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by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A Charmed Life Richard Harding Davis, journalist and writer of fiction and drama (1864-1916)
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by Richard L. Holm
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Many books, fiction and nonfiction alike, purport to probe the inner workings of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Many attempt to create spine-tingling suspense or allege that America's civilian spy operation has run amok and been infested with rogues and criminals. Not that The Craft We Chose...
by Richard Bach
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From the bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, comes an inspiring collection of short stories of being a pilot.
With perfect insight, Richard Bach captures the true esssence of flying and the magic of being in the air. Philosophical and adventurous, each story will grab you and...
Britain's Empire
Resistance, Repression and Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britain’s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule...
Julius Caesar
The Colossus of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. Richard Billows’ dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of...
Eyes on the Horizon
Serving on the Front Lines of National Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the critical four years following September 11, 2001, looks back over his career and provides a candid, revealing insider's view of the war on terror and proposing a bold new plan that will prepare America for the diverse national...
If a Pirate I Must Be
The True Story of Black Bart, "King of the Caribbean Pirates"
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
In a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He drank tea instead of rum. He banned women and gambling on his ships. He never made his prisoners walk...
by Richard Hillary
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Richard Hillary was one of the great heroes of World War Two. And 'The Last Enemy' is one of the best books to emerge from that epic conflict. A fighter pilot in the Second World War Hillary was shot down and was in hospital for some months as part of Archibald McIndoe’s ‘Guinea...
Phantom Boys Volume 2
More Thrilling Tales From UK and US Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The highly anticipated follow-up to Phantom Boys is here! Once again Richard Pike has brought together brilliant, hitherto unpublished, accounts across eighteen chapters. And now there is coverage of the Americans. So, with both British and American perspectives, Phantom Boys 2 is packed with exhilarating...
Fields of Battle
Retracing Ancient Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an incomplete or obscure record....
The Secret Army
Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The incredible story of how Chiang Kai-shek's defeated army came to dominate the Asian drug trade
After their defeat in China's civil war, remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's armies took refuge in Burma before being driven into Thailand and Laos. Based on recently declassified government documents,...
Call Sign Rustic
The Secret Air War over Cambodia, 1970-1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
President Richard Nixon could not keep American ground troops in Cambodia beyond June 1970 without authorization from Congress, which was not forthcoming. Not wanting to desert the anti-communist Lon Nol regime, he ordered top-secret, round-the-clock air support over Cambodia, and the Rustics were...
Falling Upward
A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life
In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up."...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose...