Richard: 17762 books
How Not to Grow Up
A Coming of Age Memoir. Sort of.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Comedian Richard Herring has a major problem. He's about to turn 40 and hasn't seen it coming. He's not married, doesn't have a proper job or 2.4 children. But now, finally, it looks as if the world expects him to be a grown up - and he's completely unprepared for it.
As the momentous and terrifying...
A Fist in the Hornet's Nest
On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During & After the War
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004
When war broke out in Iraq, every major U.S. network pulled its correspondents from the scene. Despite the risk, Richard Engel stayed. As our tanks entered Baghdad in April 2003, he was there, bringing the Iraqi war into American homes as a stringer for ABC news. Determined to deliver the whole Middle...
Short Black 1 The Australian Disease
On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness – Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il’s haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes...
Infamy
The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II
Less than three months after Japan bombed...
by Richard Plourde
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2014
Un jeune étudiant qui, en route pour l'université, est, bien malgré lui, plongé dans son futur. Il apprendra qu'il deviendra, un jour, père d'un enfant gravement malade. À la suite d'aventures parfois palpitantes, tantôt émouvantes et, à l'occasion, cocasses, il finira devant un choix capital…...
by Richard Utting
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
The autobiography of Richard Utting.
*"Readers of this book will be treated to a rollicking ride through Richard's various careers including the military, the law, broadcasting and service as the Mayor of a major city." *
Wayne Martin, Chief Justice of Western Australia.
Pathfinder
First In, Last Out: A Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
December 1967: Richard Burns had just arrived in Vietnam as part of the fourteen-man 101st Pathfinder Detachment. Within just one month, during a holiday called Tet, the Communists would launch the largest single attack of the war--and he would be right in the thick of it. . . .
In Vietnam,...
by Overy, Richard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Published for the first time in digital format, André Deutsch’s ‘A World at War’ series presents a collection of authoritative and concise military histories written by some of the world’s most respected military and social historians. We launch with a series of 12 titles on the First and Second...
by Overy, Richard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Published for the first time in digital format, André Deutsch’s ‘A World at War’ series presents a collection of authoritative and concise military histories written by some of the world’s most respected military and social historians. We launch with a series of 12 titles on the First and Second...
Tales From the Long Twelfth Century
The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This intriguing book tells the story of England’s great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events....
The Third Reich at War
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
**A New York Times bestseller!
An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history**
Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe...
Against All Enemies
Inside America's War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2004
"The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda....A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing...
Jack the Ripper
The Definitive Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The case of Jack the Ripper and his savage serial killing and horrendous mutilation of five women in the East End of Victorian London is the greatest of all unsolved murder mysteries. For over 100 years the long line of candidates for the bloodstained laurels of Jack the Ripper has been paraded before...
by Richard Tregaskis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
From the bestselling author of Guadalcanal Diary: The thrilling true story of the future president’s astonishing act of heroism during World War II.
In the early morning hours of August 2, 1943, US Navy motor torpedo boat PT-109 patrolled the still, black waters of Blackett Strait in the...