Thomas Ayres: 3 books
That's Not in My American History Book
A Compilation of Little-Known Events and Forgotten Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2000
History classes reduce America's story into a dry litany of dates, names, and places. That's Not in My American History Book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets the record straight. This book explains why July 4th isn't really Independence Day, reveals 19th century mudslinging...
A Military Miscellany
From Bunker Hill to Baghdad: Important, Uncommon, and Sometimes Forgotten Facts, Lists, and Stories from America#s Military History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
For armchair generals, history buffs, and military enthusiasts everywhere, A Military Miscellany is an essential and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America’s rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia,...
by Joe Hill, Nancy Pickard, Duane Swierczynski
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...