Gerald: 1985 books
Howard Fast
Life and Literature in the Left Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the American Communist Party in...
by Gerald Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Entirely revised and updated in summer 2018 with improved rural maps.
A practical guide to walking the Camino de Santiago/Camino Francés with information about pilgrim hostels and services plus lots of background information about the history, culture and architecture of the places you will...
Crisis in the Pacific
The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
From the depths of defeat...
On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion.
With an undersupplied patchwork army at his command, General Douglas MacArthur led a valiant defense...
Wings of Gold
The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes Wings of Gold, the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from its humble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the...
Battling Buzzards
The Odyssey of the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
The Few and the Brave
Convinced by 1943 that the assault upon Nazi-held Europe would yield swiftly to elite troops, the U.S. Army created parachute regimental combat teams. Drawing on daring volunteers willing to hurl themselves from airplanes and hit the ground fighting, the 517th PRCT became...
by Gerald Linderman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one...
For Valour
Canadians and the Victoria Cross in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration.
As Canada came into its own as a nation during the First World War, proving itself capable of standing alongside Britain on the world stage, scores of Canadians were awarded the Commonwealth’s...
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then residing in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with London. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne complements his earlier celebrated Negro...
by Gerald M. Carbone
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Before he became "the Father of our Country," George Washington was the Father of the American Army. He took an army that had no experience, no tradition, and no training, and fought a protracted war against the best, most disciplined force in the world—the British Army. Deftly handling...
Gateway to the Confederacy
New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
A collection of ten new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued the legacy of these struggles and...
by Gerald Gliddon
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than 46 soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded Britain's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. In a series of mini-biographies, Gerald Gliddon examines the men and the dramatic events that led to the...
by Dr. Gerald L. Miller, Shari Miller Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
MAKING THE ROUNDS shares the stories and insights of a compassionate doctor who practiced family medicine in the small working-class town of Markle, Indiana. This memoir develops the idea that, as a standard of health, communal wholeness is as important as individual wholeness, that health involves...
by Gerald Swick
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The State of West Virginia was born by cesarean section, its survival chances precarious, its legitimacy in question. The last slaveholding state admitted to the Union, it is the only state that owes its existence to America’s Civil War. In Virginia’s counties west of the Shenandoah Valley grievances...
Ditched in Burma
No Mandalay, No Maymyo, 79 Survive
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
From a humble Anglo-Irish background, and an intense engineering apprenticeship; – in October 1939, aged 20, Gerald Fitzpatrick, joined the British Army. Following service of twelve months, as a RE Sapper, he was commissioned into the Infantry. Whilst undergoing Officer Cadet training, at Folkestone...