Mcmanus: 204 books
by Alan Ahrens-McManus
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
In a quirky flat in the Westend of Glasgow, during the tension preceding the second Gulf War, Bruno walks in on Justin exercising and gives in to his pleading to massage taut muscles. As Justin groans in pleasure, Bruno reads him a strange astrological dream, a dream which begins to echo eerily in...
by Fr Sean McManus
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
For almost forty years, Fr Sean McManus has been at the heart of the Irish American campaign to pressurise the British government regarding injustice in Northern Ireland. This is a deeply personal account of how his lone voice mainstreamed Northern Ireland on Capitol Hill, after the Catholic Church...
by Sam Henderson, Jesse McManus, Leah Wishnia
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Sam Henderson is joined this issue by John Brodowski, Manuel Gomez Burns, Jesse McManus, Ansis Purins, and Leah Wishnia as Magic Whistle expands to a relaunched and larger anthology format. It also contains Peter Bagge's touching (and hilarious) homage to the comic strips of his late brother, Doug.
The Tamarack Murders
A Bo Tully Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, has seen his share of small-town crime. Fact is, everyone in the area knows Tully, and knows his Blight Way of doing things. But when he and his deputy hike into the deep woods, tracking a suspected bank robber, little do they realize that they are about...
Cowboys Full
The Story of Poker
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate.
Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global**—but...
Welcome to Hell?
In Search of the Real Turkish Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour. They are more likely to mention banners proclaiming 'Welcome to hell'. Or Leeds United supporters stabbed to death on an Istanbul street.
Frustrated...
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Patrick McManus, the bestselling author of such hilarious books as A Fine and Pleasant Misery and Never Sniff a Gift Fish, now offers readers solid thoughts on the qualities that define leadership, beginning with the need to be tall, and much more, in this outrageous collection of short pieces that reveals his tortuous trip along the writer's path.
by Richard McManus
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
A short story of teenage love that will break your heart, with a twist at the end that will put it back together. It's a story about Algebra class, waiting for the bus and walking home from school with your best friend. Loosely inspired by the songs "Unloveable" and "Back To The Old House" by The Smiths.
Edward Heath
A Singular Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Sir Edward Heath KG MBE MP (1916–2005) was one of the most influential and controversial British politicians—and one of the most elusive and enigmatic personalities—of the post-war era. He was the first leader of the Conservative Party to be formally elected by the party's MPs, rather than "emerging;"...
September Hope
The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Acclaimed historian John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die, explores World War II’s most ambitious invasion, Operation Market Garden, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944.
“A riveting and deeply moving story of uncommon courage.”—Alex...
Grunts
Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
“A superb book—an American equivalent to John Keegan’s The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.”—Dave Grossman, Author of On Killing and On Combat
From the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die comes a sweeping narrative...
Richthofen Jagdstaffel Ahead
RFC Fighter Pilots Out-Performed and Out-Gunned over the Western Front, 1917. With Colour Artwork by John Batchelor.
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
In early 1917 the war in the air intensified on the Western Front in France. Richthofen's deadly Jagdstaffel 11 was flying vastly superior Albatros and Halberstadt planes, with synchronized machine guns. Into the fray came 40 Squadron RFC with its problematic FE8s.
No contest you would think,...
by Richard McManus
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Mike is hanging out at a bar with friends one night when he runs into an old flame. A tragic short love story, set to a jukebox soundtrack.
The Americans at Normandy
The Summer of 1944--The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In The Americans at D-Day, the first volume of this series, John C. McManus showed us the American experience in Operation Overlord. Now, in this succeeding volume, he does the same for the Battle of Normandy as a whole. Never before has the American involvement in Normandy been examined so thoroughly...