Marshall: 1961 books
A Lonely Kind of War
Forward Air Controller, Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
From retired Air Force pilot Marshall Harrison comes a remarkable memoir of aerial warfare in Vietnam. In his third combat tour, Harrison found himself converted from the high performance world of jets to the awkward-looking OV-10 Bronco and assigned as a FAC forward air controller. A captivating...
by Robbie Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
A humorous, soul-searching account of an aging hippie who gives up his hard-won career, family, and home life to bike around the world in search of new experiences
At age 45 Robbie Marshall had it all, or so it seemed. He had been married, had two children, and built up a successful...
by Robert Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
It was the last refuge of the desperate Jews-the warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, the Nazis implemented the destruction of their friends and relatives in a final Aktion against the ghetto in the Polish city of Lvov. A small band of Jews, however, escaped into the grim network of tunnels,...
Firestorm
Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
On February 13 and 14, 1945, three successive waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained down thousands of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the largely undefended German city of Dresden. Night and day, Dresden was engulfed in a vast sea of flame, a firestorm that generated 1,500-degree...
This Country of Ours
The Story of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
A classic, comprehensive survey of pre-20th Century American history, H.E. Marshall’s This Country of Ours: The Story of America is a treasure trove of information and essential reading for young historians. This new digital edition of This Country of Ours includes an image gallery.
Discovering the Rommel Murder
The Life and Death of the Desert Fox
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Marshall recounts how he learned the facts from Rommel's widow while delving into the great general's background and death.
Swift and History
Politics and the English Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously...
Mother Leakey and the Bishop
A Ghost Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in the Irish capital, Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable' crime....
by Laura K Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Writing and submitting short stories is exciting and rewarding. Learn how to get into the short story market and start making money doing what you love. I’ll take you step by step from concept to sale. The process may seem daunting but I’ll be with you through it all to make it fun and rewarding.
Here...
Walk It Off
The True and Hilarious Story of How I Learned to Stand, Walk, Pee, Run, and Have Sex Again After a Nightmarish Diagnosis Turned My Awesome Life Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Furiously Happy meets Elaine Lui in this truly original—and surprisingly hilarious—memoir about one woman’s journey to learn how to walk after a debilitating diagnosis turned her life upside down.
Learn How to Walk (Again) To-Do List:
Step 1: Stand
Step 2: Step
Step 3: Pee (Yes!)
Step...
Masters of the Soviet Cinema
Crippled Creative Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: these Soviet film directors are acknowledged to be among the greatest in the history of cinematography. To Eisenstein we owe such films as Battleship Potemkin and October; to Pudovkin Mother and The End of St Petersburg; to Dovzhenko Earth and Zvenigora; and...
Modernism in the Streets
A Life and Times in Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker
Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a...
by Karen Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Atom & Even is what God meant but we got the message all twisted and bent. From the time of creation to our present day we have struggled to uncover and understand who we really are. When we reach the Pearly Gates we will be asked one question only, “Did you learn to be you?” Now more than...
by Marshall Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1988
American literature over the last four hundred years has developed distinctive qualities and traditions, partly engendered by the land itself. The rich variety of literature flourished as the land was colonised and cultivated. In this new edition Marshall Walker has updated his wide-ranging study...