Matthew: 5036 books
by Matthew Pratt Guterl
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Her performing days numbered, Josephine Baker did something outrageous: she transformed her chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe--12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future. Matthew Pratt Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious activist, determined to make a positive difference.
by Matthew Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Luminous and hypnotic, this dynamic collection explores the dark edges of childhood, violence, race, class, and masculinity, by one of the most fearless poets of his generation.
"Known for poems of universality of feeling, expressive lyricism of reflection, and heartrending allure"...
Red Moon Rising
Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space
The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union, it launched a U-2, which flew too high to...
Monte Cassino
The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the...
by Matthew White
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
“An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or,...
Breaking The Backcountry
Seven Years War In Virginia And Pennsylvania 1754-1765
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2003
Even as the 250th anniversary of its outbreak approaches, the Seven Years' War (otherwise known as the French and Indian War) is still not wholly understood. Most accounts tell the story as a military struggle between British and French forces, with shifting alliances of Indians, culminating in the...
Kill or Capture
How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaeda's suicide bombing campaign in Iraq
Kill or Capture is a true-life thriller that tells the story of senior military interrogator Matthew Alexander's adrenalinefilled, "outside the wire" pursuit of a notorious Syrian...
by Matthew Harffy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
AD 642. Anglo-Saxon Britain. A gripping, action-packed historical thriller and the fifth instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell.
Oswald has reigned over Northumbria for eight years and Beobrand has led the king to ever greater victories. Rewarded for his fealty...
by Matthew Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun
On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired,...
The Right Moment
Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just two years earlier, when Barry Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson by a landslide, the conservative movement was pronounced dead. In California, Governor...
Postmark Baghdad
On Patrol with the Iraqi National Police
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
In January 2007, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew K. Green journeys to Iraq to serve as the team chief of a national police transition team. Its a historic time, and America is pushing forth a radical plan meant to help the fledgling Iraqi government regain control of their country. Something must be done...
by Matthew West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
The thirty-year Golden Age of Piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many men - and even a few women - to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes, revenge. The treasure...
by Matthew Harffy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Historical fiction doesn't get much better than this' ANGUS DONALD, author of The Outlaw Chronicles.
'Matthew Harffy's tale of England in the Dark Ages is nothing less than superb' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY.
'Murder, betrayal and vengeance fuel tribal warfare and personal combat. Beobrand...
by Matthew Harffy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
'Historical fiction doesn't get much better than this' ANGUS DONALD, author of The Outlaw Chronicles.
'Matthew Harffy's tale of England in the Dark Ages is nothing less than superb' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY.
'Murder, betrayal and vengeance fuel tribal warfare and personal combat. Beobrand...