William Fowler: 12 books
by William Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This book is a collection of a wide variety of poems. In this tome, you will find poems about serious current-day issues, including politics. There are patriotic poems as well as poems outlining how we can improve our world as human beings. You will find humor and whimsy as well. William Fowler hopes that you will enjoy reading them as much as he enjoyed writing them.
We Gave Our Today
Burma 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
The Lost Voices of our 'Forgotten Army' in the war with Japan 1941-45.
Nearly a million strong by 1944, the British 14th Army fought and ultimately conquered the Japanese forces that invaded Burma and strove to break through into India. But the victory was hard won, with great suffering along...
by William Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The inside story of the most daring SAS rescue mission ever
In September 2000 eleven British soldiers were captured by a notorious militia gang in Sierra Leone. The so-called 'West Side Boys' had subjected their part of the country to a long reign of terror, murdering, kidnapping and mutilating...
Empires at War
The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister...
Steam Titans
Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History
The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic.
Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution...
Slave Narrative Six Pack 6
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
“No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.”
- Dorothea Dix
Slave Narrative Six Pack 6 presents six more essential texts:
Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen.
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written...
American Crisis
George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The story of the dramatic two years (October 1781-November 1783) after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact...
Refactoring
Improving the Design of Existing Code
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications...
Under Two Flags
The American Navy in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory. Neither ponderous nor hagiographic, the work presents characters and events that have been previously neglected and offers candid assessments...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by William Worthington Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009