Michael Green: 119 books
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The German Army used tanks to devastating effect in their Blitzkrieg campaigns during the early years of the Second World War and in the intense defensive battles leading up to final defeat in 1945. It may be a surprise to many that the Japanese Army had more tanks than Nazi Germany in 1938; these...
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens
Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were...
by Michael Green,James D. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce...
Bike NYC
The Cyclist's Guide to New York City
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
With an average of 236,000 New Yorkers biking per day, Bike NYC is the definitive guide to bicycling culture in the city’s fastest growing mode of transportation from the authors of the popular BikeBlogNYC.com. Part guidebook, photo essay, history and human-interest story, this book offers instructions...
War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944
Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
D-Day, June 6, 1944: it was the biggest amphibious operation in history. German Field Marshal Rommel, declared, "the enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield," the Allied Forces undertook a massive invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy, France. First,...
by Theda Perdue, Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the complex...
Patton's Third Army in World War II
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, but Eisenhower placed him in command of a decoy unit, the First U.S. Army Group. Nearly seven weeks after D-Day, Patton finally got his chance to take Third Army into battle. He began a ten-month rampage across France, driving through Germany...
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This book is a collection of the finest mystical writings of the great physicists of the 20th Century. They are Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, Eugene Wigner, David Bohm, and Freeman Dyson. The essays are...
Lies, Lies, Lies
Exposing myths about the real Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The public are inundated with untruths about Jesus of Nazareth, the greatest figure in human history and the one by whom we date everything. Sometimes these truths emerge from the media and sometimes from specific assaults on Jesus by special interest gro
War Stories of the Infantry
Americans in Combat, 1918 to Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
"I love the infantry," famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle said, "because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without."
This...
Battleships of the United States Navy
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the Spanish-American War and the ‘Great White Fleet’s’ circumnavigation of the world, US battleships played only a minor...
Shared Parenting
Raising Your Child Cooperatively After Separation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In this practical book, two experts provide straightforward co-parenting advice to parents facing separation or divorce who wish to pursue the shared parenting approach. Drawing on their extensive experience and research, the authors emphasize the importance of children having significant time with...
Combat Aircraft of the United States Air Force
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
When the United States Army Signal Corps created the Aeronautical Division in August 1907, it had a mission ‘to take charge of all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred matters.’ That small inconsequential portion of the US Army would grow progressively over...
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
From family life in a coal mining village to political intrigue in the city, the story moves through the industrial turmoil of the late 1940's to highly placed crime and corruption in the 1950's. At home, Gordon and Grace face struggle and tragedy. In the city, their two sons attain high office: Bruce,...