Southern War

Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War offers a detailed portrait of life's daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War. Here, barricaded against a siege, staunch Unionists became a dangerous fifth column, refugees flooded the streets, and women organized a bread riot in the city. Drawing on personal correspondence, private diaries, and newspapers, author Mary A. DeCredico spotlights the human elements of Richmond's economic rise and fall, uncovering its significance as the South's industrial powerhouse throughout the Civil War.

We have amassed a great many top-secret files over the years and we had promised not to release any of these files for twenty-five years. That quarter century has passed, and we are now able to open them for all to learn. In this, our tenth volume, you will read about many previously unknown secret activities including the really secret, in depth conspiracy between Churchill and Mussolini and their correspondence that continued through the war – and this is what got ‘Il Duce’ and his mistress – and hundreds more assassinated by British agents.

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain.

El indeleble recuento del Che de la guerra revolucionaria cubana.

Kat has earned the loyalty of the werewolves. Now, she must fight her way to the top of the vampire hierarchy and become their queen. Can she fulfill the witch ancestors' prophecy about her destiny to defeat the looming darkness? War is inevitable, and there's another problem. Her newly restored magic is volatile and unstable. Kat must prove herself worthy of the vampire throne, but Cain Abrams's renegade faction sense her powers are unpredictable and use it to their advantage.

South Texas and northern Mexico formed a seedbed of revolt in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, two decades after he had launched his own successful revolution from South Texas, Mexican president Porfirio Díaz faced a cross-border insurgency intent on toppling his government. The Garza War, so named for the revolutionary firebrand and editor Catarino Erasmo Garza, actually comprised three concerted Texas-based attempts to overthrow Díaz: a June 1890 raid led by Francisco Ruiz Sandoval, the Garza Raid of September 1891, and the San Ignacio Raid of December 1892.

Joshua Skettleton, a narcoleptic Confederate soldier, is bat-shit crazy. The hope that he'll see his son Josh again and the friendship of another soldier, Jeb Charles, help him to cling to some semblance of humanity while the rank butchery, race, religious hatred and greed of the rich tear his soul apart and nearly destroy his body. Two separate stories intertwine in the book, that of his arrival home and his fight to remain alive in some of the most horrific battles of the Civil War - with the help of Jeb Charles. In alternating chapters, we see Skettleton's progress as he travels the ...

"A great read, and for the most part, refreshingly accurate on the sailing stuff." -Latitude 38 magazine The world was melting down with political insanity – Dylan Blake was happy to leave it all behind. Sailing alone near Antarctica in the middle of winter, she was prepared for the worst: icebergs, rogue waves, isolation. She had no idea of the dangers ahead. This science fiction suspense thriller will take you for a wild ride through unexpected waters. Dylan Blake is a female action hero for today's turbulent times, a solo sailing survivor of epic endurance. Set in the world of today's ...

From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War tells the story of several communities as well as countries such as Mexico and Cuba, to uncover the way that wars within the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico facilitated American and southern attempts to conquer Latin American nations. In the push for westward expansion that preceded the Civil War, white southerners along with other Americans engaged in violent conquest in Latin America and the American West.

Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras estrangeiras, o sociólogo e professor José Henrique Bortoluci parte de entrevistas realizadas com seu pai, que durante cinquenta anos foi motorista de caminhão, para retraçar a história recente do país e da própria família.

On the evening of May 6, 1942, hours after US Army General Jonathan Wainwright surrendered all US and Filipino forces on the island of Corregidor and other fortified islands in Manila Bay to the Imperial Japanese Army, 18 US Navy sailors from USS Quail began their daring escape to freedom. Using a 36-foot Navy motor launch, the 18 sailors, led by Lieutenant Commander John Morrill began their 2,000-mile journey through Japanese-infested waters. With only a watch, compass, homemade sextant and a few maps, it was an incredible feat of navigation.

The war crimes committed by General William T. Sherman and his men against Southern civilians and their means of sustaining life are a huge stain on the American national character. Sherman's crimes are routinely denied or minimized (by those who don't actually celebrate them), although they are as heavily documented, from Northern as well as Southern sources, as any event in history. A Legion of Devils: Sherman in South Carolina adds more very interesting original sources to the published record of US war crimes.

In the tumult of the Civil War, a Southern woman’s determination wavers as she faces forbidden passion with a Union soldier. Catey Allendale stands alone in 1862 Louisiana, facing Yankee soldiers on her family's plantation. With her loved ones absent, she must confront fear and uncertainty to survive the harsh realities of war. Lieutenant Jess Granger, a compassionate Yankee officer, recognizes Catey's vulnerability and offers her protection from a cruel superior. Despite their opposing sides in the conflict, Jess claims Catey as his own, forging a bond that transcends the chaos of battle...

The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters—a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator—whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.

“You heard me. That old Dutchman has a gold mine on Sulawesi, what else do we need to know?” Clyde exclaimed. “Are you crazy? The Japanese control that island. We don’t have a ship, a crew or any money!” Neville responded. With those words Clyde and Neville, our Coast Watcher duo, several cards short of a full deck are off on another adventure behind enemy lines in the South Pacific. Cunning and devious, they are rarely deterred at having to work outside the law. Their ability to come into the possession of large sums of money quickly is only equaled by their ability to lose it. ...

When guerrilla soldiers strike Santiago's village, they destroy everything in their path -- including his home and family. Santiago and his four-year-old sister escape, running for their lives. But the only way they can be truly safe is to leave Guatemala behind forever. So Santiago and Angelina set sail in a sea kayak their Uncle Ramos built while dreaming of his own escape.

We have amassed a great many top-secret files over the years and we had promised not to release any of these files for twenty-five years. That quarter century has passed, and we are now able to open them for all to learn. In this, our fourth volume, you will read about: missing Nazi gold, Antarctica, hiding funds for post-war use, 3rd Reich spies in the Western Hemisphere, post war “Black Boats” and much more from secret files. These files have been compiled by actual agents and spies, and released specifically to Sharkhunters. We are sure that you have not read these stories before.

NISH is a historical novel based on the life of Abraham Dionysius Chenault, a minister and physician from Lincoln County, Georgia, who lived from the 1830s-1880s. Nish, as folks called him, is perhaps best-known for being tortured by a fanatical Union general in his search for the booty from the robbery of a wagon train of gold following the Civil War in the summer of 1865. The beloved planter was an outspoken supporter of secession and a popular preacher at Methodist camp meetings, despite lacking formal religious training. After relocating to Northeast Georgia, Chenault became a ...

Luego de volver a sus raíces asháninkas, Edwin Chota combate la tala ilegal en la comunidad amazónica de Saweto hasta que unos traficantes de madera lo asesinan a balazos. Máxima Acuña, agricultora y pastora de los Andes de Cajamarca, se resiste a abandonar la que considera su propiedad pese a la presencia del proyecto minero Conga, que busca extraer oro en los mismos linderos. Osman Cuñachí, de once años, aparece bañado en petróleo en una foto que recorre el mundo y da cuenta del derrame que contaminó la comunidad de Nazareth y el río donde los awajún nadaban y pescaban.

On 440 depleted acres in Sumter County, Georgia, a young Baptist preacher and farmer named Clarence Jordan gathered a few families and set out to show that Jesus intended more than spiritual fellowship. Like the first Christians, they would share their land, money, and possessions. Working together to rejuvenate the soil and the local economy, they would demonstrate racial and social justice with their lives.