Steven: 5874 books
A Strange Journey
I Astrologer
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
The Hudson River waterfront gave birth to notorious baby gangsters, The River Gang. Steven Joseph Sinopli was amongst the chosen few, learning loyalty and respect at a tender age. His involvement with The River Gang would prove to be a precursory magnet for trouble, as his involvement tested Sinopolis...
Einstein
His Space and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven by strong moral...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Poland was the first of the Allied nations to succumb to German aggression in the Second World War, but by the most tortuous of routes her army managed to remain in the field through all five years of bloody fighting. Polish soldiers fought in nearly every major campaign in the European theatre, and...
Battle of the Bulge 1944 (1)
St Vith and the Northern Shoulder
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. The Ardennes fighting was Hitler's last gamble on the Western Front, crippling the Wehrmacht for the remainder of the war. In the first of two volumes on the Ardennes campaign Steven Zaloga details...
by Steven A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe's major centers of trade and commerce. In Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528, Steven Epstein has written the first comprehensive history of the city...
50 Children
One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States—for readers of In the Garden of...
Tea Sets and Tyranny
The Politics of Politeness in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Even as eighteenth-century thinkers from John Locke to Thomas Jefferson struggled to find effective means to restrain power, contemporary discussions of society gave increasing attention to ideals of refinement, moderation, and polished self-presentation. These two sets of ideas have long seemed separate,...
by Steven Heighton
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
From internationally acclaimed and Governor General’s Award-winning author Steven Heighton comes a passionate novel of buried secrets, the repercussions of war and finding love among the ruins
Elias Trifannis is desperate to belong somewhere. To make his dying ex-cop father happy, he joins...
Tides of War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Narrated from death row by Alcibiades’ bodyguard and assassin, a man whose own love and loathing for his former commander mirrors the mixed emotions felt by all Athens, Tides of War tells an epic saga of an extraordinary century, a war that changed history, and a complex leader who seduced a nation.
Brilliant...
The Stuff of Thought
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
**This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now.
"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
--The New York Times Book Review**
Bestselling author...
Nothing but Victory
The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and...
Omar Nelson Bradley
America's GI General, 1893-1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
When Omar Nelson Bradley began his military career more than a century ago, the army rode horses into combat and had less than 200,000 men. No one had heard of mustard gas. At the height of his career, Bradley (known as “Brad” and “The GI’s General”) led 1.23 million men as commander of...
The Queen (The Bowers Files Book #5)
A Patrick Bowers Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
While investigating a double homicide in an isolated northern Wisconsin town, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers uncovers a high-tech conspiracy that twists through long-buried Cold War secrets and targets present-day tensions in the Middle East.
In his most explosive thriller yet, bestselling...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Japanese Army used tanks to great effect in the build-up to World War II. Inspired by European designs, in the 1920s and 1930s an innovative Japanese tank program facilitated their campaigns in China prior to the Pacific War. During the ensuing war against the Allies tanks were deployed imaginatively...