Presents an account of a short, sharp conflict which marked a crucial turning point in the American Revolution. This book includes illustrations and detailed maps illuminate the dynamism of this…

Gilbert’s other books include Once Upon the Woods and Waters, A Brown Trout Bicycle, and Montezuma’s Treasure Canyon. He has also published more than three thousand stories and columns in…

‘Were it not for the Navajo Code Talkers the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima and other places’ (Anonymous, Marine Corps signal officer). Ed Gilbert uses personal interviews with…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

Using a mysterious wardrobe that allows them to travel through time, two eleven-year-olds, Federico a boy from the Italian Renaissance and Bee a girl from present-day New Jersey, work together…

Following their defeat at Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a Southern Strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to roll up the rebellious…

Specialists in other languages offer perspectives on the widespread use of French in a range of contexts, from German courtly narratives to biblical exegesis in Hebrew.

The town of Wheatland lies along the west bank of the Genesee River in the southwest corner of Monroe County. In 1786, the adventurous frontiersman Ebenezer Indian Allan built a…