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Tomorrow I'm off to Gorizia, an Italian town on the border with Slovenia. I'm going to be a guest speaker at the town's annual history fair, sponsored by the publisher Editrice Goriziana, who have come out with the Italian editions of a couple of my history books.The theme this year is Bandits, and of course I'm on the Jesse James panel! My talk is called "Jesse James, Inc." I'll be talking ab... Read more of this blog post »
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It Happened in Missouri
— published 2007 |
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A Fine Likeness
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Outlaw Tales of Missouri: True Stories of the Show Me State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats
— published 2009 |
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Byzantium: An Illustrated History
— published 2004 |
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Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons
— published 2006 — 3 editions |
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Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia
by Sean McLachlan (Goodreads Author), Raffaele Ruggeri — published 2011 — 2 editions |
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American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics
by Sean McLachlan (Goodreads Author), Gerry Embleton — published 2009 |
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Missouri: An Illustrated History
— published 2008 |
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The Last Ride of the James-Younger Gang & Jesse James & the Northfield Raid 1876
— published 2012 |
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Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82
— expected publication 2013 — 2 editions |
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| The Shire Books are short, heavily illustrated introductions to a variety of British subjects. Considering how many they've published, including one on spoons, I'm surprised they haven't done one on legendary creatures. Well, good things come to thos...more | |
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| This is a tale of a young Missourian coming into his own in the years following the Civil War. The book spans a couple of decades from his first wanderings as a callow youth, through various romantic relationships, his friendship with Frank James, an...more | |
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| Brian Aldiss never disappoints. This novel, which first came out in the U.S. with the title THE LONG AFTERNOON OF EARTH, won the Hugo Award in 1962. Rich in style and evocative in its imagery, it follows a band of some of the last survivors of humani...more | |
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This academic tome is an in-depth look at Rome's architectural and social development in the fourth century AD, a time when paganism was waning and Christianity became the dominant religion. The first half looks at how the imperial capital, replete wi...more |
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| This book about the Coalition occupation of Iraq was written by Bing West, a Vietnam veteran and former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. He examines the changing strategy and tactics of the occupation from its troubled beg...more | |
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All the Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born, by Ayi Kwei Armah, is an excellent read and the second-best book I read all year, after Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Armah wrote this novel in 1968, only eleven years after Ghana got its independence, a...more |
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When I was researching my book Ride Around Missouri, Shelbys Great Raid 1863, this title served as background reading. With Fire and Sword: Arkansas 1861-1874 by Thomas A. DeBlack is a detailed account of the period from just before the war to the end...more |
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