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by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
When Pope Leo rode out of Rome in 452 to meet Attila the Hun, he had no arms, no army, no bodyguards, no great retinue of ambassadors and advisers. Only a few churchmen and lesser officials of the enfeebled and fading Roman Empire accompanied him. Attila came to the encounter leading a large, well-armed,...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
By the age of thirty-one, the scholarly monk Desiderius Erasmus was the most renowned and revered humanist theologian in Renaissance Europe. A sickly man, driven by a childhood fear of the plague, Erasmus devoted his life to the goal of uplifting people through faith, reason, and education. He satirized...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
At the July 1991 meeting of the so-called G7, President George H. W. Bush of the United States and leaders of the other industrial nations were joined by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, of what was then still the Soviet Union, for his last hurrah. He was seeking direct foreign aid to shore up his rapidly...
The Burr Conspiracy
Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr Conspiracy
In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which...
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...
Empires at War
The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister...
Hard Measures
How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
An explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
While the American public is aware of the CIA’s use of highly controversial “enhanced interrogation...
The Long Pursuit
Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on two of America's most towering politicians and the intense personal rivalry that transformed both them and the nation they sought to lead in the dark days leading up to the Civil War.
For the better...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Irma Grese was among the Nazi war criminals tried and found guilty at the Lueneburg, Germany trial held from September-November 1945. Grese aspired to be a nurse but was assigned to concentration camp work by the government labour exchange. She admired Adolf Hilter, as did many German youths, and...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
Flying High
Remembering Barry Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement's first presidential standard-bearer, Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was in many ways the perfect candidate: self-reliant, unpretentious, unshakably...
by Ralph L Angelo Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
“Help They’re all out to get me!” Is a book created to make the new, and even the not so new motorcyclist a better motorcyclist. Between these covers you will find tips and tricks that make surviving the everyday world for the everyday rider a much easier proposition. Inside you’ll find everything...
10 Things Jesus Never Said
And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Too often Christians carry a lot of guilt and baggage when it comes to their relationship with God. The problem is that so many of us believe unbiblical, damaging things about how critical God is and how fed up he must be with us. But many of the things we think Jesus would say to us--things like...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Terrorism is not a new issue in France, not by any means. The recent attacks which killed 12 editors and cartoonists at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, brings to mind the history of terrorism during the war for Algerian Independence from 1953-1962. In those years France...