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  • Alexander the Great

    Lessons from History's Undefeated General

    by Bill Yenne ...
    Series series World Generals Series
    This biography of the celebrated Greek king "provides today's leaders with examples of leadership that transcend the centuries" ( Military Review ).Foreword by General Wesley K. ClarkWhen the Oracle of Delphi told Alexander the Great that he was invincible, it was right.The son of the great King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was educated by Aristotle and commanded a wing of his father's... ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts

    Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS

    by Bill Yenne ...
    A history of Nazi Germany's SS and its leader examining the groups mystical cult aspects and Himmler's rise through the ranks of power.Hitler's Nazi Party, at its evil roots, embraced a bizarre interpretation of ancient European paganism, blending it with fragments of other traditions from sources as diverse as tenth-century Saxon warlords, nineteenth-century spiritualism, and early-twentieth ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aces High

    The Heroic Saga of the Two Top-Scoring American Aces of World War II

    by Bill Yenne ...
    Capturing the hearts of a beleaguered nation, the fighter pilots of World War II engaged in a kind of battle that became the stuff of legend. They cut through the sky in their P-38s to go one-on-one against the enemy—and those who survived the deadly showdowns with enough courage and skill earned the right to be called aces. But two men in particular rose to become something more. They became ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Glacier National Park

    by Bill Yenne ...
    Series series Images of America
    Glacier National Park is a majestic million acres of towering mountains, ancient glaciers, and amazing biodiversity. Located astride both the Continental Divide and Hudson Bay Divide, Glacier contains Triple Divide Peak, the only point in North America from which the waters drain into three oceans. The land that George Bird Grinnell called the �Crown of the Continent� and that John Muir described ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • San Francisco Beer

    A History of Brewing by the Bay

    by Bill Yenne ...
    The story of beer in San Francisco is as old as the city itself. San Francisco had its first commercial brewery by 1847, two years before the gold rush, and went on to reign as the major brewing center in the American West through the nineteenth century. From the 1930s to the early 1950s, iconic San Francisco-based breweries Lucky and Acme owned the statewide California market. In the 1960s, Fritz ... Read more

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  • Going-to-the-Sun Road

    by Bill Yenne ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Going-to-the-Sun Road is rightfully recognized as one of the most spectacular alpine highways in the world and certainly among those in the United States. The landscape is one of peerless beauty, but the road itself is an engineering masterpiece. In 1910, Glacier National Park was created in that million-acre swath of mountains, lakes, and glaciers that the great naturalist George Bird ... Read more

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  • San Francisco's Noe Valley

    by Bill Yenne ...
    Series series Images of America
    Named for Jose de Jesus Noe, San Francisco's last Mexican mayor, Noe Valley is undoubtedly one of San Francisco's favorite neighborhoods and certainly one of the most picturesque. Yet the area has a rich and varied history reaching far beyond the lovely buildings and lively street scenes familiar to so many citydwellers. Originally part of the Rancho de San Miguel land grant, the area was ... Read more

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  • The Other Custers

    Tom, Boston, Nevin, and Maggie in the Shadow of George Armstrong Custer

    by Bill Yenne ...
    Not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died at the Little Bighorn—and so did their only sister's husband.Most do not realize that not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died with the 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Bighorn in 1876. So too did their nephew and the husband of their only sister. Less than half the immediate Custer family would survive the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Operation Cobra and the Great Offensive

    Sixty Days That Changed the Course of World War II

    by Bill Yenne ...
    THE BEGINNINGS OF VICTORYShortly after the D-Day invasion, the Allied forces in Europe had stalled. A limited operation was set in motion to punch a small hole in the enemy defenses, starting on July 25, 1944. It was called Operation Cobra, and it would become one of the greatest offensives in all of military history.In the sixty days following the launch of the operation, the Allies -- commanded ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Operation Long Jump

    Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History

    by Bill Yenne ...
    In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched “Operation Long Jump,” an intricate plan to track the Allied leaders in Tehran ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Ones Who Got Away

    Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe

    by Bill Yenne ...
    A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away.To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and luck. Those who were shot down and evaded capture needed all of that and more if they were to make it back to friendly lines. These are their stories. Each ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Panic on the Pacific

    How America Prepared for the West Coast Invasion

    by Bill Yenne ...
    The aftershocks of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were felt keenly all over America—the war in Europe had hit home. But nowhere was American life more immediately disrupted than on the West Coast, where people lived in certain fear of more Japanese attacks. From that day until the end of the war, a dizzying mix of battle preparedness and rampant paranoia swept the states. Japanese ... Read more

    $9.99 USD