Howard Fast’s bestselling coming-of-age novel about one boy’s introduction to the horrors of war amid the brutal first battle of the American Revolution. On April 19, 1775, musket shots ring out over Lexington, Massachusetts. As the sun rises over the battlefield, fifteen-year-old Adam ...
Buy on Amazon eBookPaperbackHardcover John Carter of Mars: Barsoom Series First Five Books Best Seller John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs The first Five books. #1 A Princess of Mars #2 The Gods of Mars #3 The Warlords of Mars ...
truth of the situation regarding the Workers'and Peasants'Red Army under the leadership of the CPC became known to the outside world for the first time.Red StarOverChina has sincebeentranslated into over 20 languages,and has become oneof themostinfluential Westernbooks on the CPC's revolution....
In the era ofThe Little Fugitive, a boy’s world was occupied by very specific things: baseball, guns, cowboys and Indians, television serials, comic books. The premise itself feels like an episode ofLeave It to Beaveralbeit outside of the watchful eye of middle-class suburbia. ...
(1938), a Russian propaganda film about a Russian leader defeating German invaders is showing. Damn, the Commies are burning books. I thought only evangelicals did that, not a godless commie. The three boys talk to Alicia (Elan Oberon who happens to be married to the director) and she ...
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers' four flights carried them into the record books as the first to make a controlled powered flight, and established them as being far ahead of all competitors in Europe. The links below provide details and specifications for early classic airplanes: ...
Italian late-Renaissance, early-Baroquecomposer and instrumentalistMonteverdiwas the king of the madrigal, writing nine books of them, and the father of the operatic form as we really think of it today. His 1607opera,L’Orfeo, ushered in a new era of opera, widening the spectrum of emotions...
Written in the year 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the most complex and analytical books I have ever read. In just 218 pages F. Scott Fitzgerald has taken The American Dream and the enigma of hope-two of the world’s most complicated ideas and molded them into a work of fiction so...