Alan Axelrod: 44 books
by H. Paul Jeffers, Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a shot during WWII and led no troops into battle—his brilliance was purely strategic and diplomatic, and incredibly effective. He was responsible for the building, supplying, and, in part, the...
by Alan Axelrod PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The compact history of a giant country.
American history is one of those subjects that students frequently labor over and can seem like a random collection of names, dates, and events. Understood as a collective biography and free of the cheerleading found in many text books, the fully updated...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I
Comprehensive Coverage of the Twentieth Century’s First Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
You're no idiot, of course. You know that World War I was the Great War, and you're familiar with its images; muddy trenches, poison gas, and a no-man's land of craters and barbed wire.
But when it comes to understanding its causes, why it dragged on for four years, and how it set the stage...
Charles Brockden Brown
An American Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale is the first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critic Leslie Fiedler has dubbed "the inventor of the American writer." The author of Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Ormond, and Edgar Huntly, Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)...
America Out Loud
The Most Inspirational, Irreverent, Intelligent, Ignorant, Influential, and Important Things Americans Have Ever Said—and the Stories Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
"Give me liberty or give me death." "Houston, we have a problem." "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." American ears ring with these and hundreds of other declarations, spun out of history. Walt Whitman claimed to "hear America singing," but, mostly, we hear America talking. Out loud....
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidency
Get Inside the Minds of the Men Who Have Held and Shaped Our Nation’s Highest Office
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
From George Washington to George W.
In the course of the 2008 presidential campaigns, Americans became involved in the political process at a level rarely seen in modern history. But even before the historic race, George W. Bush's tenure had left many Americans wondering how we got to where...
Full Faith and Credit
The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What is the national debt? Who loses from it? Who profits from it? Why is it a greater threat to America than international terrorism? In direct, non-partisan language, this book follows the money and finds the answers.Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist . . . Each has...
The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter
Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems explores the rich vocabulary of gangsters, hipsters, jazz musicians, and military personnel of the 1930s and ’40s. Entries include definitions, etymology, and examples of usage. This delightful...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
The Real Language of the Modern American Military
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
An Alpha-to-Zulu guide to the complex and colorful slang used by the United States armed forces.
Soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen have over centuries come up with words, phrases, and acronyms to express everything from raw emotion to complex technology. The military is both a distinctive...
Nazi Germany
History Examined
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Understand the rise of a dangerous ideology.
There is renewed interest in the Nazi Party that ruled Germany as a fascist state from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. However, the events that led to the rise of Nazism-and the near victory of the Axis Powers in World War II-date...
by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Mercenaries have been active in battle from the beginning of military history and, as private armies and military support firms, they are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation—all...
by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
General Patton said, “The soldier is the army.” This book says, “People are the war.” And even World War II – a conflict of unprecedented scope, magnitude, complexity, and devastation – was the work of individual political leaders, commanders, heroes, and villains. Here are the 30 people...
by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
offensive to be waged against Germany even as France poured incredible numbers of men into the slaughterhouse that was the desperate defense of Verdun.
élan vital” of the French people, a quality, he argued, that set the Gallic race apart from the rest of the world.
French losses were just under...
by Alan Axelrod, author of "Generals South, Generals North"
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany’s Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western...