I am nothing without God and everything with him. -Ronald E. White Jr. This book provides a glimpse of the emotional and mental traumas that overwhelmed Ronald throughout his childhood. As a young man, these trials and tribulations lead Ronald down a path of addiction. This work is an evolution of the man Ronald E. White Jr. from his many defeats to his many triumphs. He has gone through these trials and tribulations with the guidance of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.S. citizens went to England and volunteered with the Royal Navy. Commissioned between September 1939 and November 1941, they fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and on a variety of fronts. While the history of Americans serving in the Royal Air Force is well known, the story of these naval volunteers has not been previously told. Most trained at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, but since foreign military service was against U.S. law, ...

Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how those meanings still influence Americans today.In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of military headstones, ...

To reconstruct or not to reconstruct? That is the question facing many agencies and site managers throughout the world. While reconstructed sites provide a three-dimensional pedagogic environment in which visitors can acquire a heightened sense of the past, an ethical conflict emerges when on-site reconstructions and restorations contribute to the damage or destruction of the original archaeological record. The case studies in this volume contribute to the ongoing debates between data and ...

The Turk and Caicos Islands were a hotbed of smuggling and intrigue in the 1970s. A broad spectrum of humanity vacationed, immigrated, or just went for the opportunity and adventure. The sailing yacht Fortunella III broke down while transiting the island group. She started her life in a Dutch shipyard. She was commissioned by a wealthy Belgium merchant and then sailed to the French Riviera. There she was placed in a private charter fleet of seven yachts, all named Fortunella, numbered 1 th...

Forty years of chartering with students and the general public has given the author endless sea stories. The original business plan, and he uses that phrase loosely, was to create a sailing marine biology school aboard an oceangoing sailboat. Pete Seeger had successfully carried school children up and down the Hudson River on Pete's vessel, Clearwater. The author had spent a short time on his vessel as a teacher and troubadour. It seemed possible that this educational platform would work i...

**“If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln.”—**USA Today**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD**Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidentsWinner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book PrizeIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leade...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.“A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light

Mystery and Sex from the very first page.He's hard as steel but smooth as velvet. Bad, Black and Bold. Strolling through the city like Secretariat to the starting gate, all bets on him. A new hero, just when you thought there were none left.Working the ten inch barrel and the three inch slit.Centurion Justice is the urban legend whom criminals fear and women hold dear. Guarding the gates of J's Ville. Standing in the gap, fighting off Hustlers and Hellhounds. Hes street sma...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidentsFinalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book PrizeIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in...

**“An intimate character portrait and fascinating inquiry into the basis of Lincoln’s energetic, curious mind.”—The Wall Street JournalWINNER OF THE BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD • From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, a revelatory glimpse into the intellectual journey of our sixteenth president through his private notes to himself, explored together here for the first time**A deeply private man, shut of...