JOHN OF BRIENNE
Him on the One Side and Me on the Other
1999
MEMOIRAlexander and James Campbell, born and raised in Scotland, immigrated to the United States as teenagers in the 1850s and settled in vastly different regions of the country - Alexander in New York City...
Company Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
1882
MEMOIRThe most celebrated Confederate private's memoir of the war in the Western theater, written with wry humor and devastating honesty about the cost of the conflict.
The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography
1992
MEMOIRProvides profiles of some 3,000 major military leaders and thinkers, from Julius Caesar and before, to Norman Schwarzkopf. Arranged alphabetically, the biographical entries range from 200 to 1,000 wor...
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...
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 ...
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...
Sandhills Boy
2007
MEMOIRKelton reveals the origins and development of his unique storytelling talent and Texas treasure.
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...
A Weary Road
2018
MEMOIRMore than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experi...
American Scoundrel
2002
MEMOIRCharming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; an...
Of Uncommon Birth
2016
MEMOIRPages:1 to 25 -- Pages:26 to 50 -- Pages:51 to 75 -- Pages:76 to 100 -- Pages:101 to 125 -- Pages:126 to 150 -- Pages:151 to 175 -- Pages:176 to 200 -- Pages:201 to 225 -- Pages:226 to 250 -- Pages:25...
Looking Both Ways
2014
MEMOIRThe reader is invited to enter the lives of two young men with completely opposite views of the Vietnam War. One was a helicopter pilot, flying gunship in Hueys. The other enlisted in the Navy to keep...
Neither an Officer Nor a Gentleman
2020
MEMOIRIn Neither an Officer Nor a Gentleman, a pair of twenty-something young men serve for four years in the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1971, enjoying the adventures of an enlisted man's life on aircraft carri...