This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism, and imperialism.In 1935, the great...

Captain of the greatest football team in modern times in Ireland, Brian Gartland won it all in the final years of his amazing career.He was a central part of the Dundalk team that won the Premier Division title in 2014, '15, 16, '18 and '19, and did the League and Cup 'Double' in 2015 and '18. But the Dubliner, who started out on his career with Bray Wanderers over a decade before the first of those successes, had found himself running out of time as the final leg of his football l...

Brings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the warShots in the Dark offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new insights into how this crucial conflict was planned, experienced, and fought. Twelve chapters demonstrate the broad scope of wartime innovation and how the war functioned as a global turning point, driving cha...

DEADSHOT VS. DEADSHOT! Der unfehlbare Todessch�tze der Suicide Squad in seinem dramatischsten Abenteuer! Eine anonyme Nachricht bringt die Welt von Floyd Lawton alias Deadshot ins Wanken. Es geht um einen Schwur aus seiner Kindheit. Um diesen zu halten und seine kleine Tochter zu besch�tzen, legt sich der ansonsten so coole Killer sogar mit seiner �Vorgesetzten� Amanda Waller und seinen Teamkameraden von Task Force X an. Doch dann bringt Waller einen neuen Deadshot ins Spiel � einen gnaden...

An alleged victim of the Son of Sam shares his search for the truth about who really tried to kill him in this true crime story.In 1976, a killer who called himself "The Son of Sam" shot and killed a half dozen people and wounded as many more in New York City. During his crime spree, the madman left bizarre letters mocking the police and promising more deaths.After months of terrorizing the city while garnering front-page headlines and international attention...

Described as “a photographic discovery of the century”, this eBook based on the documentary of the same name uncovers the remarkable story of Lance Corporal George Hackney, the British soldier who took his camera to fight in the battlefields of the Western Front during World War I. Read how his wartime experiences fuelled an unlikely moral quest that was to change his life forever.

A collection of three crime fiction series starter novels by Brian L. Porter, Doug Lamoreux & Stuart Field, now available in one volume!A Mersey Killing: In 1961 Liverpool, a group of aspiring musicians chase their dreams amidst the burgeoning Swinging Sixties. Meanwhile in 1999, skeletal remains discovered in the docklands ignite an investigation that spans generations. Detective Inspector Andy Ross and Sergeant Izzie Drake navigate a journey through time, delving...

The captivating, utterly improbable but ultimately true story of one man’s quest to solve sports’ greatest mystery: What happened to the most famous of all home-run balls–the holy grail of sports?October 3, 1951. Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit the most dramatic home run in the history of baseball. The moment occurred in the bottom of the ninth inning of a sudden-death playoff game between the New York Giants and their arch rivals from Brooklyn, the Dodgers. People across th...

This is Brian and his dad in elk camp in the Ukiah unit in 2017. Its 7 degrees and still they have smiles on their faces. They didn’t get an elk that year but they did get this picture together.

The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy.Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a senior Nazi and a true believer, Ludwig escapes the unfolding catastrophe by withdrawing into nature and books. Eventually, when the Allied bombing campaign intensifies, Ludwig is sent to a Hitler Youth camp, where his oddness makes him a targe...

Als Luke Cage, Iron Fist und Daredevil einen Nachtclub voller Gangster aufmischen, schaffen sie sich damit einen mächtigen Feind. Der kennt keinerlei Skrupel und schickt auf seinem Rachefeldzug nicht nur Jessica Jones ins Krankenhaus! Was, wenn die heldenhaften Defenders in dieser brutalen Schlüsselfigur aus Lukes Vergangenheit einen Gegner gefunden haben, den sie nicht einmal gemeinsam bezwingen können. Doch auch der Punisher, Wilson Fisk und Ben Urich sind involviert in diese gnadenlose ...

Stories of the wondrous and secret lives of kids fromAnya Martin • Eden Royce • Nemma Wollenfang • Premee Mohamed • Laurie Tom • DaVaun Sanders • Abie Ekenezar • Clinton J. Boomer • Brian Hugenbruch • Haralambi Markov • Ada Hoffmann • Malon Edwards • Eliza Chan • Damien Angelica WaltersSo you know, strange kids doing strange things, the secret goings-on of youth. There's some monster hunting, rewriting of reality, fighting with parents, a secret mystical fi...