Kenneth: 4007 books
The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) The Little City of Hope...
Manhood Enslaved
Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes...
Bending History
Barack Obama's Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
By the time of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, he had already developed an ambitious foreign policy vision. By his own account, he sought to bend the arc of history toward greater justice, freedom, and peace; within a year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,...
The Black Seminoles
History of a Freedom-Seeking People
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John Horse, chronicles their heroic struggle for freedom.
Beginning with the early 1800s, small groups of fugitive slaves living in Florida joined the Seminole Indians (an association that thrived for...
by Kenneth L. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
People outside the Catholic faith are often baffled, skeptical, and sometimes hurt when a loved one converts to the faith. They see the convert as a newly minted Church spokesperson, a resource they can pepper with questions about the Church. Lifelong Catholics can also find themselves in this role....
Sister States, Enemy States
The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
Tank Warfare
A History of Tanks in Battle
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
After its introduction during the First World War, the tank revolutionised warfare, and proved to be a terrifying and efficient machine of war. Kenneth Macksey provides a study of the policy-makers and tank strategists, the technical and tactical development, as well as presenting the story of the...
Commando
Special Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Commando', the history Commandos and small-scale raids during World War II, is a gripping narrative, tracing the actions of the fearless men who served as Allied commandos for the Combined Operations department during the war. Kenneth Macksey offers the details of St Nazaire, Bruneval, Dieppe as well...
Making War at Fort Hood
Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach...
"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye"
Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This classic New York Times bestseller is an illuminating portrait of JFK—from his thrilling rise to his tragic fall—by two of the men who knew him best.
As a politician, John Fitzgerald Kennedy crafted a persona that fascinated and inspired millions—and left an outsize legacy in the...
Reluctant Rebels
The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause,...
Shadow Warriors
The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
“An alarming but necessary book that reads like a thriller. By raising uncomfortable questions, Ken Timmerman has performed a significant public service.”
–Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host
Some have called it the CIA’s greatest covert operation of all time.
It...
We Died With Our Boots Clean
A Royal Marine Commando in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
At the age of seventeen, Kenneth McAlpine ran away from school to join the Royal Marine Commandos. As the youngest member of the youngest commando force, after three months he found himself fighting on the beaches of Normandy. In We Died With Our Boots Clean, McAlpine tells his own unique story of...
Christians and Muslims
From History to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
On the Sunday following September 11, 2001, Reverend Kenneth Cragg worshipped as usual in his sanctuary, located directly across the street from a Muslim mosque. In a gracious act of good faith, the Islamic congregation invited the Christian congregation to join them after worship for an introduction...