Chris: 8154 books
Encounters with a Fat Chemist
Teaching at a University in Northern Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On the beautiful island of Cyprus, little works as you expect it to, from the primitive plumbing to the maniacal university bus service. The American...
The Second World War
A Marxist History
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill by standing...
Doctor Wore Petticoats
Women Physicians of the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great...
The Senator and the Sharecropper
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a...
Safe: How to stay safe in a dangerous world
Survival techniques for everyday life from an SAS hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe.
Chris Ryan served in the SAS for seven years and in several war zones throughout the world. During this time he was the Regiment's top striker and in 1991 during the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission...
by Chris Heffelfinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The radicalization of Muslims and Islamic institutions in the United States, Europe, and across the Islamic world has fostered a new generation of Islamist activists, many of them willing to use violence to achieve their aims. In Radical Islam in America, Chris Heffelfinger describes the development...
At the Helm: Volume 4: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
At The Helm, #4
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.
Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this fourth collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...
Paradise Now
The Story of American Utopianism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism—and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history’s most influential utopian movements.
In...
by Chris Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1998
The British Army's Special Air Service is one of the world's premier special operations units. During the Gulf War, deep behind Iraqi lines, an SAS team was compromised. A fierce firefight ensued, and the eight men were forced to run for their lives. Only one, Chris Ryan, escaped capture or death, and...
Killing for the Company
Just another day at the office...
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and hit TV show Strikeback.
Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his sixteenth novel and it is full of all his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.
Invalided out of the SAS Chet Freeman makes his living in high-end security,...
The Sobibor Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt—with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942,...
The Presidents' War
Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them (New York Times Best Seller)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s reelection...
Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front
The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle.
By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter...
King Arthur
The Mystery Unravelled
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller.
The book brings new information to light by examining through a jigsaw of connections throughout Dark Age Britain, especially Wales and Cornwall, as King Arthur...