Historical & Political Biographies

Grandpa got fired and lost his pension when the steel plant closed. What was our family going to do now? He always told us a union pension was as good as gold. Now it was gone. Years later, curiosity got the best of me. "How in the world can a union pension go broke?" This long-haired country boy from a small-town, miles away from the big city got busy. Armed with a useless degree from a newly minted university, I became an amateur sleuth and began my investigation. I researched the history of our country, the workers and the power brokers of St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Phoenix and Las Vegas only to discover a money trail of Crime, Corruption and American Greed. Did I ever recover any of "Grandpa's Money"? Find out by clicking the Buy Now button!

Adolf Hitler was a German dictator who led the Nazi Party to power in Germany in the 1930s. He was responsible for the deaths of millions of people, including Jews, homosexuals, and other groups that he considered to be inferior. He committed suicide in 1945 as the Allied forces were closing in on Berlin. Hitler was a complex and contradictory figure. He was a charismatic leader who was able to connect with the German people, but he was also a ruthless dictator who was responsible for the deaths of millions of people. His legacy is one of hate, destruction, and death. He is considered to be one of the most evil men in history. This is only a brief account of the life and career of Adolf Hitler. If you're interested in learning more about them, I recommend reading this book.

We all know that enlightened minds both in the East and the West have always made sincere efforts to untwist these intricacies though they have not yet met the target.

"In a quietly epic narrative - lashed-together from the author's life-experiences as husband and father, literary scholar, and U.S. Navy Reserve intelligence officer - Liam Corley's debut collection of poetry, Unwound: Poems from Enduring Wars, navigates with readers previously unseen frontiers in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). With care and precision, Corley's poems probe the dark, interior corners of American heroic ideals, marriage, family, and homecoming. In the collection's titular poem, for example, he delivers "a poem for the other soldiers / citizens who never fired back [...]" He writes: "[...] I see you with a yellow-ribbon wound tight around your chest, looking down when asked about the war [...]" For veterans, family members, and other citizens, Corley's collection provides a beacon of clear-eyed reflection and assessment about troubled times"--

Born in 1950 into Post War slum housing Colin Potter left school with no qualifications at the age of fifteen to become an apprentice plumber. In 1981 he suffers his first taste of unemployment due to redundancy and wants to understand why? Up to now his vision has been that of most people i.e. job, family and neighbourhood. His reading leads hi

An accurate, exciting diary-like chronicle of the day-to-day machinations of the German generals as they struggle to prepare to meet the enemy in the West.

It is a story of sacrifice, dedication to duty and honor in the face of terrible adversity, but more importantly it's a human story, one that encapsulates the finest attributes of humankind in the absolute direst of circumstances.

Hamilton McWhorter was a WWII naval aviator and the first-ever F6F Hellcat ace.

Rare first-hand account of USS Atlanta's war--including the battles of Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal, where the ship was sunk.

"The war of a young German soldier in Yugoslavia told through his diaries and complemented by the oral histories of his comrades--and the enemies he fought. On April 6, 1941, German troops along with Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian military units invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In less than two weeks the Kingdom would be defeated, setting the stage for a bloody civil war that the occupying Axis forces desperately tried--and needed--to control. Based on years of research, this book provides a distinctive account of what happened in the relatively unknown and under-researched Yugoslavian theater of conflict in World War II. Based on the detailed diaries of Gottfried Weber, a naèive patriotic teen from a small town in Saxony who is willingly drafted into the German Wehrmacht and sent to Yugoslavia for occupation duty. This is the story of an emerging adult struggling to keep a sense of youthful normalcy during war, balancing friendships and romance with his daily life in combat and trying to stay alive. But the book is more. Weber's accounts are woven into the historical record, while personal interviews from his comrades and enemies that he fought against provide the reader with firsthand accounts of the horrors and humanity of common foot soldiers in WWII Yugoslavia. Combined with an extensive number of photographs, some of which were taken by Weber, the people, land, and war that the Axis and Allied fighters were exposed to is brought to life. Weber's war-time travels are also re-traced in the 21st century to connect the past with the present, revealing that the scars and memories of WWII are still present with the peoples and land that Winston Churchill coined the soft underbelly of Europe."--

The story of how Bernhard Sindberg single-handedly saved thousands of civilians during the Japanese orgy of violence in the Chinese capital in late 1937 and early 1938.

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, an astonishing account of a childhood built on fear, of breaking from his community, and of speaking out in the face of hate

An inspiring memoir of promises kept, overcoming obstacles, and what it means to sacrifice for others, written by a Special Warfare Operator with the US Air Force.When Israel "DT" Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was orphaned at the age of fourteen, and on the night before his father died, he repeated the promise his dad had required of him: "Take care of your brothers and sisters."Throughout his childhood and into adulthood, DT indeed looked after his younger brother and sisters, even to his own detriment and sacrifice. When he enlisted in the Air Force, progressing in ranks as a skilled marksman calling airstrikes, his promise extended to his brothers and sisters in the Air Force-his fellow soldiers and brothers-in-arms.When DT was injured in action, he lay in a coma for three months with third-degree burns on 80 percent of his body. He nearly died three times, and doctors predicted-if he survived-he would forever breathe with a respirator and never walk again. DT pushed through every limit to his full recovery, and he became the first 100 percent disabled veteran to reenlist in the Air Force.DT's promise to his dad extends now to his fellow wounded warriors throughout the world as he advocates for awareness and affecting change in public policy for wounded, injured, and ill soldiers. He is a patriot who has kept his promise and changed the world with the spirit of his heart, soul, body, and mind.