"THE GLORY AND SHAME OF WAR, VIVIDLY PORTRAYED IN A BOOK THAT IS 'ONE OF THE VERY BEST'"—F. Van Wyck MasonSuicide SquadRoss Carter was one of three men who survived the suicide stands of his platoon of paratroopers. They had a three-way destiny—to be wounded, killed, or captured. But bound together by deep comradeship and extraordinary daring, the twelve men in his unit set incredible records of heroism.Here are the unvarnished stories of ordinary men faced with the re...

Une biographie inédite, un document indispensable pour comprendre la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Les démons du ciel, autobiographie de Ross S. Carter, dépeint précisément et avec beaucoup d'émotions la vie de la compagnie C du 504 Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division.De la campagne de Sicile en 1943 à la fin de la guerre en Allemagne en 1945, Carter nous permet de revivre à travers ses yeux les plus grandes campagnes qui ont impliqués les parachutistes américains durant l...

Those Devils in Baggy Pants was originally published in 1951 by Ross S. Carter, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Carter, one of the three surviving members of his original platoon and Silver Star and Purple Heart awardee, sadly, was never able to see his book in print. Instead, the final chapters were pieced together by his brother, shortly after Carter's passing, with the help of Carter's meticulous notes.After its original publication in 1951, Thos...

In The Fraud, another thrilling entry in Brad Parks's award-winning series, investigative reporter Carter Ross must chose who gets to live: him or his unborn child.A rash of carjackings terrorizing Newark become newsworthy when one such theft ends in the murder of a wealthy banking executive. The affable, wisecracking Ross is assigned the story, but he's weary of only writing about victims of crime who happen to be rich and white. To balance his reporting,...

The Shamus Award–winning mystery series continues as a reporter's investigation into a mysterious illness leads him to a deadly conspiracy.When he hears residents of a Newark neighborhood are getting sick—and even dying—from a strange disease, investigative reporter Carter Ross dives into the story—so deep he comes down with the illness himself. With even more motivation to track down the source of the disease, Carter soon hits upon a nearby construction site. But w...

A rogue reporter investigates a grisly multiple murder in Newark, NJ, in this Shamus and Nero Award–winning mystery series debut.Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. Immediately dispatched to the scene, Carter learns that the four victims—an exotic dancer, a drug dealer, a ...

Jake Buchanan is a successful writer with an eight-year-old daughter and an imploding marriage. This flight will take them somewhere they never expected to go Jack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver?he just can't figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn't in Jake's line of work and didn't go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they've met before. As their airplane conversation dee...

The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious literature. Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dhammapada belongs to the Therevâda school of the Buddhist tradition, adherents of which are now found primarily in Kampuchea, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Dhammapada, or 'sayings of the dhamma', is taken to be a collection of the utterances of the Buddha himself. Taken togethe...

Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibili...

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners.The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon ? but only after a stay of nearly two decades.In The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian provides the first comprehensive history of the entire conflict. Malkasian is bot...

A smart-mouthed Newark reporter's tribute piece to a hit-and-run victim stirs up trouble in this humorous and suspenseful mystery by an award-winning author.Reading his own newspaper's obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday...

A New Jersey reporter investigates the suspicious death of a cop in the award-winning author's "tautly written page-turner with charm and humor" ( Booklist, starred review).As long as Newark Eagle-Examiner reporter Carter Ross turns in his stories on deadline, no one bats an eye at his late morning arrivals in the newsroom. So it's an unpleasant surprise when he's awakened at 8:38 a.m. by a phone call from his boss, telling him a local policeman wa...