Fletcher: 1215 books

For over a century, the Happy Canyon show has brought together families, friends and strangers to witness a joyous celebration of local history. Originally staged in 1914 by Roy Raley, the all-volunteer show presents a live retelling of Pendleton's founding that honors both the beauty of tribal life...

First published in 1913, this is a very rare and sought after Peninsular War memoir. The author served in the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers from 1811-1813, saw action in several battles and was wounded at the storming of Badajoz and at the Battle of Salamanca. He was killed at Roncesvalles in July 1813 during...

Thirty days. Four challenges. A collection of thirty poems written entirely in April 2016 during National Poetry Writing Month. Includes three extra poems written in the fall of 2016.

For most of my life I have had vivid and strange dreams and sometimes struggle to interpret them.  In college as part of my Psychology degree we studied dreams and the various theories of Freud, Carl Jung and others.  I think dreams are more personal than one theory or one explanation for everyone....

This short story (1631 words) is about the strong bond between two grey nomads driving around the vast continent of Australia and how they deal with death when it interrupts their travel.

"Out of the Mouth of Babe’s" Set in 1994 in England this Tale is about Jim Middleton and his wife Serena, nee Rooney, sister to Alfred. Serena dies prematurely from bowel cancer at the age of 58. Serena and Jim have one child, Paul, born in 1958, who meets June Bennett, legitimate...

This is book one in a series of three, all on different topics. Book ones' poems are about family, children and pets. All are easy to read and well written. Book two is called Inspirational Poems about love and spiritual matters. Book three, Poems About This and That.Topics from Insomnia, Fibromyalgia to today's Violence.

Although, to the casual eye, all British tanks of World War I look much the same, the Mark V is quite outstanding and has a strong claim to be the tank that won the Great War. In this title, renowned tank expert David Fletcher examines the technological developments that made this tank excel where...

The Matilda was the principal British infantry tank in the early years of World War II. It served with the BEF in France and later in North Africa, where it earned the title 'Queen of the Desert'. Outclassed by increasingly powerful German anti-tank weapons, it still remained a power in the South-East...

This early work by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Octopus Cycle' is a short story about towering octopuses that walk out of the sea and into the jungles of Madagascar. The Cryptofiction...

A jagged beam of flame, intenser than the hottest furnace leaped through the air, struck the green globe and reached the earth in a thousand tiny rivulets of light. A fantastic futuristic tale of science fiction awesomeness, brought to you by Fletcher Pratt!

In 1994 Ian Fletcher published his book Fields of Fire, which was the first book to show Wellington’s Peninsular War battlefields in full color. Now, almost 20 years on, he returns with a second book, The Peninsular War: Wellington’s Battlefields Revisited which shows how things have changed since...

Salamanca was the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War. Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at Garcia Hernandez. There would be two more years of sieges and hard fighting before...

America Indian culture and traditions have survived an unusual amount of oppressive federal and state educational policies intended to assimilate Indian people and destroy their cultures and languages. Yet, Indian culture, traditions, and people often continue to be treated as objects in the classroom...