Arcadia Press: 85 books
by Holland M. Smith, Percy Finch
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The aim of this book is twofold: first, that due credit be given to a gallant body of men, the United States Marine Corps, who in their path across the Pacific were faithful to their traditions and to their country; second, to point out the errors that were committed in World War II in such a manner...
Sink 'Em All
Submarine Warfare in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Sink ’Em All, was originally published in 1951 by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the U.S. Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War II. Lockwood, in his leadership role, knew the skippers and crews of the submarines, and retells their wartime successes and tragedies with...
Command Missions
A Personal Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Command Missions is a fascinating account of Truscott’s journey through the Second World War, in which he recounts his fellow soldiers’ exploits, the co-operation and at times tense relationships between various Allied commanders, as well as intricate details of the battles that the American forces...
by Milton Shulman
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
Milton Shulman (1913 – 2004) was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic.
After the phoney war period Shulman signed up for the Canadian army, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Canadian Armoured Corps and posted to England in June 1943. Stationed in London as a captain he was assigned...
Dark December
The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The Battle of the Bulge, first published in 1947 as Dark December, is a detailed account of the German Army's last major offensive of World War II.
Presented from both Allied and German viewpoints, the book examines events leading up to the offensive, the massive engagement of German forces against...
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, cyclone Covey
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490/1492 – Seville, c. 1557/1558/1559/1560) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer...
by Frank Winch
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
The book features alternating chapters about William Buffalo Bill Cody and Maj Gordon Lillie known as Pawnee Bill. Both starred in the Wild West Show where Winch the author was the chief publicity agent.
Condition Red
Destroyer Action in the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
“Condition Red” was an expression that we used to indicate the imminence of any type of engagement. Aboard the G it was a colloquialism that served to express the conviction that the next few hours or days or weeks were going to be packed with action. We first heard it soon after we arrived in...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.
The book is much less a Davis memoir than...
by Julia Cantacuzène
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzène Spiransky, Princess Cantacuzène, Countess Spiransky (6 June 1876 – 4 October 1975), was an American author and historian. She was the eldest child of Frederick Dent Grant and his wife Ida Marie Honoré, and the first grandchild of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President...
Brigham's Destroying Angel
Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
This is the autobiographical account of Bill Hickman, Chief of the Destroying Angels, Head Danite, etc. After Mr. Beadle began to examine the history of the Mormon church; and while all the Mormon people spoke of Bill Hickman as a desperately bad man, and guilty of untold murders, he was struck by...
by John D. Whidden
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
**John D. Whidden started out at sea in 1834, at the age of twelve, and did not retire until 1870. **
This is his account of over a quarter-century spent on the high seas.
Orphaned at five, nothing held Whidden back from embarking on sea life seven years later. Serving as an apprentice,...
A Brave Black Regiment
The History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
In January 1863 the Union War Department authorized the creation of "a special corps" composed of "persons of African descent"—the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. Robert Gould Shaw.
Hundreds of free blacks enlisted. When the 54th Massachusetts spearheaded...
The Cruise of the Corwin
Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of de Long and the Jeannette
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
John Muir relates the story of his 1881 voyage aboard the steamer Thomas Corwin, which set sail from San Francisco for arctic waters off the coast of Alaska in search of a ship tragically lost two years before.
John Muir (1838-1914) also known as "John of the Mountains", was a Scottish-American...