Norman: 2081 books
Indians on Display
Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions...
by Norman F. Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century and a half of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents-as the bloody fool” theory has it-or are they inevitable?
The...
A Nation on Trial
The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
No recent work of history has generated as much interest as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Purporting to solve the mystery of the Nazi holocaust, Goldhagen maintains that ordinary Germans were driven by fanatical anti-Semitism to murder the Jews. An immediate national best-seller,...
Hitler's Rockets
The Story of the V-2s
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation...
Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama
The Untold Story of the Holy Men Who Shaped Tibet, from Pre-history to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The Complete Story of the Dalai Lamas
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is known to the world for his efforts to preserve Tibetan culture and for his inspiring spiritual teachings. Often unnoticed, however, is the long, colorful history from which this most beloved of holy men has...
If Britain Had Fallen
The Real Nazi Occupation Plans
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
What if Germany had invaded the British Isles? “A distinguished contribution to the canon of alternate histories” (Military History).
If Britain Had Fallen is a fascinating contemplation of what it would have been like for Britain to live day to day under Nazi occupation. It discusses every...
Lord Liverpool
The Life and Political Career of Robert Banks Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool, 1770-1828
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
'He gave his name to the longest, and one of the most important, British administrations of the nineteenth century. Yet the man himself has remained a shadowy figure.' Norman Gash, from the introductionPrime Minister at the time of the battle of Waterloo, Robert Banks Jenkinson, the 2nd Earl...
by Norman Polmar; Christopher Cavas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
From historys earliest days men have gone down to seaon logs, then boats, and, subsequently, ships. Norman Polmar and Christopher Cavas maneuver in Most Wanted™ style to find the best and worst of the admirals, ships, inventions, submarines, torpedoes, and aircraft that have fought on, over, and under...
Women at War
The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the...
by Norman Polmar; K. J. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversaryÆs homeland,...
Air Battle for Dunkirk
26 May - 3 June 1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
‘Where is the RAF?’ was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air forces were there, as Norman Franks proves, detailing...
by Norman Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Lloyd George once spoke of 'a very powerful combination - in its way the most powerful in the country'. Its proceedings were invariably conducted at Cliveden, the country estate of the fabulously wealthy Nancy and Waldorf Astor. Collectively dubbed 'God's Truth Ltd', the group included leading politicians,...
by Norman Podhoretz
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A controversial memoir about American intellectual life and academia and the relationship between politics, money, and education.
Norman Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia University on a scholarship, and later received...
by Tom Norman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Morning Ritual Guide: How To Wake Up Everyday Happy, Productive & Motivated, Build Self Discipline, Increase Positive Energy & Develop Success Habits.
This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to be productive and to be successful with your day to day life. This book also...