Southern War

If you're a fan of the Addison Holmes Mystery Series, you're going to love The Scarlet Chronicles! General Patton has nothing on Scarlet Holmes. She's beautiful, savvy, and smart, and if anyone can take down the Nazi's single-handedly, it's her.

Newly promoted to command of his first ship, Captain Jack Aubrey, along with his crew, and new friend and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, must patrol a Mediterranean fraught with peril but rich with rewards. A glimpse of white sails on the horizon could mean a prize to be taken – or a fight for survival.

North and South. Enemies and Lovers. Strong Southern women and the Northern men who love them. Becca McConnell. A true southern lady left alone during the American Civil War. Left to defend her family's home. When a troop of Yankee soldiers descend upon her doorstep, she faces a decision that jeopardizes everything she knows. Daniel Campbell. An officer in the Yankee army. With a troop of sick soldiers, he must rely on the kindness of a southern woman. One of the very women whose men were the enemy. Daniel never expected to find himself enchanted by a southern belle. And Becca never ...

Historians have long understood that conflicts over slavery, Constitutional interpretation, economic interests, and culture contributed to the coming of the War Between the States. Joseph Jay’s original and insightful study illuminates yet another important difference that fueled conflict between the North and South — theology. It has been more than once observed that Southern clergy were among the strongest advocates of Southern Independence. Jay shows why that was so.

North and South. Enemies and Lovers. Following a steamboat explosion, Southerner Jeffrey Couvion must make a choice no man should have to make. A choice affecting not only himself, but all those in his world, including his twin sister. He knows what he must do. What any man of good conscience would do. But only he knows at what cost. When he meets southern belle Claire, he finds not only his life in danger, but his heart as well. And everything he thought he knew about himself turned upside down. An adventurous romantic novel set against the backdrop of the American Civil War.

Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons, and each other, at the funeral of a comrade in the red dunes of the Kalahari Desert. But their scars run deep, and as the truth emerges, each man must ask himself: When serving your country, what makes you a hero and what secrets are worth dying for?

Three brothers. One Great Depression. One dreadful yet righteous war. Their lives shifted from a rural northern Minnesota upbringing to going their separate ways: to California, the skies over Germany, and the jungles of Leyte. Back home, their widowed mother had yet to recover from the loss of the family farm to the Tax Man. Her boys gone, dependent on their income, and haunted by premonitions, she faced the torment of incessant worries.

Este libro relata en detalle lo que realmente ocurrió el día que Pinochet sufrió un ataque armado mientras regresaba de su residencia en El Melocotón, a 40 kilómetros de Santiago. El ataque, llevado a cabo por el Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez , terminó con 5 muertos y 11 heridos y no logró su objetivo. Los pormenores minuciosos de la preparación del atentado, del combate con los escoltas, la retirada y lo ocurrido al interior del vehículo blindado en que viajaba el general Pinochet son el resultado de una investigación notable.

Bored with his desk job, Flight Lieutenant Harry "Flash" Rose is persuaded by his dear friend Daniel "Granny" Smith to re-join Excalibur Squadron, now flying Hawker Typhoons in the defence of the south coast of England. His success rate is extraordinary, but there is much more to Rose’s story than combat.

In turn-of-the-century South Africa, 14-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their farm by British soldiers and are being held in a concentration camp. It is early in the Boer War, and Lettie's father, grandfather, and brother are off fighting the British as thousands of Afrikaner women and children are detained. Determined to dictate their own fate, Lettie and her family give each other strength and hope as they fight to survive amid increasingly dire conditions.

Sixteen historians, all members of the Society of Independent Southern Historians, have come together to write this truthful history of America specifically for home-schooled students. Herein is a history that is truthful, concise, yet comprehensive, written especially for students of middle school and high school age and for the parents who provide guidance through the home school educational approach. The 40 student lessons in this book present 278 years of our history.

This riveting World War II escape story was published in 1943. On 6 May, 1942, hours after US Army General Jonathan Wainwright surrendered all US and Filipino forces on the island of Corregidor in Manila Bay to the Imperial Japanese Army, 18 US Navy sailors from USS Quail set out on their adventurous escape to freedom. Led by Lieutenant Commander John Morrill, the 18 sailors began their 2000-mile journey to Darwin in Australia in a 36-foot gasoline boat. The narrative provides amazing detail of the people and places they encountered on the journey to freedom.

Lou might be only 12, but she's never been one to take things sitting down. So when her Civil War-era house is about to be condemned, she's determined to save it - either by getting it deemed a historic landmark or by finding the stash of gold rumored to be hidden nearby during the war. As Lou digs into the past, her eyes are opened when she finds that her ancestors ran the gamut of slave owners, renegades, thieves, and abolitionists.

La primera historia documentada sobre el mayor atentado contra una dependencia policial en el mundo: la voladura del comedor de la Superintendencia de Seguridad de la Policía Federal en plena dictadura y el papel de Pepe Salgado, autor material del atentado, y Rodolfo Walsh, hombre clave de la Inteligencia montonera.

A storm. A rip in time. A mishap. Erika Becquerel finds herself in an impossible world. A Harvest Moon Ball in her beloved grandfather's home? As she struggles to make sense of claims that she fell into the year 1837, her grandfather's life hangs in the balance. Resigned to a life of misery, colonial man Charles Becquerel faces a life already mapped out for him. But when Erika suddenly and inexplicably appears in his life, he senses an unexpected change. Though from two different centuries, Erika and Charles find themselves in a romance that defies time itself. But will their love for each ...

Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, but Alice struggles to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed their home. To make ends meet, Alice smuggles medical supplies for the Confederacy, and she falls in love with Amanda's former beau, Colonel William Jackson. Meanwhile, two opposing armies, devastated by the clash at Fredericksburg, wait for the spring campaign on the banks of the Rappahannock River.

La verdad sobre el paramilitarismo en Colombia.

North and South. Enemies and Lovers. In a world torn apart by beliefs and battles turning brother against brother, love draws hearts together. War lands on the south's doorstep. Leaving no one unscathed. Brittany Couvion must do her part to save the Confederacy, even putting her own life in danger. She never expected to be saved by the enemy, especially a handsome officer. Brandon McIntyre fights battles of his own and will do whatever it takes to protect Brittany. But with danger at every corner, will either of them survive? An adventurous and romantic historical novel set against the ...

"I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man." Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return the South to fight for the greater cause in the Civil War.

North and South. Enemies and Lovers. In a world torn apart by beliefs and battles turning brother against brother, love draws hearts together. Sophia Martinique must raise her two younger siblings. Alone. She struggles to put food on their table. And she must find a solution to fill their bare cupboard. As Lieutenant Joshua attempts to follow his commander’s request… something involving prostitutes, he encounters one of the lovely southern belles who would do anything for her family. A heartwarming romance set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Escape into a world ripped ...