Lyons Press: 836 books
Commanding the Storm
Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war’s most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies. They...
Our One Common Country
Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy describes...
by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An argument settler--and starter--for Civil War buffs who want to know which side had the better soldiers: Armies South, Armies North definitively compares the military forces of both sides.
Civil War buffs are always arguing over which side had the better soldiers. Armies South/Armies North...
Operation Fortitude
The Story of the Spies and the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Operation Fortitude tells the thrilling tale of an ingenious decption that changed the course of the Second World War. The Story is one of intrigue, drama, and good fortune, practically a Hollywood script. It is the tale of double agents, fake radio transmissions and dummy invasion craft.
by Department of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In the global War on Terror, among the greatest threats to the United States military are insurgent uprisings. Enter the U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Warrior Handbook, the counterinsurgency playbook used by the greatest army in the world. This manual establishes fundamental principles for tactical...
by Mickey Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In the tradition of true crime bestsellers by Alan Dershowitz and Dominick Dunne, Mickey Sherman delivers a powerful and extraordinarily candid account of his legal career that gives the readers an all-access backstage pass to not only the sausage factory that is the criminal justice system but the...
Hard Ground
Woods Cop Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Hard Ground is a treasure chest of stories for lovers of the outdoors, fans of smart crime fiction, and, of course, the legions of Joseph Heywood fans. Featuring the game-warden colleagues of Woods Cop star Grady Service, the tales in this collection follow the men and women patrolling Michigan’s...
Death in Glacier National Park
Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Crown of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Adventures in the wilderness can be dramatic and deadly. Glacier National Park’s death records date back to January 1913, when a man froze to death while snowshoeing between Cut Bank and St. Mary. All told, 260 people have died or are presumed to have died in the park during the first hundred years...
Death in the Great Smoky Mountains
Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Most Popular Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
It's no surprise that fatalities occur every year in Great Smoky Mountains National Park due to the sheer number of visitors--more than ten million annually! In these cautionary tales, Bradley recounts deaths and other unfortunate incidents that have resulted from accidents and human folly, including...
From Baghdad with Love
A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.–led attack on the “most dangerous city on Earth” in late 2004, however, is not an insurgent but a...
Mark Twain
His Words, Wit, and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A unique collection of quotes and photos revealing a new side of Mark Twain's humor and wit.
A highly entertaining collection of timeless quotations from Mark Twain. The 19th-centurey American writer, humorist, public speaker, and publisher wrote hundreds of short stories, and his best-known...
Lost Voices
The Untold Stories of America's World War I Veterans and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
2017 is the 100th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Germany. Many historians take a diminutive stance regarding America’s involvement but it cannot be underestimated by any means. It was the reason that brought Germany to it is knees and forced them to accept an armistice that...
Where Were You?
America Remembers the JFK Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
November 22, 1963. A policeman’s wife was fetching their sick child from school. A young shoe store manager had no idea what lay in wait for him that day. A future president was tending to his farm. A future vice president was standing on the steps of his college library. A Georgetown student was...
by Joseph Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parachutes silently through the sulphuric haze in the smoldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops that encircle the skeleton that the city has become...