Wiest: 26 books
by Natalie H. Wiest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Within about seventy-five miles of downtown Houston, some 1,500 miles of rivers, creeks, lakes, bayous, and bays await discovery. Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways, by longtime paddler Natalie Wiest, is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to experience Houston’s well-watered landscape...
by Hubert Wiest
Language: German
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Bakoo will Avoca-Jockey werden. Doch der Weg in die Arena von Gazmata ist hart. Ausgerechnet jetzt möchten Bakoos Eltern sein Avoca verkaufen. Sein Bruder kommt ihm wie immer in die Quere und ein verrücktes Laikarenmädchen stellt Bakoos ganzes Leben auf den Kopf. Im ungleichen Konflikt zwischen Siedlern...
Vietnam's Forgotten Army
Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography
Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN chronicles the lives of Pham Van Dinh and Tran Ngoc Hue, two of the brightest young stars in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Both men fought with valor...
by Andrew Wiest
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
For years, Douglas Haig has been considered perhaps the most controversial military leader in British history. Today his career is at the center of a swirling historiographical debate concerning the nature of the First World War. The traditional school contends that Haig, like the majority of generals...
Charlie Company's Journey Home
The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Boys of '67 and the War They Left Behind
The human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp – the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors.
These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations....
The Allure of Premeditated Murder
Why Some People Plan to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Any murder causes pain and suffering that ripple through families and communities—of both the victims and the perpetrators—but premeditated murders cause the worst kind of damage. The Allure of Premeditated Murder is about the worst kinds of premeditated homicide in which the perpetrator plans...
Dennis & Guntram – Zaubern für Helden
Dennis und Guntram (Band 4)
Language: German
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Endlich in der fünften Klasse! Aber auch in der neuen Schule wird das Leben für Dennis Blauberg und seinen Freund Guntram Mempelsino von Falkenschlag nicht einfacher: in der Straßenbahn entbrennt jeden Morgen ein Kampf um einen Sitzplatz, der Geographie-Lehrer kennt nach Monaten noch nicht einmal...
Vietnam
A View from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Based on rich collections housed at the National Archive, the Center of Military History, and at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech, Voices from America's Failed Crusade will trace the American experience of Vietnam from the war's popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion. Being...
The Boys of ’67
Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings...
The Illustrated History of World War I
The Battles, Personalities, Events and Key Weapons From All Fronts In The First World War 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first truly total war, the ‘war to end all wars’, shocked the world with its scale and brutality. Men from both sides went to war in August 1914 expecting to be home by Christmas, but on the Western and Italian Fronts troops became locked in a grim stalemate of trench warfare. For the first time,...
by Wiest, Andrew and McNab, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The Vietnam War is a timely account of the 6,000-day conflict in Southeast Asia. The book begins with the history of South East Asia during World War II, before discussing the French involvement in the First Indochina War, and the subsequent drawing-in of the United States and its allies, Australia and...
History of World War I: The Western Front 1917–1918
From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the...
Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'. First-hand accounts, maps and contemporary photographs, analysis from the soldiers involved and new perspectives...
Lomoco spinnt
Die galaktischen Abenteuer eines himmelblauen Haushaltsroboters - Teil 3
Language: German
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Nach einem Unfall benimmt sich Lomoco ziemlich sonderbar. Können der achtjährige Fabius, seine Schwester Jella und Hugo die Endurofledermaus den himmelblauen Haushaltsroboter retten? Ausgerechnet die HX-Roboter kommen ihnen wieder in die Quere und haben noch eine Rechnung offen.
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