A WEARY ROAD
Moment of Battle
2013
MEMOIRPresents the twenty most crucial battles of all time, explaining how each conflict represents a historical epoch that triggered profound transformations and significantly shaped the development of the...
Military Commanders
2004
MEMOIRFrom ancient Greece to Desert Storm, Military Commanders presents a chronological history of great battles and the men who won them. Beginning with Leonidas of Sparta, who died at Thermopylae and endi...
Shooting Up
2016
MEMOIRPharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the advent...
Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War
2007
MEMOIRExplores the moral dilemmas faced by various religious sects and how these groups struggled to come to terms with the effects of wartime Americanization-- without sacrificing their religious beliefs a...
Persepolis
2003
MEMOIRThe great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and p...
She Captains
2000
MEMOIRIf a hen frigate was any ship carrying a captain's wife, then a she captain is a bold woman distinguished for courageous enterprise in the history of the sea. Tells us what life was like for the women...
Sailing True North
2019
MEMOIRFrom one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrio...
By the Spear
2014
MEMOIRAlexander the Great is arguably one of the best known and most exciting figures from antiquity. He waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhum...
Tribe
2017
MEMOIRFrom the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe ...
The Grand Old Man of Maine
2004
MEMOIRGrand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914
The Casablanca Man
1993
MEMOIRMichael Curtiz (1888-1962) was one of the most important and prolific directors in the history of cinema, yet he has never been granted the recognition he deserves. The Casablanca Manis the first full...
Asperger's Children
2018
MEMOIR"Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winn...
World War II Front Line Nurse
2008
MEMOIRThe riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War
Mussolini
2002
MEMOIR“The particular merit of Mack Smith's Mussolini is that it reveals his extraordinary blood-thirstiness...combined with an equally extraordinary incompetence...one of the most severe indictments of Mus...
43 Seconds to Hiroshima
2005
MEMOIRAugust 6, 1945, was the day the world was forever changed. The first atomic bomb ever used in the history of warfare was released over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Only twelve men were privileged to ...
World War II Heroes
2007
MEMOIRThe world was saved by real-life heroes. You will never forget their incredible true stories. [back cover].
Sandhills Boy
2007
MEMOIRKelton reveals the origins and development of his unique storytelling talent and Texas treasure.
Yokohama Gaijin
2012
MEMOIRG e o r g e L a v r o v George Lavrov was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, where he attended St. Joseph grade and high school. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University, with a major in in...
Tailspin
2022
MEMOIRA rookie social studies teacher overhears a conversation about a World War II tail gunner who survived a four-mile fall from the sky. When the elderly Gene Moran finally shares his saga, John has no i...
Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army
2014
MEMOIRThe Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian...