Holland: 809 books
Unlikely Friendships
47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ” Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in...
Dynasty
The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.
Dynasty...
Black Men Built the Capitol
Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date details
Historic sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored from an entirely new perspective in this book, with never-before-told stories and statistics about the role...
by Max Holland
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A major work of documentary history–the brilliantly edited and annotated transcripts, most of them never before published, of the presidential conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath.
The transition from John F. Kennedy to Johnson was arguably...
Black Men Built the Capitol
Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date detailsHistoric sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored from an entirely new perspective in this book, with never-before-told stories and statistics about the role of blacks...
Dinner With Mugabe
The untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once-brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends in a searching...
The Rise of Germany, 1939–1941
The War in the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
An account of the early years of World War II based on extensive new research: “A genuinely fresh approach . . . exceptional” (The Wall Street Journal).
James Holland, one of the leading young historians of World War II, has spent over a decade conducting new research, interviewing survivors,...
by John Holland Rose
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The Life of Napoleon Volume II John Holland Rose, influential English historian (1855-1942)
This ebook presents «The Life of Napoleon Volume II», from John Holland Rose. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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Dam Busters
The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The story of the British-made bombs, Upkeep and Highball, successfully dropped on Nazi dams “has never been told in such depth before” (Daily Mail, UK).
The night of May 16, 1943: Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with...
The Battle of Britain
Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A groundbreaking new account of the Battle of Britain from acclaimed historian James Holland
The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread. Historian James Holland has now written the definitive account of those months...
Conversations with Wilde
A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Imagined by Oscar Wilde's own grandson, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of the poet, playwright and gay martyr.
Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting...
Big Week
The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle...
Gay as a Grig
Memories of a North Texas Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Ellen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, that had the "motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks" and that was inhabited by a "lively, warm-hearted family." This book is her record of the "whole world of little things which enriched young lives" in...
by Barbara Holland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
With characteristic elegance and delicious wit, Barbara Holland, ("a national treasure,"-Philadelphia Inquirer) celebrates the age-old act of drinking in this gimlet-eyed survey of man's relationship with booze, since the joyful discovery, ten thousand years ago, of fermented fruits and grains. In...