Watson: 1865 books
IMAGINES
Celebrity Encounters Starring You
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Anna Todd (#1 internationally bestselling author of the After series) headlines this unique anthology of “imagines”—the first book of its kind—stories from Wattpad writers that immerse you in a fantasy world of fame, adventure, and flirtation with your favorite celebrities.
Imagine...
by James Watson, Kevin Dockery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial member -- a "plank owner" -- of America's deadliest and most elite fighting force, the U.S. Navy SEALs.
Through three...
by Paul Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
"Intriguing [and] enjoyable." —Ian McGuire, New York Times Book Review
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the...
Affairs of State
The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In recent years, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and countless other politicians have made headlines for their sexual scandals. But such stories are not new. Indeed, there is a long history of misbehavior in politics, including in the nation’s highest...
Bread and Roses
Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving...
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
Reflections on the Neches
A Naturalist's Odyssey along the Big Thicket's Snow River
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
When Geraldine Watsons father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River by the Indians. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. So when she was sixty-three years...
by Edward Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
“The Battle of Britain – 1940” takes an extraordinary look at the heroic battle that took place in October if 1940. It was one of the fiercest and most violent battles of the war, and the fate of mankind held on by a thread. Accompanied by maps and numerous illustrations, author and English...
by Doug Brodie, James Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The mid-19th century mining town of Bodie, California located at 8,369 feet, atop the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just 3 1/2 miles from the Nevada border, was considered one of the richest gold and silver mining towns in the west. Geologists who know of its present rich ore deposits, say it could have...
by William J Watson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
William Coleman thought he was on the way to success as a bank clerk in Chester, S.C., in the spring of 1861. Then his employer sent him a petticoat to shame him into joining the militia and fighting the Yankees. He did, sure "the silliness" would end once everyone calmed down.He was wrong.
Capturing the Light
The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
An intimate look at the journeys of two men—a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist—as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography
During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution,...
by Tim Watson-Munro
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
From the author of the extraordinary memoir, Dancing with Demons
DRUG LORDS. DEVIANTS. BLACK WIDOWS. HIT MEN. RIOT GIRLS. MASS MURDERERS. PSYCHOS.
No one gets closer to Australia's craziest characters than 'Doc' Tim Watson-Munro, a criminal psychologist with 40 years' experience assessing...
Ring of Steel
Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers
For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered...
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn
An Untold Story of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war.
Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey,...