Patrick: 6740 books
The Unknowns
The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives millions...
by Patrick Cockburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Who is Muqtada al-Sadr, and...
Arab Spring Then and Now
From Hope to Despair
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Middle East conflict and the Arab Spring: Gain insight and learn from two of the most acclaimed experts on the Middle East
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In December 2010, the “Tunisian Revolution” touched off a wave of protests, riots, revolutions and civil wars throughout the Middle East. Initially...
IRAQ
The West Shakes Up The Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Patrick Cockburn on Iraq: The West Shakes Up The Middle East, The Independent continues its series of History As It Happened books. Over the past 15 years the US and its allies should have had the greatest interest in maintaining a Middle East status quo. But, as Cockburn details in a series of...
ISIS
Battling the Menace
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Emergence of ISIS: Battling the Menace, Patrick Cockburn provides unique insights into the Islamic State scourge. He traces the origin of ISIS, confronts the horror of its methods, and details its threat to the Middle East and the world at large through a series of his articles published by The Independent.
ARCTIC SNOW TO DUST OF NORMANDY
The Extraordinary Wartime Exploits of a Naval Special Agent
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
Very few men have a more exciting and dramatic story of their wartime activities to tell than Patrick Dalzel-Job. In 1940 using his special knowledge of North Norway's coast line he landed and moved over 10,000 Allied soldiers in local boats without the loss of a single life. Acting against specific...
Alarmstart: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Second World War
Northwestern Europe – from the Battle of Britain to the Battle of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Alarmstart (scramble) charts the experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, diaries and flying log books, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published. For anyone interested...
Wings
One Hundred Years of British Aerial Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's "famous few"—the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command—held Göering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For...
Battle of Britain
A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Battle of Britain is a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. It is the story of Britain's fight for national survival, from the shock defeat and evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940 to fighter Command's assertion of superiority over the Luftwaffe...
by Patrick Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence – the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Air warfare was a terrible...
The Reckoning
Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land-A True Detective Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.
Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British Palestine....
Rhode Island's Founders
From Settlement to Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian, journeys with us to early America, where Rhode Island's founders laid the groundwork for America's policy of religious freedom. Learn what led Roger Williams to write The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution and discover how James Franklin, older brother...
The Day Fidel Died
Cuba in the Age of Raúl, Obama, and the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors...
by Patrick Randall
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The renowned FreewayBlogger, aka Patrick Randall, tells the story of one of his earliest decision to take direct action—he hears a report of poverty in Mexico, loads up his trusty old VW bus and hits the road with half a ton of clothes, no map, some good tunes and a sense of adventure.The trip...