Twenty-one riveting stories and illustrations about ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes, such as: British gunboat H.M.S. Speedy in 1804, American Navy brig U.S.S. Niagara in 1820, Civil War steamer Island Queen in 1864, the infamous freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, and many more!

Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes: Legends And Lore, Pirates And More!

History

Varhola, Michael

Americas

Globe Pequot

"Everything is bigger in Texas," as the saying goes, and this certainly applies to the history of sleaze, iniquity, and violence associated with the Lone Star State. Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem provides a glimpse at the state's seamy underbelly and delves into some of the most striking episodes of lust, corruption, slaughter, and chaos in Texas and the people who have perpetrated them. To a colorful rogues' gallery of lunatics, corrupt politicians, prostitutes, murderers, and every other sort of scoundrel that appears in the book, author Michael O. Varhola has added a smattering of UFOs, mythological beasts, and other paranormal oddities. Specific chapters among the 54 that appear in Texas Confidential include "Rogues of the Alamo," a look at the things that just about everyone connected with the famous battle had to hide; "The Ivory Tower of Death," on the bloody 1966 University of Texas rampage that left 18 people dead and 42 wounded; "Porno, Texas Style," which includes a list of adult actors from the state; and "The Aurora UFO Incident," about the state's oldest documented UFO incident, which occurred in 1897.

Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State

Reference

Clerisy Press

Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country (America's Haunted Road Trip)

<div>Settled by Spanish explorers more than three centuries ago, San Antonio has a rich haunted history.Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country by local author Michael Varhola covers 30 haunted locations in or around the cities of San Antonio and Austin and throughout the region known as Texas Hill Country. Each site combines history, haunted lore and phenomena, and practical visitation information. The book is organized into four geographical sections, "City of San Antonio," "Greater San Antonio," "Austin," and "Texas Hill Country." This hands-on guide also includes an introduction to the subject of ghosthunting in the Lone Star State and all the information readers need to visit the places described within it including descriptions of nearly 100 other haunted places. Sites covered include bridges, churches, colleges and universities, cemeteries and graveyards, government buildings, historic sites, hotels, museums, parks, restaurants and bars, and much more. They include the Crockett Hotel, built on the spot where David Crockett and the final defenders of the Alamo are believed to have been slain; the Ghost Tracks, where spectral children are known to move people's stopped cars and the Devil's Backbone, the haunted highway that wends through the hills north of San Antonio. </div>

12 original maps 24 photos and illustrations 6 x 9 
Michael Varhola's The Korean War covers every aspect of this overlooked conflict in an original and fast-paced style. Jammed with facts, myths, statistics and analysis, Varhola's study includes chapters on leading personalities on both sides, all of the major actions including the Inchon Landing and retreat from Chosin, and the roles of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. Includes a Foreword by Col. John E. Jessup, a Korean War veteran and the author of a number of books, including An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996. 
Michael Varhola has written and edited several books, including Everyday Life During the Civil War. He has also founded or run several publications, including Living History and The Achiever magazines, and has been published in dozens of other publications.

Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953

Asia

Da Capo Press

Military

Da Capo

This "History at a Glance" volume presents a huge amount of information in a small space, including many facts and figures that will be new even to dedicated readers.

D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944

Varhola, Michael J.

Holderfield, Randy

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Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes: Legends And Lore, Pirates And More!

Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State

Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country (America's Haunted Road Trip)

Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953

Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953

D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944