Gerald: 1985 books
VCs of the First World War
The Road to Victory 1918
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
By August 1918, fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of the German Army was sinking as it failed to deliver the desired "knock out blow;" and Haig found a new confidence, firmly believing that the...
by Gerald Gliddon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This is the latest volume in the series covering the final days of World War I on the Western Front from the Allied Armies being poised to capture the Hindenburg Line to the Armistice on November 11, 1918. The book opens with the stories of seven Victoria Cross (VC) winners who took part in the Battle...
Blockade
The Story of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Blockade is the heroic story of Jewish immigration to British Mandate Palestine from 1933 to 1948.It is a saga of blockades, shipwrecks, rescues, exiles, and imprisonment. The many ships and boats that participated in this struggle are detailed from the tiny sailboats to the ill fated Struma to the...
Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Dictated by Himself
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities...
by Gerald Klever
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This is a nontraditional story of the people of an Episcopal parish that was born in center city Philadelphia in 1847 not many decades after the American Episcopal Church broke with the Church of England. By distinct choice, Saint Marks founders built an Anglican church, feeling that the Church of...
by Gerald Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable...
by Peter Calvocoressi, Doctor Gerald Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
First published in 1936, Calvocoressi's and Abraham's study was the first complete account of its subject to appear in any language, including Russian, and was based on a large amount of original first-hand research. Over 75 years later Masters of Russian Music retains its power - as any study of Tchaikovsky,...
One and Only
The Untold Story of On the Road and LuAnne Henderson, the Woman Who Started Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on Their Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Beloved by both Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, Lu Anne Henderson has never told her story. Lu Anne was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality. The two married, and soon they were hanging out with a group of young would-be writers,...
Strange Nation
Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics...
My Times in Black and White
Race and Power at the New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times, this insider’s view of struggle and change at the nation’s premier newspaper reconstructs the most controversial period in the paper’s history and records how journalists reported and edited the biggest events of the...
Germany's Conquest of the Balkans
Germany's first conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
What has happened in former Yugoslavia over the past several years reaches far beyond the boundaries of that region. It is so shocking that the nations of this world would be paralyzed with fear if they truly understood! Shamefully, America is its chief architect.
In this booklet:
• The First...
by Gerald Bullett
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
An unhappy wife is found dead in her bed, in circumstances that point to murder. Her husband, Roderick Strood, is arrested and put on trial. But before this happens we have become intimately acquainted not only with the Stroods and their problems, but with the individual members of the jury on whose...
by Gerald M. Berkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material....
by Gerald Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This compelling memoir starts with a boy's journey through the early years of the 1930s: days of the rag and bone man, street lamplighters, Hercule Poirot, and in the background, Hitler. Then life gets real: at school where cane and cricket bat rule and where the mustard sandwich fills a hungry corner,...