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by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
offensive to be waged against Germany even as France poured incredible numbers of men into the slaughterhouse that was the desperate defense of Verdun.
élan vital” of the French people, a quality, he argued, that set the Gallic race apart from the rest of the world.
French losses were just under...
Miracle at Belleau Wood
The Birth Of The Modern U.S. Marine Corps
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Now in paperback!
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The battle that transformed a group of common
soldiers into the modern-day Marine Corps
Miracle at Belleau Wood begins in June 1918 at Les Mare Farm in France with just...
by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany’s Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western...
by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
100 Turning Points in American History is the first in a series of books about the critical decisions, events, inventions, and discoveries that shaped our nation, our world, and our civilization.
Each volume presents the stories of 100 decisions/events/ breakthroughs in chronological order...
by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Great War ate men, machines, and money without mercy or remission. At the end of 1915, the German army chief of staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed he knew how to finally kill the beast and win the war.
On Christmas day, 1915, Falkenhayn sent a letter to Kaiser Wilhelm II proposing a campaign...
Backyard Birding
A Guide To Attracting And Identifying Birds
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
How to bring birds to your home and keep them there—including 250 full-color photos
They're out there every day, flashing through your yard, perching in a tree, collecting on utility wires, or congregating around puddles. They already share your backyard and neighborhood with you, but you—even...
Historic Glacier National Park
The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Historic Glacier National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park’s history, the slices of life in northwestern Montana that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose to explore this gloriously beautiful snowy corner of the United States. There’s the presence of...
Flying Tiger
The True Story of General Claire Chennault and the U.S. 14th Air Force in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Flying Tigers and the U.S. Fourteenth will be the subject of a huge upcoming film from IMAX and director John Woo. The film is scheduled to start shooting in spring 2011 with no firm release date stated yet. The role of Chenault in the film is likely to be the role of a lifetime for a huge star.
When...
George S. Patton
On Guts, Glory, and Winning
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
George S. Patton: On Guts, Glory, and Winning relies on the writings, speeches, and poems of George Patton, and includes his prayer to stop the rain during the battle of northern Europe. What separates this book from all of the many about World War II’s most famous battle commander is the extensive...
by Robert Barr Col. Smith, Laurence J. Yadon
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In thirty-five chapters, The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told covers many of the leading American and British Commonwealth fighter aces of WW I and II, together with a few bomber crews whose gallantry made a substantial contribution to the end of WW II. Other nations had their aces,
but this book...
Where We Worked
A Celebration Of America's Workers And The Nation They Built
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers.
Lost in Tibet
The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Caught in a violent storm and blown far off their intended course, five American airmen--flying the dangerous Himalayan supply route known as "The Hump"--were forced to bail out just seconds before their plane ran out of fuel. To their astonishment, they found they had landed in the heart of Tibet....
Ax Murders of Saxtown
The Unsolved Crime That Terrorized a Town and Shocked the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
An entire household massacred. A family feud. A sheriff found dead. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Reports of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes.
In 1874, the Saxtown massacre rocked a nation reeling from economic depression and shattered a small German immigrant...
by Mike Klis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The 50 Greatest Players in Denver Broncos History examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on one of the National Football League’s most successful franchises. Using as measuring sticks the degree to which they impacted the fortunes of the team, the extent to which they added...