Richard Gabriel: 26 books
by Richard Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Share the Life Odyssey of the Author charting 50 years of Profound Supernormal experiences in preparation for a special task in Egypt Now following a decade of below-the-radar exploration beneath the Giza Plateau and in the Great Pyramid, accompanied by his twinflame Judith; there has been a spectacular...
Muhammad
Islam's First Great General
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier.
Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam’s first great general. While there have been numerous...
Great Generals of the Ancient World
The Personality, Intellectual, and Leadership Traits That Made Them Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered as great leaders of men in battle? What combination of personal and circumstantial influences conspire to produce great commanders? What makes a great leader great? Richard A Gabriel analyses the...
Cuentos de Suspenso y Terror
Obras Maestras de Los Mejores Cuentistas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2017
En esta colección especial, tu podras disfrutar de las obras maestras de cuentos de suspenso y terror de todos los tiempos. Grandes maestros de varias nacionalidades, incluyendo Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton; H.O. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gabriel Garcia...
13 Short Scary Stories
Masterpieces of the greatest writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Frightening stories give us the means to explore the things that scare us… but only as far as our imaginations and our experiences allow. They keep us safe while letting us imagine we're in peril. Stories, after all, are never about what they're about: there is always a pocket somewhere within them...
Contos de Suspense e Terror
Obras primas de grandes mestres do conto
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Obras Primas de tirar o fôlego! Uma seleção rigorosa de doze contos de suspense e terror escritos pelos melhores escritores do gênero: Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton; Machado de Assis, Guy de Maupassant, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Monteiro Lobato, Oscar Wilde, W.W....
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. Today scholars celebrate the importance of Hannibal, even though Scipio defeated the legendary general in the Second Punic War...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians and medics cope with arrow injuries, spear and sword gashes, dysentery, and infection without the benefits of anesthesia or modern medical technology? In this...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his failures, and disparaging his character. The charges...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Philip II of Macedonia (382–336 BCE), unifier of Greece, author of Greece's first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with a centralized administrative structure in Europe, forger of the first Western national army, first great general of the Greek imperial age, strategic and...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
In the course of his thirty-two-year reign over ancient Egypt, Thutmose III fought an impressive seventeen campaigns. He fought more battles over a longer period of time and experienced more victories than Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar did. Despite Thutmose III's surprisingly illustrious record,...
Between Flesh and Steel
A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the historical development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to modern times.Military...
The Madness of Alexander the Great
And the Myth of Military Genius
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing him as possibly the greatest general that ever lived. Richard A. Gabriel, however, argues that, while Alexander was clearly a succesful soldier-adventurer, the evidence of real greatness...
Military Incompetence
Why the American Military Doesn't Win
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1986
The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations--in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the Mayaguez, in Iran to rescue the American hostages,...
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