Daniel: 11127 books
The Guerrilla Hunters
Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors...
by Daniel L. Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture?...
The Burden of Guilt
How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).
The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European...
Braddock's Defeat
George Washington and the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
This is the story of one of the biggest Indian victories over whites in the history of North America. The French and many different Indian tribes decisively defeated a much larger British army led by General Edward Braddock in 1755 in western Pennsylvania, during the French and Indian War. Among the...
The First Modern Jew
Spinoza and the History of an Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's...
by Daniel Walker Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of the most precious liberties Americans have always...
by Daniel O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism’s founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O’Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This story began as a study of lofting or tossing nuclear weapons, known as"LABs," for Low Altitude Bombing system. I became fascinated with the notion of using the prop-driven Skyraider for this purpose, and the story evolved into an account of what it would have been like to drive this...
by Daniel Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
In "Mister Barnes or Mister Noble?" a timid woman stands up to an overbearing man who is harassing her lifelong friend.
In "The Bear in the Mimosa Tree," two children, out of boredom, seek out the "crazy man" in the neighborhood.
Screenwriters launch a sneaky...
A Colony Sprung from Hell
Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744-1794
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The early settlement of the region around Pittsburgh was characterized by a messy collision of personal, provincial, national, and imperial interests. Driven by the efforts of Europeans, Pennsylvanians, Virginians, and Indians, almost everyone attempted to manipulate the clouded political jurisdiction...
A High Price
The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's founding in 1948, Daniel Byman charts...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.
The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically,...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Sixteen-year-old Robinson Crusoe lives to regret the day he ignored his fathers advice and ran away to sea. Captured by pirates, young Robinson is shipwrecked and marooned alone on a deserted tropical island. After surviving on his own for many years, he is shocked to discover a mysterious footprint...
A Trilogy of Island Adventures
Robinson Crusoe, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Treasure Island
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This Halcyon Classics ebook contains three classic stories of shipwrecks and marooning, and adventure. These are ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe (including THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE), THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON by Johann David Wyss, and the classic pirate tale TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson. Includes and active table of contents for easy navigation.