הוצאת Westholme Publishing
הספרים של הוצאת Westholme Publishing
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The Truth Behind the Tragic Hero Who Helped Save the Union and Created the Myth of the American Gunslinger
"There was such magic in that name, SLADE! I stood always ready to drop any subject in hand, to listen to something new about Slade. . . . Slade was at once the most bloody, the most danger... |
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The Eastern Roman Empire's Attempt to Reconquer the West and Its Impact on World History
A period of stability in the early sixth century AD gave the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian an opportunity to recapture parts of the Western Empire that had been lost to invading barbarians in the precedi... |
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Lessons About Our Environment from the World's Oldest Living Things "It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; bu...
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Braddock's March: How the Man Sent to Seize a Continent Changed American History
מאת Thomas E. Crocker
The Disastrous British Expedition that Gave America Its First National Hero In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock was sent by Great Britain on a mission to drive France once and for all from the New World. Accompanied by the largest armed expeditionary force ever sent to North America, Braddock's ...
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The First and Second Sikh Wars of the 1840s were the final battles that secured British domination of the Indian subcontinent for the next century. Noted for both their brutality and sophistication in tactics--with large-scale cavalry clashes, sieges, and artillery and infantry engagements--...
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The First Modern History of the Greatest Rescue in the Age of Sail
In 1825, the Kent, an East Indiaman, set sail for India with a crew and nearly 600 passengers, mostly men of the 31st Regiment of Foot and their families. Reaching the Bay of Biscay north of Spain, the fullyladen ship was ... |
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The War Man: The True Story of a Citizen-Soldier Who Fought from Quebec to Yorktown
מאת Robert A. Mayers
An Intimate Portrait of a Real Soldier of the American Revolution In 1775, the first year of the American Revolution, Congress made an appeal for troops. The resulting army of citizen-soldiers began what for many would be more than five years of battle and deprivation. Their consolation, however, w...
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A History of the First Military Unit to Truly Embody the Doctrine of Mobile Warfare "The most spectacular fighting arm in the war."--Historian John P. Dyer on the cavalry of the Army of Tennessee While Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia prosecuted the war in the East for the Confederacy, t...
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How a Legendary Medieval Weapon Became the Center of a Thriving Social Sport
"Soar is himself a bowman and a luminary of the British Longbow Society, and I dare say there is nothing worth knowing about the yew bow that he has not learnt."--Bernard Cornwell In a tradition extending back for c... |
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Leaves from the Note-Book of a New York Detective: The Private Record of J.B.
מאת John Babbington Williams
James Brampton's Casebook, the Exploits of the First American Detective Hero
Twenty years before the Sherlock Holmes mysteries were written, a fictional New York private investigator was celebrated for his ability to solve crimes based on the principles of observation and deductive reasoning tha... |
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For more than four thousand years, the horse and rider have been an integral part of warfare. Armed with weapons and accessories ranging from a simple javelin to the hand-held laser designator, the horse and rider have fought from the steppes of central Asia to the plains of North America. Understan...
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This is a superbly written account of the battle for and burning of Atlanta during the American Civil War - the event made famous in the film "Gone with the Wind". In "War Like the Thunderbolt", Russell Bonds presents the epic story of what one observer call 'The greatest event of the Civil War' - t...
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A History of the Arms, Armor, and Individual Fighting Strategies of Medieval Europe's Most Feared Warriors
A source of enduring fascination, the Vikings are the most famous raiders of medieval Europe. Despite the exciting and compelling descriptions in the Icelandic sagas and other contemporary ... |
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What We Can and Cannot Know About One of the Most Important Battles in World History
"A straightforward and detailed narrative of the chief events of 1066 . . . based on wide reading and accurate reporting." --Times Literary Supplement Despite its pivotal role in the history of Englan... |
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The Emergence of Air-to-Air Combat in World War I When World War I began in August 1914, the airplane had already proven its worth as an intelligence gathering "eye-in-the-sky." Aircraft soon became indispensable to armies on both sides, and the attempt to drive enemy planes away began in earnest. ...
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The American Revolution (1775-1783) saw the emerging nation's largest ever co-ordinated military action against Native Americans. Although now considered as a shameful episode in America's treatment of its native peoples, this massacre of the Iroquois militant forces was a pivotal turning point in t...
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A True-Crime Thriller About the Original Attempt on President Lincoln's Life
In February 1861, Abraham Lincoln's private train steamed from Illinois to Washington, DC, where he would be inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the United States. In Baltimore, where Lincoln's train was scheduled... |
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He is America’s most famous general. He represents toughness, focus, determination, and the ideal of achievement in the face of overwhelming odds. He was the most feared and respected adversary to his enemies and an object of envy, admiration, and sometimes, scorn to his professional peers. An ear...
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The Inspiring Story of How One Woman Saved Her Family and Farm "A story of courage in the face of odds, of intelligence and energy and imagination."-- Kirkus Reviews "A remarkable record of courage and intelligence pitted against almost insuperable odds."--North American "A contr...
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Mutiny has always been a threat to the integrity of armies, particularly under trying circumstances, and since Concord and Lexington, mutiny had been the Continental Army's constant traveling companion. It was not because the soldiers lacked resolve to overturn British rule or had a lack of ...
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The Quest for the Lost Secret of the Incas "As intense and gripping a tale as the reader of adventure will meet in many a day."--New York Times Long before Indiana Jones cracked his whip, the adventure of fedora-wearing Malcolm McDougall thrilled readers with his story of lost treasure, po...
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This is the definitive study of these two key battles of the American Revolution available for the first time in one volume. Often cited as the turning point in the American Revolution, the battles of Trenton and Princeton were foremost the first victories by George Washington's demoralized troops a...
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Small Arms at Gettysburg: Infantry and Cavalry Weapons in America's Greatest Battle
מאת Joseph G. Bilby
The three-day battle of Gettysburg has probably been the subject of more books and articles than any other comparable event. Surprisingly, until this work, no one has analyzed the firearms and other individual soldier's weapons used at Gettysburg in any great detail. The battle was a watersh...
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"An excellent portrayal. . . . so intense that one has the sensation of being right there with the crowd and cheering Kelso on."--Tom Trotter, Former New York Racing Secretary At his three-year debut in June 1960, no one could know that a small, deerlike gelding named Kelso would come to do...
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