Williams: 7228 books
Chicago's Battery Boys
The Chicago Mercantile Battery in the Civil War's Western Theater
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
The history of an artillery unit and its role in the Civil War, at Vicksburg and beyond, with photos, maps, and illustrations.
The celebrated Chicago Mercantile Battery was organized by the Mercantile Association, a group of prominent Chicago merchants, and mustered into service in August of 1862....
by Christopher Corèdon, Ann Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary is intended to put an end to all that - though such a claim is inevitably rash. However, it has been designed in the hope that...
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 into Danger
The True Story of a Kievan Girl in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Escape into Danger tells the remarkable story of a young girl’s perilous adventures and coming of age during World War II. Born in Kiev to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, Sophia Williams chose to be identified as Jewish when she was eligible for a Soviet passport, mandatory at the age of...
Let It Go
A True Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
On a cold February night in 2007, a devoted father of four and a seventeen-year-old drunk driver both received life sentences. In one violent, devastating instant, both faced a drastically different—and uncertain—future. But as Chris Williams sat in his demolished vehicle, staring at the car that...
Theodosius
The Empire at Bay
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Emperor Theodosius (379-95) was the last Roman emperor to rule a unified empire of East and West and his reign represents a turning point in the policies and fortunes of the Late Roman Empire. In this imperial biography, Stephen Williams and Gerry Friell bring together literary, archaeological and...
by Gerard Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Set amid the clip and clatter of hansom cabs and the popping of the gaslights, this intriguing mystery introduces Dr. James Mortimer, the man who brought the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles to the attention of Sherlock Holmes. Here, Dr. Mortimer tells a tale of how he came across his second...
by Lt.-Col. J. H. Williams O.B.E.
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A book comes along like this once in a lifetime. You read it as a small child, or even an adult, and never forget the images it conjures up of a wonderful Englishman who lives in the mysterious forests of faraway Burma and of the kind native people who teach him about their lovely country. But most...
Captain John Gallop
Master Mariner and Indian Trader
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Capt. John Gallop; Master Mariner and Indian Trader, and his son, John, Jr.—the colorful careers of pioneers in our coastal-West Indian trader by Williams Haynes.
Sponsored by the Gallup Family Association, Inc.
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
All humanity is at peace. The Diamond Library contains all wisdom, and has incarnated itself as the Treasured King. But now the peace is threatened by the alien Sang, a species bent on conquest, and humanity’s response is fatally divided.
At the height of the crisis, the Treasured King...
Hardscrabble
The High Cost of Free Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario's Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free...
Hurricane of Independence
The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane season
On September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial...
Steaming to Victory
How Britain's Railways Won the War
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history.
But there is a story that has hitherto been largely overlooked. It is a tale...
by Samuel Grant Williams, J. Ross Browne, Charles H. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore—he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the...