Steven: 5874 books
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
In 1945, with her fleet destroyed and her armies beaten, the only thing that stood between Japan and an Allied invasion was the numerous coastal defence positions that surrounded the islands. This is the first book to take a detailed look at the Japanese home island fortifications that were constructed...
Faithful Warriors
A Combat Marine Remembers the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Ladd’s book chronicles his experiences as a junior officer in some of the fiercest fighting of the war in the Pacific....
by Steven Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
One woman’s quest for truth reveals a dark family secret long buried in Prague’s Nazi past.
WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2015 -- Best Books in Fiction
FINALIST: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2016 -- Historical Fiction
"Imagine Stephen King wrote Schindler's...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was also deployed during the Russian Civil War and the technology traveled east into the Chinese Civil War,...
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge
The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles...
by Steven E. Woodworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Leadership and Command is a unique collection of five carefully-crafted essays by leading scholars, each dealing with an important and understudied slice of history from the epic events of 1861-1865.
Georgia historian Richard McMurry inaugurates this compendium by directing the bright spotlight...
Wicked Lewiston
A Sinful Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Lewiston boasts a tawdry, scandalous history. In 1872, prostitutes Carlotta Felis and Anna Ream appeared in a survey of Nez Perce County's wealthiest residents. To their horror, unsuspecting passersby discovered the bodies of two infants hidden under the old board sidewalk on South Snake River Avenue...
by Steven Ossie Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This is the true story of a boy shunned by his family, thrown out of the family home and forced to sleep rough on the streets of London. After three years on the streets and getting work were he could, he saw a sign. "Join The British Army". Now 17 years old he walked in to the army careers...
Deng Xiaoping
A Revolutionary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms....
Pearl Harbor
FDR Leads the Nation Into War
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.” History would prove him correct; the events of that day-when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor-ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl...
Panzer Operations
The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
German general Erhard Raus was one of the most talented commanders to fight on the Eastern Front in Russia, where he was eventually appointed to army group command in early 1945. By the time the war ended, Raus had established a reputation as one of the German army's foremost tacticians of armored...
Death and Redemption
The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but...
This Great Struggle
America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves...
The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After
Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Riding in an open-topped convertible through Dallas on November 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson heard a sudden explosive sound at 12:30 PM. The Secret Service sped him away to safety, but not until 1:20 PM did he learn that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Sworn in next to a bloodstained Jackie...