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Documents The 1810 To 1813 Expedition, Financed By Millionaire John Jacob Astor And Encouraged By Thomas Jefferson, To Establish Fort Astoria, A Trading Pos...

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? Volume 2 is now out with 60 more stories, the same number of pages, but the stories are longer and more intense, ...

Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I is an one-volume encyclopedia of World War I warships of eight fleets of 1914: Great Britain, Germany, the United State...

The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came in...

Never before in German military history did the German Artillery possess such variety and magnitude as in the World War II era. From North Cape to Tobruk, B...

What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material—from government policy to popular me...

The Great War Ian Beckett "Beckett's... outstanding history of the First World War should be in every school and university library" Prof Sir Michael How...

The Mayor Of London And Former Spectator Editor Challenges Popular Misconceptions To Assess Churchill's Enduring Influence On The World, Discussing The Many...

From Living In A Tin-roofed Shack North Of Dar-es-salaam To Becoming Baroness Park Of Monmouth, Daphne Park Led A Most Unusual Life?one That Consisted Of A ...

With Each Passing Year, Veterans Of The Great War Grow Fewer In Number. Yet The War Itself Continues To Attract Attention And Inspire Anger. Fierce Battles ...

The ocean levels may not have risen an inch, but the CHANGE in the planet's social, economic, and political CLIMATE is flooding the earth with predictable c...

Tom Swallow, Arthur H. Pill And The Members Of The Muhlberg Motor Club, Stalag Ivb, Germany, 1944-1945. Facsimile Reproductions Of Flywheel, A Motoring Maga...

Depicts Some Of The Most Compelling Aerial Combat Of Any War -- The Rescue Team, Call Sign Sandy, Flying Single-engine Relics Of World War Ii, Who Brought B...

Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone again...

Completely new selection of guns featured - this book does not repeat the content of other similar volumes by the same author or with the same title.Categor...

Introduction: A Generation Revisited -- Long Time Passing -- Two Soldiers -- The Generation -- A Different War -- Southie And The Rebels -- Draft And Protes...

Drawn from the vast collections of the Library of Congress, World War II 365 Days is a unique compilation of riveting text and more than 500 images, many ...

For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few k...

This is the first-hand account of Rudolf's Vrba's experience as a registrar in the prison camp as well as the story of his daring escape. Categories: Hist...

Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now!These were the final shouts nine year-o...

This new edition of a photographic history of World War II features 900 captioned images. It covers every major theatre of conflict and the people involved,...

Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen by Americansdiplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athleteswho watched hor...

A Stirringly Evocative, Thought-provoking, And Often Jaw-dropping Account, The Operator Ranges Across Seal Team Operator Robert O'neill's Awe-inspiring Four...

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the sin...

Love, fame, war, and espionageCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Community & CultureAsian & Asian American

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Midd...

The Hero Of Hammondsport -- The Americas -- The Nancy Boats -- The Roaring Twenties -- Lean Years -- Good Years -- Coming Of Age -- The Great Clippers -- Th...

What Was It Like To Work In A Canadian Second World War Munitions Factory? What Were Working Conditions Like? Did Anyone Die? Just How Closely Did Female Em...

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events...

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing t...

Chris Gainor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 252-254).Categories: History MilitaryAviation

Biography of Marie Antoinette. The Washington Post - Suzanne D'Amato Weber's book is an ode to the art of dressmaking at its most fantastic, a heady, gorg...

At the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilo...

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of German combat aircraft and their markings, The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45 i...

Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S....

Ratline is the documented history about the mechanisms by which thousands of other Nazi war criminals fled to the remotest parts of the globe--including qu...

Geoffrey Ellis Offers An Up-to-date Synthesis Of Recent Research Into The Aims And Effects Of Napoleonic Rule In France And In Conquered Europe. Thoroughly ...

During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in the U.S. were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty ships, t...

The battle was similar to many others, with one notable exception: The corps of cadets from the Virginia Military Institute was among the regiments on the f...

In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the mid-1970s to the Loughgall shooting in...

For the collector, for the shooter, for the fan of rifles and handguns, this boxed set from the experts at Gun Digest is a must-have resource. Includes Clas...

Over 100 Combat Missions, 24 Years As A Green Beret--full Battle Rattle Tells The Legend Of A Soldier Who Served America In Every War Since Vietnam. Master ...