Joseph Cummins

Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises

Anything for a Vote

The Larger Than Life Characters and Dramatic Events That Changed the World

History's Great Untold Stories

When two supremely powerful political rivals lock horns in a clash of personality and ideology, they can change the course of human history.

When Politics Gets Personal

Great Rivals in History

Brimming bank vaults. Loot laden trains. Who says crime doesn't pay?

Gripping Exposes of the World's Most Notorious Robberies

Heists

Here collected for the first time in one volume, are twenty accounts of humans eating humans - true stories that separate fact from fiction, exploring human depravity and the fight for survival.In Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea, Joseph Cummins has assembled some of the most dramatic incidents of cannibalism in history. Cannibals draws from a powerful account of the disastrous Donner party expedition in the snows of the Sierra Nevada in 1847; from Nathaniel Philbrick's bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, about the wreck of the whaleship Essex in the South Pacific; and from Piers Paul Read's classic Alive, which relates the tragic aftermath of the crash of a Uruguayan airliner in the high Andes in 1972.But Cummins also brings together little-known and equally shocking true accounts - how marauding gangs of cannibals, circa 1150 A.D. may have destroyed a flourishing Southwestern civilization; how modern forensic evidence revealed the horrifying truth behind the vanished 1845 expedition of Arctic explorer John Franklin; how the Japanese practiced cannibalism on Allied soldiers during World War II; and much more.From the serial cannibals of post-World War I Germany to the current controversy over the prevalence of ritual cannibalism in history, Cannibals is both a dramatic document and a chance for us to learn more about this mysterious and little-understood activity. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 288 pages)

Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea

Cannibals

The War Chronicles: From Flintlocks to Machine Guns

Important and timely histories bring to life conflicts that educated readers have heard of but want to know more about. Each of the chapters covers a major war that had a profound effect on the way our civilization was shaped.

From Chariots to Flintlocks - New Perspectives on the Two Thousand Years of Bloodshed That Shaped the Modern World

The War Chronicles

Centuries of warfare that changed the world are captured in History's Greatest Wars. Each chapter includes a quick-reference summary, a timeline, an overview of the war, essays on its principal leaders, a series of short, often offbeat features on aspects of the conflict, and a detailed account of a pivotal battle. Author Joseph Cummins highlights victories that changed nations. Each chapter delineates defining moments in the development of political philosophies, and recounts the heroism of armies and individuals. It traces the transformation of battle tactics and explains the scientific innovations that yielded the machine gun, the tank, and the atom bomb. At the same time, it reiterates the constants of conflict: the personal sacrifices made by those battling tyranny; and the extraordinary influence of charismatic leaders. Sweeping in its scope, yet intimate in its insights, this is a collection that will enhance your understanding of the modern world and your place in it.

The Epic Conflicts that Shaped the Modern World

History's Greatest Wars

"Cast Away recounts, often in their own words, the epic tales of the survivors of shipwreck, mutiny and marooning through the ages and around the globe, focusing on the age of sail and steam. This enthralling book captures some of the most magical, romantic, gruesome, exciting and bizarre stories of the sea. It offers up for the readers delectation the suffering of innocents; the ruthless predations of pirates; the last-resort horrors of cannibalism; encounters with ferocious indigenous tribes; the unfettered madness of religious maniacs and psychopaths; and survival against all odds. And behind every tale of tragedy or triumph is the eternal mystery and majesty of the depthless, merciless, unpredictable ocean."--Provided by publisher.

Shipwrecked, Marooned Or Cast Adrift on the High Seas

Cast Away

Handsomely illustrated with more than 100 striking, sometimes shocking, archival images gathered from around the world, The World's Bloodiest History combines compelling depictions of momentous events with fascinating character portraits and arresting eyewitness accounts to create an absorbing, multifaceted chronicle of a sobering, all-too-human legacy.

The World's Bloodiest History

Part of Pier 9's 'Lost and Found in History' series, First Encounters is a book of first contact moments drawn from over 500 years of human exploration, adventure and discovery. Divided into sections such as 'Fabled Encounters in the Old World', 'The Great Southern Ocean', 'Fateful Encounters in the Heart of Africa', and 'First Contact in the Twentieth Century', this is a book filled with historical moments that have become the stuff of controversy, myth and legend.Some of the most powerful moments in history occur when two peoples, two cultures, previously unknown to each other, come together for the first time.

Epic True Stories of Cultural Collision and Conquest

First Encounters

Nicholas Birns

Bill Ashcroft

Theodore F. Sheckels

Margaret Harris

Ben Holgate

Robert Dixon

Marc Delrez

Laura A. White

Salhia-Ben Messahel

Nathanael O’Reilly

Liliana Zavaglia

Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan’s contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature. Flanagan’s fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of those whose voices have been lost beneath official accounts of history, stories from a small region that have made their mark on a global scale. Considering his seven novels as well as his non-fiction, journalism and correspondence, this collection examines the historical and geographical factors that have shaped Flanagan’s representation of Tasmanian identity. This collection offers new insights into a determinedly regional writer, and the impact he has had on a local, national and global scale.

Critical Essays

Richard Flanagan

Joseph Cummins reveals stories of amazing deceptions, unprecedented tactics, and cunning generals succeeding against all odds. Readers observe brilliant strategists at their creative best in battle tactics that unfold in often odd-ball and always unorthodox and astonishing narratives.

Turn Around and Run Like Hell

když se politika bere osobně

Velcí protivníci v dějinách

A chronicle of one small boy's horribly disfiguring and mysteriously transfiguring disease. Told through Robbie O'Conor's perspective, it catches the tone of a child who cannot comprehend the forces that shape his life, yet manages to convey the brute reality of those forces with consummate maturity. By turns intimate, imaginative and in the final conclusion, blissful.

A Novel

The Snow Train

Grandes episodios desconocidos de la Historia es un libro original y atípico en el que confluyen rigor y conocimiento histórico con un interés especial en desenterrar partes de la historia realmente desconocidas.Partiendo de la Ley de las consecuencias imprevistas, según la cual la historia, al igual que la vida de una persona, se rige por sucesos imprevisibles y a veces casuales, el autor arroja luz sobre algunos de los episodios más curiosos y siniestros que la mayoría de historiadores han elegido obviar.

Grandes episodios desconocidos de la Historia

‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. ‘Imagined Sound’ offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.

The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music

Chronicles the history of ten tea party protests, lesser-known than the Boston Tea Party, that occurred prior to the American Revolution, in cities including Philadelphia, Charleston, Annapolis, and New York.

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