Lyons Press: 836 books
by Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm.
The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend...
Call Sign Extortion 17
The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
On August 6, 2011—three months after members of Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden—Taliban forces took down a United States helicopter, call sign “Extortion 17.” The attack killed the Air National guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and seventeen members of...
by Department of the Army, Matt Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Whether in a temperate, tropical, arctic, or subarctic region, you might find yourself alone in a remote area with little or no personal gear. This thoroughly revised new edition of the classic U.S. Army Survival Handbook provides the information you need to survive. Widely recognized as the finest...
Words That Changed America
Great Speeches That Inspired, Challenged, Healed, And Enlightened
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
From George Washington to Martin Luther King to George W. Bush--inspiring speeches from American history.
World Atlas of Pirates
Treasures And Treachery On The Seven Seas--In Maps, Tall Tales, And Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
By combining stunning cartography with engaging and authoritative text, The World Atlas of Pirates presents the story of piracy in a completely new way. Eighty maps plot the routes that pirates followed—whether crossing the world's great oceans or pursuing their prey through creeks and bays. Colorful...
Eye of the Viper
The Making of an F-16 Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of Eye of the Viper are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six-month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each. Luke, the world's largest fighter wing,...
The U.S. Army Zombie Combat Files
From the Lost Archives of the Undead
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The shocking undead discovery of a military historian
Zombies remain popular – from The Walking Dead to Ash vs. Evil Dead, they just won’t go away
A gifty, zombie collector’s item
Authentic military design with 150 illustrations
Unearthed from a dusty Army archive,...
by Department of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
When a zombie is taken prisoner by the Army, it need not be uselessly destroyed. In fact, just as our Army trains dogs for combat roles, it has a program to train the captured Undead for combat roles. No zombie that our Army can capture will go unutilized. This is our Army’s “No Zombie Left Behind”...
Beyond Repair
The Decline and Fall of the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
From the author's Introduction:
Let me start by saying what this book is not.
It is not an attack on the men and women of the Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency, the overwhelming majority of whom are dedicated, patriotic Americans working hard everyday on behalf of...
Comfort of Apples
Modern Recipes for an Old-Fashioned Favorite
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Nearly 100 surprising and savory recipes
for a favorite fruit
The idea for The Comfort of Apples came to chefs Philip and Lauren Rubin when, after an afternoon spent picking apples at a local orchard, they looked at each other and wondered, “What do we do with them?” With the abundance...
by Jay Fullum
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Novice fly fisherman start fly tying with a predictable set of materials. Their benches are neatly arranged with small bags of elk hair, pheasant feathers, stray pieces of chenille and yarn. But eventually they find that not only are these materials more expensive than they need to be, they are also...
The Sledge Patrol
A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In 1943, a group of brave Danish and Norwegian hunters carried out one of the most dramatic operations of World War II. Using dogsleds to patrol a stark 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, their wartime mission was to guard against Nazi interlopers—an unlikely scenario given the cruel climate....
Dangerous Woman
The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868, America's Original Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The definitive biography of a trailblazing actress
who entertained—and shocked—the nation and the world
Marilyn Monroe might never have become the legend she did without America’s original tragic starlet: actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–68). In a century remembered for Victorian...
Generals South, Generals North
The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
With April 12, 2011, set to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, the time is ripe for a new assessment of the conflict's most influential and controversial military leaders. Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-four such commanders—twelve each from...