Carol: 4546 books
by Carol Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses....
The Bill of Rights
The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
“Narrative, celebratory history at its purest” (Publishers Weekly)—the real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a vivid account of political strategy, big egos, and the partisan interests that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.
Those...
Journey to Zion
Voices from the Mormon Trail
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Commissioned for the pioneer sesquicentennial, here is a remarkable volume by Carol Cornwall Madsen that captures the spirit of the pioneer experience and spans the entire pioneer period, 1846-1869. It is a fine collection of documents selected from the writing and diaries of the pioneers who traveled...
Radioman
An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Radioman is the biography of Ray Daves, a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and an eyewitness to World War II. It is based on the author's handwritten notes from a series of interviews that began on the eighty-second birthday of the combat veteran and gives a first-person account of the world's...
Fever of War
The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their...
Lizzie of Langley Street
the perfect wartime family saga, set in the East End of London
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
'One of the best saga writers of her time' ROSIE CLARKE
IN THE AFTERMATH OF WAR, CAN SHE SAVE HER FAMILY FROM RUIN?
Following her mother's untimely death, Lizzie Allen is facing desperate times. Her father Tom, crippled during WWI, has been left a broken and bitter man; her elder brother...
Together for Christmas
a heart-wrenching family saga about orphans at Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
A heart-warming and nostalgic Christmas family saga set at the heart of wartime London, from the bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas. Perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Rosie Goodwin
WILL CHRISTMAS BE A BEACON OF HOPE IN THE DARKEST OF TIMES?
After Britain declares war on...
A Wartime Christmas
the Sunday Times bestselling family saga, perfect for Christmas 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling Christmas saga. The perfect read for the cold winter nights!
THIS CHRISTMAS, CAN LOVE FIND A WAY?
1941, Isle of Dogs. The little community on Slater Street has fought valiantly to keep their spirits up through the long nights of the Blitz. Though her husband...
by Scott Cupp, Carol J. Rothgeb
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Family Tragedy
On Sunday May 2, 1993 in Lantana, Florida, a town in the Palm Beach area, the naked body of ten-year-old Andrew "A.J." Schwarz was found floating facedown in the family's backyard swimming pool. But how could he have drowned when the water level was only four feet deep?...
Lucretia Mott's Heresy
Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual...
Blitz Diary
Life Under Fire in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Firsthand accounts of the experiences of ordinary people during the Second World War Historian Carol Harris has collected a remarkable series of accounts from the war's darkest days, with heartwarming stories of survival, perseverance, solidarity, and bravery, the preservation of which becomes increasingly...
With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows,...
D-Day Diary
Life on the Front Line in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Eyewitness accounts of the experiences of those who participated in D-Day, including sailors, soldiers, airmen, and civilians from both sidesHistorian Carol Harris collects together remarkable tales of bravery, survival, and sacrifice from what was one of the war's most dramatic and pivotal episodes, and...
by Carol Marlene Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
To all my friends and readers who admire poetry.I have compiled 35 poems to warm your heart on a chilly day or soothe you in a moment of stress. For me, poetry is a healing experience. When one writes a poem there is a healing takes place within, and I do believe that when one reads a poem the same...