Alan Axelrod is a prolific author whose work spans history and business management. His extensive bibliography delves into complex subjects, offering readers profound insights. Axelrod's writing is characterized by its clarity and accessibility, making even challenging topics understandable to a broad audience. His contributions serve as a valuable resource for those interested in historical events and effective leadership principles.
Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals during the American Revolution, this book explores how people navigated a period marked by both conflict and profound change. It highlights their daily experiences—working, raising families, and engaging in community life—amidst a backdrop of hope and anxiety. By emphasizing the personal stories and struggles of those who lived through this tumultuous time, the narrative reveals the human side of history beyond the battlefield.
Called "the worst battle in history" by military historian Sir Alistair Horne, the Battle of Verdun took place from February 21 through December 18, 1916, making 2016 the 100th anniversary of this major battle in the war to end all wars. Approximately 700,000 men fell in this ...
A book devoted to the critical decisions, key events, and breakthrough inventions and discoveries that shaped warfare throughout history and the world.
100 Turning Points in American History is devoted to the critical decisions, key events, and breakthrough inventions and discoveries that shaped our nation.
The book presents true stories of thirty influential figures who played pivotal roles in the largest and most devastating armed conflict in history. It explores their contributions, victories, and defeats, offering insights into the complexities of war and the impact of these individuals on the course of events. Through these narratives, readers gain a deeper understanding of the human experiences behind the conflict and its far-reaching consequences.
The Battle of Belleau Wood, stunning in both its concentration and intensity, was the fiery furnace from which the modern United States Marine Corps emerged as America's fiercest and most effective warriors, the world's preeminent fighting elite.
This book presents profiles of 50 rule-breakers who weren't satisfied with the ordinary, from Gutenberg (printing press) to Herc (the invention of hip-hop).
Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany's Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his answer. "The American infantry," he said. He made it even more specific, telling the reporter that the final death blow for Germany was delivered by "the American infantry in the Argonne." The British and the French often denigrated the American contribution to the war, but they had begged for US entry into the conflict, and their stake in America's victory was, if anything, even greater than that of the United States itself. But How America Won World War I will not litigate the points of view of Britain and France. The book will accepts as gospel the assessment of the top German leader whose job it had been to oppose the Americans directly - that the American infantry won the war - and this book will tell how the American infantry did it.
Focusing on pivotal events that shaped America's Civil War, the book features 20 detailed essays by historian Alan Axelrod. Each essay not only narrates the significance of a selected event but also ranks its impact on the war's causes and outcomes. Axelrod's engaging storytelling highlights how these moments influenced the course of the conflict and the nation's future, providing readers with a deeper understanding of this critical period in American history.
The Gilded Age is the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the era of rapid economic growth in the United States between the 1870s and about 1900. This book looks at how this period presaged our own time. Photographs, political cartoons, engravings and other ephemera help bring this fascinating... číst celé