Free Press: 1051 books
Last Days in Babylon
The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's exotic Middle Eastern ways. She refused to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home. She rejected the peculiar food they ate in favor of hamburgers and beer. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago,...
The Snake Eaters
Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
WHEN A DOZEN UNPREPARED AMERICAN ARMY RESERVISTS ARE DROPPED OFF on an isolated Iraqi outpost with orders to be its military advisors, they have no idea that what they will really be doing is fighting. With no training to fall back on, this group—including a guitarist, a DEA agent, a plumber, and...
The Ballad of Little River
A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural Sou
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. "We're stuck down here being poor together" is how...
The First Air War
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
"In this fascinating book, Lee Kennett tells of (World War I fliers and) their experiences on all fronts and skillfully places them in proper context" (Edward M. Coffman, author of The Old Army"). "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation."--Richard P. Hallion, Lindbergh Professor, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Holy War, Inc.
Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil....
by Allan R. Millett
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1992
Eight scholars - Alan R. Millett, Paul Kennedy, Earl F. Ziemke, Alvin D. Coox, Williamson Murray, Brian Sullivan, Steven Ross and Calvin L. Christman - examine the methods used by the major powers of World War II to evaluate their own and their enemies' military capacity.
by Peter Maslowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
A chronicle of the frontline photographers of World War II recounts the sometimes harrowing exploits of the American Military Photographers, men armed with cameras who accompanied the Army, Marines, Air Force, and Navy into battle.
The Return
Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows in this compelling...
The Most Noble Adventure
The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that...
Tatuajes en el corazon
El poder de la compasión sin límite
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2010
¿Cómo luchar contra la desesperanza e interactuar con el mundo con un corazón bondadoso? ¿Cómo superar la vergüenza y tener fe a pesar del fracaso? Sin importar en dónde vivamos o cuáles sean nuestras circunstancias, todos necesitamos un amor ilimitado y restaurador. Magnífico y reconfortante,...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and...
Beating Back the Devil
On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening.
They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries...
Fast Movers
Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
The war in the skies above Vietnam still stands as the longest our nation has ever fought. For fourteen years American pilots dropped bombs on the Southeast Asian countryside -- eventually more than eight million tons of them. In doing so, they lost over 8,588 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters....
by Mark Clodfelter
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1989
The Limits of Air Power analyzes the American bombing campaigns in Vietnam and shows why the use of air power, so effective in previous wars, proved unsuccessful in a limited war.
Major Mark Clodfelter, a military historian, assesses the American use of air power from World War II through the...