Smith: 13242 books
Allah's Mountains
The Battle for Chechnya
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2005
Ancient travellers called the Caucasus the mountain of languages. Greeks, Persians, Romans, Goths, Arabs, Mongols and Turks have all passed through the region; poets and artists have been inspired by its rugged beauty and yet its history is a tragic one - for centuries it has been ravaged by virtually...
Visions of Belonging
Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun—entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s....
Tatiana
An Arkady Renko Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Martin Cruz Smith's “masterful” (USA TODAY) and “irresistible” (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots among a Russian journalist’s mysterious death, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats.
Arkady...
Queen By Right
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
From the award-winning author of A Rose for the Crown, Daughter of York, and The King’s Grace comes another masterful historical novel—the story of Cecily of York, mother of two kings and the heroine of one of history’s greatest love stories.
Anne Easter Smith’s novels are beloved by...
The Last Mission
The Secret History of World War II's Final Battle
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.
How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously...
by Wilbur Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The long-awaited sequel to Wilbur Smith's worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.
An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.
Cairo,...
Starving the South
How the North Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A historian's new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry Confederacy
In April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the Confederacy for cotton and tobacco exporting as well as for the importation of food. The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while...
The Kings of Ayutthaya
A Creative Retelling of Siamese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Part fact, part fiction, part myth, and part legend, this book brings to life the kingdom of Ayutthaya from its roots in the kingdom of Sukhothai to its eventual destruction by the Burmese in the year 1767. It is the turbulent story of both the kings and their kingdom, from its birth to its downfall.
Robert...
by Elmer Boyd Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Long, long ago, when the Indians owned the land, there lived in Virginia, near the river afterwards called the James, a little girl, the Princess Pocahontas, daughter of the great chief Powhatan. Pocahontas was her father's favorite child, and the pet of the whole tribe; even the fierce warriors loved...
by Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the worlds most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara. Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith survey the extraordinary trajectory of Ches career, from an early politicization...
Not a Bad Ride
Stories from a Boomer's Life On the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
• Commune. I guess you could call it a commune: some of us were unrelated; we bought, cooked, and ate food as a group; we’d sit on the floor around a low table wolfing down fried rice, scrambled eggs, calf brains, and lungs. • The Draft. We all dealt with it one way or another. Some took cover...
Tibet's Last Stand?
The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book offers a definitive account of the origins and events of the 2008 Tibetan uprising, which began with peaceful demonstrations by monks of Lhasa's great monasteries on the anniversary of the 1959 revolt. Noted expert Warren W. Smith Jr. argues that the uprising was a widespread response to...
Long Tan
The Start of a Lifelong Battle
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2015
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist and heavy monsoon rain, amid the mud and shattered rubber trees, a dispersed Company...
by Thomas J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The golfing public and sports media are beginning to ask: Is 1 Step to Better Golf the best golf-instruction book of all time? Time will tell, but the influence of this book is already being felt by thousands of golfers throughout the world. Now is your chance to experience it for yourself.
Improving...