Steven: 5874 books
The 'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry
John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
On the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, hoping to bring about the eventual end of slavery, radical abolitionist John Brown launched an armed attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Among his troops, there were only five black men, who have largely been treated as little more than 'spear carriers' by...
by Harper, Steven C.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This Bookshelf Single is an excerpt from the book Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 18201844, Second Edition.In this chapter, Steven C. Harper reproduces the richest historical documents associated with the dedication of the Kirtland Temple—the contemporary writings of eyewitnesses....
by Steven D. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
From the time of Christ’s command to never swear, up to the 1650s when Quakers were executed in Massachusetts, people would rather suffer painful executions than to swear oaths. This book is for those who suspect that Christianity has not changed.If you want to understand the legalities that ensnared...
Kursk
The German View
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
The battle of Kursk, fought in the summer of 1943, involved six thousand German and Soviet armored vehicles, making it the biggest tank battle of all time and possibly the largest battle of any kind. Students of military history have long recognized the importance of Kursk, also known as "Operation...
The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns
Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The final year of the Civil War witnessed a profound transformation in the practice of modern warfare, a shift that produced unprecedented consequences for the soldiers fighting on the front lines. In The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns, Steven E. Sodergren examines the...
Spanish Civil War Tanks
The Proving Ground for Blitzkrieg
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The tanks used during the Spanish Civil War are not often examined in any great detail, and are often labeled as little more than test vehicles in a convenient proving ground before World War II. But, with groundbreaking research, armor expert Steven J Zaloga has taken a fresh look at the tanks deployed...
by Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the worlds most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara. Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith survey the extraordinary trajectory of Ches career, from an early politicization...
Founding Faith
Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed...
Inventing a Christian America
The Myth of the Religious Founding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation....
Rails of War
Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time, James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers labored at a thankless task under oppressive conditions. Nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without the men of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the Allied forces would have...
Bobby's Open
Mr Jones and the Golf Shot that Defined a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
TIMES BRITISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013
25th June 1926. Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club is hosting the world's oldest and most prestigious golf tournament - The Open Championship. A stellar field of players has assembled from both sides of the Atlantic hoping to claim victory, including...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
The Rhine River represented the last natural defensive barrier for the Third Reich in the autumn of 1944. Although Hitler had been reluctant to allow the construction of tactical defence lines in France, the final defense of the Reich was another matter. As a result, construction of a Rhine defence...
Panther vs Sherman
Battle of the Bulge 1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison between the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the American Sherman and the German Panther. Placing the reader in the heart of this battle between quality and quantity Zaloga uses a compelling account of the...
by Steven Brust, Skyler White
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
"Secret societies, immortality, murder mysteries and Las Vegas all in one book? Shut up and take my money." —John Scalzi
The Incrementalists—a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories,...