Stanley: 2315 books
Foundations of Korean Martial Arts
Masters, Manuals & Combative Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Most of what are referred to as Korean martial art styles are actually derived from Japanese/Okinawan karate systems or find their roots in Chinese boxing. The Korean peninsula has existed as a fragile territory between China and Japan and thus shared many cultural elements...
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier
Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
With a new afterword by William Chad Stanley
Here a private in the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War narrates his adventures in the army of a newborn country.
A Christmas Far from Home
An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Mao's Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures, General...
11 Days in December
Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In 11 Days In December, master historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub tells the remarkable story of the Battle of the Bulge as it has never been told before, from frozen foxholes to barn shelters to boxcars packed with wretched prisoners of war.
In late December 1944, as the Battle of the...
15 Stars
Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to three five-star generals as its greatest heroes. George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur personified victory, from the Pentagon to Normandy to the Far East. Counterparts and on occasion competitors, they had leapfrogged...
by Stanley Gordon West
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that.
Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered...
Border War
Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle--the underground railroad, enforcement...
by Stanley B. Kimball, Violet T. Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The enduring saga of Mormonism is its great trek across the plains, and understanding that trek was the life work of Stanley B. Kimball, master of Mormon trails. This final work, a collaboration he began and which was completed after his death in 2003 by his photographer-writer wife, Violet, explores...
General Sherman's Christmas
Savannah, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Historian Stanley Weintraub, author of Silent Night, combines two winning topics—Christmas and the Civil War—in General Sherman’s Christmas, new from Smithsonian Books. Focusing on the holiday season of 1864, when General Sherman relentlessly pushed his troops across Georgia to capture Savannah,...
by Dick Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2010
Gettysburg held. Vicksburg has fallen. Now Rebel flags ring Knoxville,Tennessee. Can the ragged and starving veterans of Gettysburg climb the icy walls of Fort Sanders, to wrench the railroad hub away from the occupying Union army? Inside are New York troops who have never won a battle, led by a young...
Sitting Bull
Champion of the Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
"If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet it was Sitting Bull who acquired the notoriety and was paraded in Buffalo Bill's Wild...
Slavery
A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
This third edition of Stanley M. Elkin's classic study offers two new chapters by the author. The first, "Slavery and Ideology," considers the discussion and criticism occasioned by this controversial work. Elkins amplifies his original purpose in writing the book and takes into consideration the...
by Stanley G. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe....
Radical-in-Chief
Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
President Barack Obama surprised many voters during a pre-election interview when he approvingly noted that Ronald Reagan had “changed the trajectory of America” in a way that other presidents had not. In effect, Obama was saying that he, too, aimed to transform America in some fundamental way....