Gilbert: 2100 books
Churchill
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Written by master historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert, this masterful single-volume work weaves together the detailed research from the author’s eight-volume biography of the elder statesman, and features new information unavailable at the time of the original work’s publication....
The First World War
A Complete History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
“A stunning achievement of research and storytelling” that weaves together the major fronts****of WWI into a single, sweeping narrative (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian...
One Pan & Done
Hassle-Free Meals from the Oven to Your Table
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**The author of the runaway hit Sheet Pan Suppers expands her repertoire with easy and delicious recipes for dutch ovens, skillets, casserole baking dishes, and more. **
In One Pan & Done, Molly Gilbert shows you how to use your oven to your advantage, letting it do most of the work to...
Leader Born
The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
John S. ‘Slew’ McCain was an old–school sailor. Wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of ‘Popeye.’ He was also a pioneer in the hard–hitting naval tactics that brought Imperial Japan to its knees.
McCain graduated from Annapolis in 1906 and served...
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Tales of tank warfare from Pusan to the Chosin Reservoir, based on interviews with the veterans who were there—from the author of Tanks in Hell.
The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America (and the Marine Corps) unprepared. The Corps' salvation was the existence of its Organized Reserve...
Tanks in Hell
A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
An extraordinary slice of untold WWII history: how unproven Marines driving untested Sherman tanks turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Tarawa.
In May 1943, a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the Pacific.
Thomas Jefferson
The Apostle of Americanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Gain an intimate understanding of one of the key figures in American history in this detailed biography of Thomas Jefferson. It is virtually impossible to overstate the influence that Jefferson exerted during and after the formation of the United States, ranging from his stint as president to his formation...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
The sixth volume in the official biography: “A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement” (Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War).
Starting with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ending with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this volume in the epic...
Churchill and the Jews
A Lifelong Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment—both public and private—to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism
Winston Churchill was a young man in 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of treason...
Waheenee
An Indian Girl's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe.
In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold...
The Arbitration (Routledge Revivals)
The Epitrepontes of Menander
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Gilbert Murray translated and made available to modern readers The Epitrepontes of Menander or The Arbitration for the first time in 1945. The Arbitration is among the most frequently quoted and most famous of Menander’s plays and – being less farcical than others - belongs to his mature style....
The Day the War Ended
May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
One of Britain's most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe
May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender....