Davis: 5083 books
by Daniel T. Davis, Stephen Davis, Ryan Longfellow
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show that many chains of events caused the course of the war to change: the Federal defeats at First Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff, the...
The Ariadne Objective
The Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The incredible true story of the World War II spies, including Patrick Leigh Fermor and John Pendlebury, who fought to save Crete and block Hitler's march to the East.
In the bleakest years of World War II, when it appeared that nothing could slow the German army, Hitler set his sights on the...
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860
A Study in Social Values
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting....
by Donald A. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Deemed "irreplaceable" by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall's leadership when he was accidentally shot by one of his own men...
Raising Men
Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time.
Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen,...
by Robert Scott Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Prior to the Civil War, Atlanta was at the intersection of four rail lines, rendering the Georgia crossroads the fastest-growing city in the Deep South. As the Confederate States formed, Atlanta was a city deeply divided about secession. By the spring of 1863, war had arrived at the doorstep of Atlanta....
by John Paul Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The first fully-rounded portrait of the man behind the Gunpowder Plot
For hundreds of years Guy Fawkes has been portrayed as perhaps too extreme a figure-a rabid, bloodthirsty Catholic who not only tried to bomb British Parliament but threatened the English way of life. This biography...
by Kenneth S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
On a warm Miami evening in 1933, a man with a pistol came within inches of altering the course of American history. Here, in this essay by award-winning historian Kenneth S. Davis, is the story of Giuseppe Zangara's attempted assassination of President Franklin Roosevelt.
by Kenneth S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
"She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned that we always call her 'Granny,'" her mother said. But her cousin Franklin felt otherwise. Here, in this short-form book by award-winning historian Kenneth S. Davis, is the story of young Eleanor Roosevelt.
Parents Who Kill
Shocking True Stories of the World's Most Evil Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
From the author of Children Who Kill and Women Who Kill, an exploration of why parents do the unthinkable
Maria Colwell, Jasmine Beckford, "Baby P"—every time a child dies violently, the public reels at the suggestion that a parent may have been involved. Carol Anne...
The Truth About Grief
The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss—a personal or national one—we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages are invoked to explain everything from how we will recover...
Hollywood Beauty
Linda Darnell and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offices. She appeared in dozens of films and won international acclaim for Blood and Sand (playing opposite Tyrone Power), Forever Amber, A Letter to Three...
Reading the Text That Isn't There
Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
by Jeff Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK The Tate-LaBianca murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and his followers (called “the Family”) truly deserves to be called a Crime of the Century. I was about ten-years-old when the murders took place in 1969, and being so young I was only vaguely aware of the events when...