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The Captured
A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white...
The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys
Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Trial of World War II.
As the tide of World War II turned, a hitherto unknown incident set a precedent for how we would bring wartime crimes to justice:...
Full Battle Rattle
My Story as the Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier in American History
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Over 100 combat missions, 24 years as a Green Beret—Full Battle Rattle tells the legend of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam.
Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in...
Uranium Wars
The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Called "one of our best science popularizers" by Publishers Weekly, Amir Aczel now tackles the cause of one of last century's most destructive events -- the scientific discovery of nuclear power. Drawing on his rich storytelling skills, Aczel presents the fascinating and suspenseful story...
How I Came to Sparkle Again
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Set in a Colorado ski town, Kaya McLaren's How I Came To Sparkle Again is a remarkable breakout novel that chronicles three people and their journey from loss to love; heartbreak to hope
Jill Anthony spent her young adulthood in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado. But more than a decade has...
Montgomery
Lessons in Leadership from the Soldier's General
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Bernard Law Montgomery was a dedicated battlefield tactician, though a controversial one. In North Africa in 1942, he commanded the Eighth Army to a great triumph against Rommel at El Alamein, which Churchill hailed as the beginning of the end of the war. During the planning stages for the invasion...
The Race to the New World
Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The final decade of the fifteenth century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian...
A Woman's Crusade
Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American...
De Gaulle
Lessons in Leadership from the Defiant General
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Michael Haskew takes us on a tremendous journey through de Gaulle's pivotal years, his leadership of the resistance, and beyond to understand the man who remade both modern military tactics and global leadership.
Charles de Gaulle once stated, "France has no friends, only interests,"...
Fighting Blind
A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper’s post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro’s life as well....
Night of the Cobra
A Sniper Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In this enthralling new novel in the bestselling Kyle Swanson sniper series, an American warrior is called to redeem a debt of honor in Somalia amid haunting personal nightmares.
Top-ranked sniper Kyle Swanson was a promising young Marine on a dangerous peace-keeping mission in Mogadishu when...
by Frances Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China's First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but...
Carl Gustav Jung
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In this, the first full-length biography of the great Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung is remembered not only for his valuable contribution to psychotherapy and to our understanding of the inner workings of the mind, but for the enduring controversies he sparked. In Frank McLynn's capable hands,...
by Bill Yenne
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
No ancient ruler inspired more legends than Julius Caesar. Under his leadership, Rome conquered territory throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, reaching the North Sea and conducting the first Roman invasion of Great Britain. His tactical acumen and intuitive understanding of how armies work birthed...