Gilbert: 2100 books
by Leslie Gilbert Elman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
A kicky sassy way to learn about incredible women and their amazing accomplishments The Ladies' Room Reader Quiz Book offers thousands of bits of trivia around the lives and work of women including: Senators Rock stars Cooks Sports heroes Nobel Laureates The book offers many different kinds of...
The Chicago Freedom Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...
by Ann Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
An updated Lou Costello interpretation. This book is your ultimate resource for Lou Costello. Here you will find the most up-to-date 152 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Lou Costello's...
by Michael Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Written as a police procedural in the best traditions of the ‘Golden Age’ writers. Certainly one of Michael Gilberts finest in this particular sphere. A TV actress is murdered and it would seem that the alleged perpetrator has been framed. As the investigation progresses and evidence mounts the...
by Michael Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
When the wife of a recently escaped prisoner is found murdered and partially buried near a reservoir, Patrick Petrella, a Metropolitan Police Inspector, is called in. Suspicion falls on the escaped convict, but what could have been his motive? Petrella meets resistance from top detectives at the Yard...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 174 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its military, social, political and economic aspects....
Roman's Journey
A Memoir of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Polish painter, sculptor, and architect gives readers “a terrifying view from the epicenter of the Holocaust” (Kirkus Review).
Roman Halter was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gathered behind the curtains to watch the Volksdeutsche (German Polish) neighbors...
The Holocaust
The Human Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The renowned historian weaves a definitive account of the Holocaust—from Hitler’s rise to power to the final defeat of the Nazis in 1945.
Rich with eyewitness accounts, incisive interviews, and first-hand source materials—including documentation from the Eichmann and Nuremberg war crime trials—this...
Other Schindlers
Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The inspiring stories of courageous non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Holocaust Thanks to Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler’s List, people have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler’s extermination of the...
Emperors in the Jungle
The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and co-operation, it also illustrates the current moves...
Projections of Power
The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and anticolonial in its rhetoric and ideology. How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European...
The Untold Experiences of a Navy Corpsman
A Us Navy Hospital Corpsman with a Us Marine Corps Reconnaissance Patrol Team in the 1950'S on Covert Korean Missions.
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
"A US Navy Hospital Corpsman with a US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Patrol Team in the 1950's on covert Korean missions." I could add that "The five missions made by 'Doc Gentry' (assumed name for covert missions) with the Recon Patrols were all successful but, sadly, they suffered casualties on each mission."
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy.
In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing...