Keith: 3326 books
Search and Destroy
The Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron in Vietnam: 1-1 Cav, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Armored Division, deployed to Vietnam from Fort Hood, Texas, in August 1967. Searchand Destroy covers the 1/1’s harrowing first year and a half of combat in the war’s toughest area of operations: I Corps. The book takes readers into the savage...
by Keith Rosenkranz
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
During Operation Desert Storm, Captain Keith Rosenkranz piloted his F-16 "Viper" in 30 combat missions. Here he recounts these experiences in searing, "you-are-there" detail, giving readers one of the most riveting depictions ever written of man and machine at war.
by Zara S. Steiner, Keith Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever.
While...
Mountain of the Dead
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Dyatlov Pass incident resulted in nine unsolved, mysterious deaths; Keith McCloskey attempts to decipher the bizzare events that led up to that night and the subsequent aftermathIn January 1959, 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north...
Death Valley
The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
From a dedicated chronicler of the Vietnam War comes a vivid, insightful, grunt-level campaign history set against the backdrop of the troop withdrawal and the upheavals in American society.
“The sounds and smells of the battlefield almost leap out from the printed page.”—Maj. Gen....
by Keith Dorricott
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Bible teacher Keith Dorricott surveys 2,000 years of Christianity and church history and explains how the important pattern that was set out in the New Testament in the early church as to how God wanted to be served, was gradually lost over the succeeding centuries. He goes on to discuss how the...
by Keith Wailoo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation...
Tommy in the Family
First World War Family History and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Genealogist and historian Keith Gregson takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of World War I family stories, from the heart-warming to the tear-jerking. The entries tell the story behind each discovery and then offers an insight into how the researcher found and followed up their leads. They reveal...
Across the Bloody Chasm
The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant -- and sometimes conflicting -- movement for reconciliation.
Though former soldiers from...
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by Keith Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the War in North Africa Illustration Pack – 112 photos/illustrations and 21 maps.
Few records of war are a lucid, vivid and sensitively written as Keith Douglas’ “Alamein to Zem Zem”. The author himself was a man of great poetic gifts who had established himself as a leading...
When the Odds Were Even
The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In three months of savage fighting, the U.S. Seventh Army did what no army in the history of modern warfare had ever done before–conquer an enemy defending the Vosges Mountains.
With the toughest terrain on the Western Front, the Vosges mountain range was seemingly an impregnable fortress,...
Spycraft
The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
An unprecedented history of the CIA's secret and amazing gadgetry behind the art of espionage
In this look at the CIA’s most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible, Spycraft tells gripping life-and-death stories about a group of spytechs—much of it never previously...
Hard Road West
History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
In 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West....
by Keith Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book, originally published in 1981, tells the story of the regular soldiers and reservists of the British Expeditionary Force (B. E. F.) who fought in the first six months of the First World War on the Western Front. This photographic history of the B. E. F. is unique in that the photographs...