Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century

The Vanguard Satellite Launching Vehicle, An Engineering Summary - Details of America's Early Rocket for the First Satellites, Program History, Vehicle Design    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 72210 words. Language: English. Published on April 16, 2013. Nonfiction » Engineering, trades, and technology » Aeronautics & Astronautics.

This is the official comprehensive technical report on the historic Vanguard satellite rocket. Project Vanguard was conceived in 1955 for the purpose of establishing a scientific satellite in orbit about the earth during the International Geophysical Year (July 1957 to December 1958).
Complete Guide to the 1963 JFK Assassination: The Full Text of Three Major Reports - Warren Commission, House Select Committee, Assassination Records Review Board - President Kennedy    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 815330 words. Language: English. Published on April 16, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » White house.

All of the controversial aspects of the assassination of President Kennedy are examined in these three critical reports: the original Warren Commission report, the report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979, and the Assassination Records Review Board report of 1998.
1963 JFK Assassination: Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board - President John F. Kennedy, The JFK Act, Investigations, FBI and CIA, Zapruder Film, Medical and Ballistics, Critics    by Progressive Management
Price: $8.99 USD. 121830 words. Language: English. Published on April 12, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

This is the 1998 report of the panel formed as a result of the 1992 President John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act.
When That Great Ship Went Down: The Legal and Political Repercussions of the Loss of RMS Titanic    by Markham Pyle
Price: $2.99 USD. 99400 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published by Bapton Books  on January 16, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

The celebrated history of the aftermath, in the US Congress, the US Supreme Court, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, of the sinking of the unsinkable ship. Markham Shaw Pyle and GMW Wemyss examine the political pressures and dirty deals that affected the Titanic enquiries, wrote new law, and changed our world.
Titanic: Those in Peril on the Sea    by Steve Orlandella
Price: $2.99 USD. 66300 words. Language: English. Published on January 7, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

What really happened? Myths and inaccuracies still blur the real story. “Titanic: Those in Peril on the Sea” is the story of the great ship, her passengers, and crew. This is my attempt to tell the story through the prism of my somewhat skeptical eye. Supporting what is real, debunking what is not.
The Unauthorized Autobiography of W.B.: The War Years (1933-1945)    by Walter Bodlander
Price: $7.99 USD. 67120 words. Language: English. Published on December 29, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

This memoir by Walter Bodlander, in his 90s, reflects on his odyssey as young German Jew in the 1930s fleeing to Switzerland, France, Palestine and returning to his native Germany as an officer in the US Army. The book explores some of the psychological adjustments of a boy, raised in a fully assimilated German family, coming to terms with his Jewish ancestry. Full of self reflection and humor.
Good Night Old Man    by George Campbell
Price: $8.99 USD. 71990 words. Language: English. Published by Dream Write Publishing  on December 28, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

Today, we still have radio and telephone – each very much advanced but telegraph collapsed in Canada on May 30th, 1972, and our beautiful language died. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, I worked and conversed in Morse code every day. For those born after 1972, Morse code was an electrical language people used to communicate with one another all over the world. I left it in the final decade of its life.
37: The Year of Portent    by Markham Pyle
Price: $4.99 USD. 81660 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published by Bapton Books  on December 18, 2012. Nonfiction » History » World.

1937 – from the flooded Ohio to the new Golden Gate Bridge, from bombed Guernica to newly-opened Buchenwald to the Rape of Nanking – was a year of portent. Markham Shaw Pyle and GMW Wemyss, the celebrated historians of the Titanic enquiries and of the coming of the Second World War, here survey that dread year, from Tolkien and Disney to war and terror. This is history in the grand manner.
Enforcing the Civil Rights Act    by James D. Keeney
Price: $9.95 USD. 57200 words. Language: English. Published on December 6, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.

A new team of EEOC attorneys arrived in Miami in 1979 and discovered a class action case file hiding in a closet. Trial was scheduled to begin in just three weeks, yet nothing had been done to prepare the case for trial. This book describes how three dedicated attorneys saved the case and ultimately won a great victory for hundreds of victims of race and sex discrimination
Panama 1914    by Ken Rossignol
Price: $3.99 USD. 90180 words. Language: English. Published by Kenneth Rossignol / Huggins Point Publishing LLC  on November 19, 2012. Nonfiction » Transportation » Ships & Shipbuilding / History.

PANAMA 1914 IS NOW BOARDING! Join this great voyage through the history of the Panama Canal, which is, one hundred years after its completion, on the eve of a new chapter in its spectacular history. From the early explorers, many seeking a critical water connection between two of the world’s great oceans to the determination of the best engineers of America, the BIG DIG finally opened for ships.