Barry: 2877 books
The Last Warrior
Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Beyond the political typology it embodies, Syria also provides the best case study of what has happened in the Arab world, and thus in the Middle East, during the last half-century. When it gained independence, Syria was a democratic country with a seemingly bright future. Blessed with fertile land...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Syria has long presented a serious problem for the Middle East region and U.S. policy. With its mix of competing religious and ethnic groups, radical ideologies, and political repression, it is a 72,000-square-mile time bomb waiting to go off. Yet surprisingly, very little is known about this country...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Following the Victory of Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979 and the murder of Egypt’s President Anwar al-Sadat in 1981, many studies were undertaken and published on radical Islamic fundamentalist movements in the Middle East. Given these events, that research stressed the importance of such groups,...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
This book foresaw the “Arab Spring” of 2011. It was obvious years before that the old Arab nationalist dictatorships had failed and were being challenged by two forces: liberal democracy advocates and revolutionary Islamists. While the Long War for Freedom focuses on the moderates, it also, by...
September Evening
The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace: Werner Voss
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The true story of the daredevil flying ace who rivaled the Red Baron, with photos included.
This is the first full-length biography of nineteen-year-old Werner Voss, a legend in his lifetime and the youngest recipient of the Pour le Mérite, Germany’s highest award for bravery in WWI. At the...
by Barry Hannah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin).
One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American...
by Barry Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2011
On October 15, 1942 the destroyer USS Meredith, escorting the tug USS Vireo, towing a barge loaded with fuel and ammunition desperately needed by the troops on Guadalcanal, was attacked by Japanese aircraft carrier planes. When the attack seemed imminent, the crew of the lightly armed Vireo was transferred...
The Battle of Salamis
The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia...
Gridiron Glory
The Story of the Army-Navy Football Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Consistently ranked among the top ten college football rivalries by fans and pundits alike-and often ranked among the top five-the annual Army-Navy game is the one rivalry that, as one commentator has noted, "stops the most powerful men and women in the world in their tracks for one day a year." It...
A Viable Suspect
The Story of multiple murders and how a police force's reach proved too short for Canada's most notorious cold case.
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter early in his career might be responsible for a string of unsolved murders of young women in Ontario, including the 1959 death of 12-year-old Lynne Harper. The...
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871 Volume 1: The Campaign of Sedan
The Campaign Of Sedan. Helmuth Von Moltke And The Overthrow Of The Second Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
In the first part of this comprehensive all-new two-volume military history of the Franco-Prussian War, Quintin Barry presents a detailed account of the war against the French Imperial Army waged by the armies of the German Confederation, directed by that supreme military mind, Helmuth von Moltke.
The...
The Lost Fleet
The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.
Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean...
Outpost of Occupation
The Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler’ s plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed: in July the Germans invaded.
The...