The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand.
Funny, comforting and heart-warming, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand proves that sometimes, against all odds, life does give you a second chance.
The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.
... and media collaborated to produce a deal now regarded by many as a colossal mistake,” wrote reporter Tim Arango in the New York Times on January 10, 2010, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the AOL Time Warner deal.
ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER. When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND.
The book teaches its readers how to cultivate an anthropological imagination, a mindset that remains attentive to local differences even as it identifies global patterns of inequality and racism.
... Crosses were won bythe defenders of Rorke's Drift, beingawarded toLieutenants Chardand Bromhead; Surgeon Major Reynolds; Commissary Dalton;Corporals Allenand Schiess; Privates Hitch, Hook, William and Robert Jones and John Williams.
Filled with quotes from history’s biggest players—not to mention mini-bios—and lots of humor, this is the perfect book for budding historians. “This girl-power story succeeds as an energetic—and funny—against-all-odds tale.” ...
Farther up the east slope , however , Sergeant Charles Pearson and Corporal Kenneth Mertz of the First Platoon knew something nasty was up when several stray bullets punctured their makeshift pup tent . But where the shots had come from ...
This book discusses these and many other issues that all Americans should be concerned about, especially if their children are in public schools.