Philip: 4665 books

Book cover of Eland Dances
by Philip van Wulven
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011

Peter Fitt uses a Soviet airplane in a development project, to place fish in Kariba Lake, to provide a livelihood to people displaced by the new dam, and the Russians use this opportunity to supply arms to both sides in the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe independence struggle. They intend to escalate the civil...
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The Greeks

Lost Civilizations

by Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

This book is a portrait of Ancient Greece—but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, or that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. Philip Matyszak tells the lost stories of the Greeks outside Greece, compatriots...
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Pol Pot

Anatomy of a Nightmare

by Philip Short
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times In the three and a half years of Pol Pot's rule, more than a million Cambodians, a fifth of the country's population, were executed or died from hunger. An idealistic and...
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Oradour

The Massacre and Aftermath

by Philip Beck
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004

The destruction of the French village of Oradour and the massacre of its population in June 1944 by the SS Das Reich Division ranks as one of the most notorious atrocities of the Second World War. The scars that were left will never fully heal and there are those that would argue that they should...
Book cover of Armies of the Vietnam War 1962–75
by Philip Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012

Philip Katcher provides an overview to the conflict that engulfed Vietnam following the division of the country into two along the 17th Parallel in 1954. The uniforms and insignia of the US forces, including the army, Special Forces, air force, navy and marine corps, are dealt with in detail, together...

Mao

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Mao

The Man Who Made China

by Philip Short
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian...
Book cover of The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
by Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

Full of intriguing facts and diverting stories—the ideal introduction to the myths and tales that lie at the heart of Western culture. Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a...
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Sparta

Rise of a Warrior Nation

by Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Their contemporaries were fascinated by the Spartans and we still are. They are portrayed as the stereotypical macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless and impervious to discomfort and pain. What makes the study of Sparta so interesting is that to a large extent the Spartans lived up to this...
Book cover of The Ballad of Abu Ghraib
by Philip Gourevitch, Errol Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review) A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is...
Book cover of Wallace Stegner and the American West
by Philip L. Fradkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008

Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention....
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Man’s Better Angels

Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

by Philip F. Gura
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017

Banks failed, inequality grew, people were out of work, and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. The Panic of 1837 drew forth reformers who, animated by self-reliance, became prophets of a new moral order that would make America great again. Philip Gura captures a Romantic moment that was soon overtaken by civil war and postwar pragmatism.
Book cover of Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011

The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander...
Book cover of The Anatomy Lesson
by Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

The writer Nathan Zukerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction--pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso and taking possession of his life. Zukerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to the next--from...
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The Coming Draft

The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America

by Philip Gold
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006

A frustrating war and an endless occupation. The very real prospect of more conflict overseas. A military stretched beyond its breaking point. The stage is set for the resumption of the draft. Now, in an explosive and provocative book, Philip Gold, a former Marine and a disaffected conservative, reveals...
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