Tom: 6300 books
by Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by...
The Father of All Things
A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
The Father of All Things is a riveting, haunting, and often hilarious account of a veteran and his son’s journey through Vietnam. As his father recounts his experiences as a soldier, including a near fatal injury, Tom Bissell weaves a larger history of the war and explores the controversies that...
by Tom O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Growing up in rural County Waterford in the 1950/60's, a time of great rural upheaval and change. The creamery, the horse-and-cart, cross-road dancing, the threshing machine - all their days were numbered. Going to school across the Mass path, thinning turnips for a shilling a drill,watching Audie...
Last Men Out
The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A “thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss” (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the “gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975” (Booklist).
In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently...
Valour at Vimy Ridge
The Great Canadian Victory of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 saw Canadian troops storm a 14-kilometre long escarpment that was believed to be impregnable. This was the first time in Canada�s history that a corps-sized formation fought together as a unit under its own leadership. Canadian troops persevered under heavy...
Never So Few
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Set behind enemy lines in Burma, this New York Times bestseller is “easily one of the best novels to come out of World War II” (Los Angeles Times).
American soldiers and native Kachin troops battle Japanese forces behind enemy lines in the Burmese jungles. But during the brutal campaign...
Splashed!
A Life from Print to Panorama
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous revelation of the events that marked an extraordinary...
Special Forces
A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
They are sent to the world's hot spots-on covert missions fraught with danger. They are called on to perform at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities, primed for combat and surveillance, yet ready to pitch in with disaster relief operations. They are the Army's Special Forces Groups....
by Tom Holland
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist...
by Dr. Tom Mack
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Situated along the Georgia border, Augusta is known for its golf, beautiful private gardens and southern culture. But its history is also brimming with strange stories yet to be told. A beleaguered German princess gave the city its name. A "haunted pillar" survived a tornado that destroyed the area...
The Heart of Everything That Is
The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
An acclaimed New York Times bestseller, selected by Salon as a best book of the year, the astonishing untold story of the life and times of Sioux warrior Red Cloud: “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe).
Red Cloud was the...
The Unexpected and Other Stories
Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In this first book in the series Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond. In Book One: The Unexplained and Other Stories, you get up-close-and-personal with characters and events involved in the expansion and development of the American frontier. These sixty-nine true stories, presented in brief,...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
by Tom Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
For the first eighteen months of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour MPs were in open revolt. The party seemed to be heading back to the early 1980s, when old-school Marxists tried and failed to take over the party, at a shocking electoral cost.
The snap general election called by Theresa...