The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
From My Cold, Dead Hands
Charlton Heston and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and for his Academy Award--winning performance in the 1959 classic Ben-Hur. Throughout his long career, Heston used his cinematic status as a powerful moral force to effect social and...
Hollywood Under Siege
Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In 1988, director Martin Scorsese fulfilled his lifelong dream of making a film about Jesus Christ. Rather than celebrating the film as a statement of faith, churches and religious leaders immediately went on the attack, alleging blasphemy. At the height of the controversy, thousands of phone calls...
Beyond the Epic
The Life and Films of David Lean
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908--1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major...
Real-Life X-Files
Investigating the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
As a former private investigator and forensic writer, Joe Nickell has spent much of his career identifying forged documents, working undercover to infiltrate theft rings, and investigating questioned deaths. Now he turns his considerable investigative skill toward the paranormal, researching the most...
The Mystery Chronicles
More Real-Life X-Files
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
With a foreword by James Randi Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell has spent more than thirty years solving the world's most perplexing mysteries. This new casebook reveals the secrets of the Winchester Mystery House, the giant Nazca drawings of Peru, the Shroud of Turin, the "Mothman" enigma,...
by Joe Nickell
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. The secrets behind such daring feats as fire-eating and sword swallowing and bizarre exhibitions of human oddities as "Alligator Boys" and "Gorilla Girls" still remain, only grudgingly...
Surface and Destroy
The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese...
G.I. Nightingales
The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
"Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every...
Frontsoldaten
The German Soldier in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
" Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers?.I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through...
Advance and Destroy
Patton as Commander in the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
In the winter of 1944--1945, Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to...
Generals of the Army
Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Arnold, Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Formally titled "General of the Army," the five-star general is the highest possible rank awarded in the U.S. Army in modern times and has been awarded to only five men in the nation's history: George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H. Arnold, and Omar N. Bradley....
Through Mobility We Conquer
The Mechanization of U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2006
The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of...
Jacob L. Devers
A General's Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
General Jacob L. "Jake" Devers (1897--1979) was one of only two officers -- the other was Omar C. Bradley -- to command an army group during the decisive campaigns of 1944--1945 that liberated Europe and ended the war with Nazi Germany. After the war, Devers led the Army Ground Forces in...
Thunder in the Argonne
A New History of America's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector -- the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River...