Tony: 3662 books
America's Beginnings
The Dramatic Events that Shaped a Nation's Character
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period—some known and some forgotten—from the Mayflower Compact to...
Slaughter at Halbe
The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April 1945 by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German 9th Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and destruction and his subordinates, eager to win the race...
With Our Backs to Berlin
The German Army in Retreat 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
In the final months of the Second World War in 1945, the German Army was in full retreat on both its Western and Eastern Fronts. British and American troops were poised to cross the River Rhine in the west, while in the East the vast Soviet war machine was steam-rolling the soldiers of the Third Reich...
Siege of Kustrin 1945
Gateway to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The unexpected arrival of Soviet troops at the end of January 1945 at the ancient fortress and garrison town of Küstrin came as a tremendous shock to the German High Command-the Soviets were now only 50 miles from Berlin itself. The Red Army needed the vital road and rail bridges passing through...
by Tony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The legendary F-14 Tomcat was the weapon of choice to strike against the enemies of the United States in the wake of the September 11 attacks, with F-14s flying thousands of bombing missions on al-Qaeda and Taliban positions. Written by aviation expert Tony Holmes, this book explores the F-14 pilots...
by Tony Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
'A fun international adventure that will appeal to fans of Clive Cussler and Taylor Stevens' Booklist
A body. A cover up. A buried secret.
A father who will do anything to solve the mystery of his son's disappearance.
A mother who will do anything to find her daughter.
The man who tries to...
Blue Latitudes
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world
Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great...
Kilroy Was There
A GI's War in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2000
When I saw Frank Kessler’s collection of photographs I was struck by how different they were from the movie-camera views I see on television. No public relations pictures here, intended to glorify battle and rally support. These were up-close snapshots of the dirty, damp, and disheveled men in the...
Around the Clock …
Diary of a Street Cop
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Author Tony Leone was simply a boy growing up in South Brooklyn in the 1950s. He was the oldest of three children born to average, middle-class parents. Leone didnt harbor a childhood ambition to become a cop. No one in his family was a member of the police force, nor did anyone ever speak of or encourage...
Reappraisals
Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of...
Hamilton
An American Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical**,**continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist.
In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the...
The Jamestown Experiment
The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The American dream was built along the banks of the James River in Virginia.
The settlers who established America's first permanent English colony at Jamestown were not seeking religious or personal freedom. They were comprised of gentlemen adventurers and common tradesmen who risked their...
Escape to Freedom
An Airman's Tale of Capture, Escape and Evasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
The author was shot down in his Wellington bomber on his third operational mission. Captured shortly after, he was interrogated in Dulag Luft before being sent to Stalag Luft 1 on the Baltic where he stayed from April to September 1944. As the noose tightened on Germany, Tony and his fellow kriegies...
Tail-End Charlies
The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Night after night they stifled their fears and flew through flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that would demolish the Third Reich. The airmen of the United States 8th Army Air ForceAmerican and British Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the Second World War, defying...