History Books

Details of the six-inch guns and fortifications, constructed in 1942 to protect Port Stephens NSW Australia. Co-authored with Graeme Steinbeck.

Koonorigan is a locality in the Far North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. This local history book documents the life of the people over the last 100 years. 22,000 words and 100 photographs.

This booklet explains why oil was the real cause of the First World War, and explains the economic and geopolitical interests behind all the major players of this war.Moreover it compares the first Great War for oil in 1914 with the oil wars of 2014 in Syria and Iraq one hundred years later.

This book explains the history of the company Wender & Duerholt and how the company ceased to exist and it’s name became forgotten because of the mistakes that were made right from the start and no one realised it including the owner E. Lohmann of the company.

This work is intended to present an overview of the Hindu rites of passage in a historical perspective. Based on the data put together from the works of P.V. Kane, Rajbali Pandey, Ram Gopal, Willem Caland, Jan Gonda and other eminent scholars as well as the ancient and medieval texts, a humble...

The story of Texas' petroleum industry is one of unconventional characters, unconventional events and unconventional technology. For example, if early drillers had followed conventional geological wisdom, they never would have drilled into the salt domes of East Texas. But the driller's hunch...

Frederick County, Maryland is a location where many historical paths have crossed. Historic Frederick County was commissioned by the Historical Society of Frederick County to tell the story of the county and the several cities and communities within the county. The book contains well over 150...

Historic Oneida County: An Illustrated History tells the story of one of upstate New York's most historic regions. Utica is the county seat and the population focal point of the Oneida Region. The book is commissioned by the Oneida County Historical Society and was written by a collaboration of...

Historic Columbus was commissioned by the Columbus (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce to tell the rich and colorful story of Columbus, as part of the Columbus Bicentennial. The author is award-winning historian and educator, Ed Lentz, who has been writing about central Ohio history for the past 40...

Romanian communist regime and its victims from 1948 to 1990. The testimony of a man who went to prison during those times (a political prisoner also incarcerated for religious beliefs).