H W : 1212 books
The General vs. the President
MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.
At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that...
Woodrow Wilson
The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy
On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, "It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs." As America was...
Dreams of El Dorado
A History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Theodore Roosevelt (1857–1919) was the most literary of American Presidents, writing scores of books, including Through the Brazilian Wilderness and African Game Trails. He was also the most active of American writers. In little more than six decades, Roosevelt was, among many of his activities,...
The Hitler Youth
Origins and Development 1922-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
H. W. Koch, himself a former Hitler Youth brings a unique sensitivity and perspective to the history of one of the most fascinating vehicles for Nazi thought and propaganda. He traces the Hitler Youth movement from its antecedents in nineteenth-century German romanticism and pre-1914 youth culture,...
Snow on the Equator
Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
‘To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.’
For H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was...
Mischief in Greenland
Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
‘Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa and the Himalaya and further developed...
Triumph and Tribulation
No ship should be without Tabasco sauce
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
‘Experience is said to be the name men give to their mistakes and of the experience I gained in Spitsbergen that may well be true.’
The circumnavigation of Spitsbergen is the first of three voyages described in H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s fifteenth and final book, a remarkable example of...
Strategy Six Pack 3 (Illustrated)
Sea Power, Xerxes, Joan of Arc, Elements of Military Art and Science, Andrew Jackson, Aircrafts and Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
- Michael Porter.
Strategy Six Pack 3 presents a classic sextet of tactical texts:
Sea Power by Cyprian Bridge.
Xerxes by Jacob Abbott.
Joan of Arc by Edward Shepherd Creasy.
Elements of Military Art and Science by H. W. Halleck.
Andrew...
The Yanks Are Coming!
A Military History of the United States in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Robert E. Lee on Leadership, etc.) now turns his guns on the epic story of America’s involvement in the First World War with his new book The Yanks Are Coming: A Military History of the United States...
by H. W. Crocker, III
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The British Empire, ”the biggest empire in history”once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
In Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas’s journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in American history.
From Stephen Austin, Texas’s reluctant founder, to the alcoholic Sam Houston, who came to lead the Texas...
Mischief goes South
Every herring should hang by its own tail
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
‘No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.’
So observes H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.
In 1966, after...
When Men & Mountains Meet
Like the desire for drink or drugs, the craving for mountains is not easily overcome
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
‘We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. “Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death.”’
First published in 1946, the scope of...