combat - from the earliest British Mark IVs and Vs to classic World War II tanks such as the Russian T-34, the American Sherman, and the German Tiger and Panther tanks to the more modern tanks, such as the Abrams, T-72, Challenger and...
The Mareth Line 1943
The end in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The battle of El Alamein saw the shattering of Germany's hopes for victory in North Africa and from this point on the end was inevitable. In the six months that passed before the final surrender there was much hard fighting, as the defeated German and Italian armies sought to hold off the encroaching...
The Enemy Within Never Did Without
German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations...
Race and the Early Republic
Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic."
Race and the...