Jones: 7670 books
Ned Kelly
A Short Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
'the best Kelly biography by a country mile' - The Australian
The definitive biography of Ned Kelly - and a superb description of his times.
A bestseller since it was first published, Ned Kelly: A Short Life is acknowledged as being the definitive biography.
Ian Jones combines...
At the Helm: Volume 4: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
At The Helm, #4
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.
Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this fourth collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...
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Social Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who “demands rights—not conditional favors” (The New York Times Book Review).
Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative...
by James B. Jones Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Tennessee's Civil War history is an oft-told narrative of famous battles, cunning campaigns and renowned figures. Beneath this well-documented history lie countless stories that have been forgotten and displaced over time. Discover how Vigilance Committees sought to govern cities such as Memphis, where...
Tower
An Epic History of the Tower of London
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world's busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it.
Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction...
The Venlo Incident
A True Story of Double-Dealing, Captivity, and a Murderous Nazi Plot
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
In November 1939, the Nazis used the so-called Venlo Incident as a pretext for invading the Netherlands. Following orders from Himmler, two British intelligence officers, Sigismund Payne Best and Richard Stevens, were captured from the Café Backus in the town of Venlo.
Best had been trying...
T-34
The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
It could be said that the T-34 was the tank that won the Second World War. In total 57,000 were produced between 1941 and 1945. Stalin's tank factories outstripped Hitler's by a factor of three to one, and production of the T-34 also exceeded that of the famed American M4 Sherman.
Not only did...
by Tobias Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced...
Stalingrad
How the Red Army Triumphed
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thinking of the Russian command and the mood of the ordinary...
by Patrick Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
This book is the wing-man for the novice Cuba traveler looking to get the most out of their Cuba experience. Imagine knowing all the possible mistakes, traps, and scams before you make them. Well, this book will allow you to do exactly that. Which is to arrive in Havana a quasi expert.
Pedro
The Life and Death of Fighter Ace Osgood Villiers Hanbury, DFC and Bar
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
‘I went into the cloud and went flat out for a few minutes, turned, and as I dived out my luck was in and I got him head-on. He went straight into the sea and I am glad to say there were no survivors. A Dornier which had blown up came floating down in bits and another burnt up on land. It was a...
My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known...
by A. H. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Constantine the Great was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD. As emperor, Constantine enacted many administrative, financial, social, and military reforms to strengthen the empire. The government was restructured and civil and military authority separated. A new gold coin, the solidus, was introduced...
Morse Code Wrens of Station X
Bletchley's Outer Circle
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Anne Glyn-Jones opens up the secret world of the interceptors of German Morse Code signals during World War II. Leaving her girls' boarding school with romantic ideas about joining the navy as a Wren, Anne had no idea that she would be working for the mysterious 'Station X', which we now know to be...