Robin: 3786 books
by Robin Cross
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As Chancellor of Germany between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler exercised unrestricted power over his country's social, political and economic life. Hitler's belligerent re-armament programme, his imposition of anti-Semitic legislation and his territorially aggressive policies led to genocide and worldwide...
by Robin Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
When she was a child, Renae and a boy named Patrick were friends. They shared secret adventures. They shared secret hiding places. But they never told each other about the secret worlds hidden inside their houses. Their sharing stopped one fall afternoon when Patrick walked home from school and opened...
The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology
Based on H.J. Rose's Handbook of Greek Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
This new edition is a completely rewritten and revised version of Rose's original, seminal, text. Adding a huge amount of new material, Robin Hard incorporates the results of the latest research into his authoritative accounts of all the gods and heroes.
The narrative framework of the book...
Augustine
Conversions to Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
"This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail." --New York Times
In Augustine, celebrated historian Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine of Hippo on his journey to the writing...
by Robin Lane Fox
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
"Undoubtedly the best gardening book for the past 30 years--provocative, full of information, witty and very funny" --Financial Times
An award-winning historian of antiquity, Robin Lane Fox is also one of Britain's foremost gardening experts, and in Thoughtful Gardening he takes readers...
Taken at the Flood
The Roman Conquest of Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories The 53-year...
Hunting Down Saddam
The Inside Story of the Search and Capture
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This authoritative and gripping narrative plunges the American public into the real and personal story of the United States forces in Iraq, and their successful maneuvers in capturing one of the most vicious dictators of our time.
Hunting Down Saddam contains up-to-the-minute material and provides...
Meditations: with selected correspondence
with selected correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In...
Dividing the Spoils:The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances,...
The Green Berets
The Amazing Story of the U. S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
In Vietnam, Robin Moore became on the of the first true embedded” journalists, training and fighting alongside America’s most elite fighters. Though fictionalized, The Green Berets exposed the American public to the horrors of the ground war in Vietnam, and gave the men of the Green Berets the...
by Sammi Robin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
We’ve all grown up with the magical tales of Cinderella and Snow White. They’ve shaped our ideals, but with the exception of Kate Middleton, most of us must face the fact that princes only reside in the enchanted world of make-believe,and kissing frogs is an all too often occurrence.
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by Robin Mackness
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
A True and Wholly Engrossing Tale of High Finance and Treachery in Which the Secret of a Wartime Tragedy is Revealed Through a Contemporary Drama.
On 10th June 1944, four days after the Allied invasion of Normandy, the inhabitants of a remote village in South West France were rounded up by...
by Robin Flower
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture, which was drawing to a close when Flower first came to Ireland in 1910, form a primary source for generations of scholars and readers, Celticists and medievalists. This edition...
Pedro
The Life and Death of Fighter Ace Osgood Villiers Hanbury, DFC and Bar
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
‘I went into the cloud and went flat out for a few minutes, turned, and as I dived out my luck was in and I got him head-on. He went straight into the sea and I am glad to say there were no survivors. A Dornier which had blown up came floating down in bits and another burnt up on land. It was a...