Paul: 2291 books

A great American story – a true American story – an intricate orchestration of themes intimate and grand: love and war, pioneers and politicians, medievals and moderns, charters and constitutions, names and blood, revolution and civil war, wealth and poverty, disappointment and determination,...

This Fourth Volume of Letters takes us from November 1915 to the end of April 1916 and plots his journey up to Poperinghe again via Cassel, Bergues, Gezaincourt and Magincourt sur Canche and his rapid promotions to Corporal, Lance Sgt and Sgt, and to the offer of a commission. In mid March the London...

On April 7th 1863. The Union Navy steamed toward Charleston Harbor with nine ironclad ships intending to intimidate the city and its citizens into surrender. Instead, the Confederate Batteries on Fort Sumter and other points along the shore dealt the Union an embarrassing rebuke. Loss of life was limited...

Buddhism, like Christianity, is split up into innumerable sects, and these sects not infrequently cling to their sectarian tenets as being the main and most indispensable features of their religion. The present book follows none of the sectarian doctrines, but takes an ideal position upon which all...

"One of the great and lasting books about Greece." —Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. This opportunity to travel through areas little-frequented by foreigners—during and...

The topic of wilderness survival is quickly gaining a huge interest in today’s society. More people than ever before are becoming both aware of and concerned due to real or potential world events, weather, and natural phenomena.  This awareness has led to a boom in survivalism, prepping,...

The priorities of wilderness survival place finding a source of potable water as third on the list of immediate necessities. This book explains the various sources of water that a person is likely to encounter, what hazards may be associated with such a water source, and provide various techniques...

This is the chapter on France from the author's A Gay History of the World/Human Male Homosexuality; A World History. A Gay History of the World has a chapter for each of the world's 193 countries and there are thus 193 chapters. The whole work can also be purchased on Smashwords.

Now you have done it! You’ve spent some quality time together and have gotten yourselves into a situation that will be with you for the rest of your natural lives!Congratulations parents to be, you are expecting! Oh gosh…Where to start? What colour will you paint the babies room? What stroller...

This is a light-hearted, hilarious insight into the minds of young men growing up, carelessly drinking to excess, doing themselves physical harm, recovering and then starting all over again. Kevin lets us hear his innermost thoughts as he pursues the lust of his grey life, Karen Fletcher. The kind of...

In nine discrete but related essays, an American writer considers the darkening arc of American life -- social, cultural, moral and political -- since November 22, 1963. The essays' subjects include (in addition to the Kennedy assassination) the Brock Turner matter, the abandonment of labor and the...

A decade in the lives of three college pals -- good boys all -- whose paths cross and recross as they approach thirtysomething still trying to sort out the little disturbances of man: the tangled webs of friendship, the wheat and chaff of profession, the gilded cage of sex, the slippery meaning of "good" in a world that isn't. (First published by Dutton in 1993.)

An American writer examines the story of his country and the story of himself and finds an unexpected braid between the two. Various sacred cows, including Lincoln and Shakespeare, are unsparingly considered, and a fresh interpretation of the constitutional realm, from the Declaration of Independence through the Civil War amendments, is offered.

There’s no family like an unhappy family, and there’s no family more unhappy than the Mackenzies, whose only daughter has married down, down, down, wincingly down. Yet there’s something more about the hated son-in law – himself an accomplished hater – to give a chill to Isabel, the Mackenzies’...