Douglas: 4895 books
Thunder in the Argonne
A New History of America's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector -- the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River...
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...
The Means
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Part Primary Colors, part House of Cards, The Means is a “compelling psychic drama” (Forbes.com) and a “tale of political intrigue” (The Free Lance-Star) that takes you deep into high-stakes politics where everyone has something to hide.
Tom Pauley is a conservative trial attorney in...
Valour at Vimy Ridge
The Great Canadian Victory of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 saw Canadian troops storm a 14-kilometre long escarpment that was believed to be impregnable. This was the first time in Canada�s history that a corps-sized formation fought together as a unit under its own leadership. Canadian troops persevered under heavy...
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and highlights of the general’s military career, from his stunning accomplishments in the Mexican...
Lee's Lieutenants Third Volume Abridged
A Study in Command
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who...
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).
Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman...
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of...
Fort Bowie, Arizona
Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Fort Bowie, in present-day Arizona, was established in 1862 at the site of the famous Battle of Apache Pass, where U.S. troops clashed with Apache chief Cochise and his warriors. The fort’s dual purpose was to guard the invaluable water supply at Apache Spring and to control Indians in the developing...
The Wars of Reconstruction
The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.
By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after...
Thunder at the Gates
The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of...
by G. Douglas Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Author G. Douglas Ward was sworn in as a police officer in the small North Carolina town of Tarboro at the age of twenty-one. He was about to embark on a ten-year career that he would never forget.
In this collection of memoirs, he shares his recollections about adventures that will leave you...
Sedan 1870
The Eclipse of France
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
The Franco-Prussian War was a turning point in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, and the Battle of Sedan was the pivotal event in that war.
For the Germans their overwhelming victory symbolized the birth of their nation, forged in steel and tempered in the blood of the common enemy....
The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...