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Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

A Non-fiction Analysis Of The Persian Gulf War And The Nature Of War And Command As Seen Through The Actions Of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., Commander ...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

A Portrait Of Washington, D.c. During The Days Of World War Ii. Waiting -- The Battle For Washington -- Bureaucracies At War -- Locked In Deadly Struggle .....

Since the Declaration of Independence, equality has been America's primary moral commitment. But equality of what? and for whom? In this completely revised ...

In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled measure of ...

THE "MUST-READ"* BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISIONAfter the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons ...

New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American...

Winner, 2017 Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States * From the historian who has been acclaimed as "doing for the Navy what po...

Eleanor Herman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-274) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySocial Psychology & Interactions

A Never-before-told World War Ii Story Of Jewish Soldiers On A Dangerous Mission Within The Third Reich--a Tale Of Adventure, Espionage, Love, And Revenge.C...

Provides supplementary instruction and increases students' chances for academic success by helping them get the most out of their textbooks.Categories: Hist...

The League of Nations - pre-cursor to the United Nations - was founded in 1919 as a response to the First World War to ensure collective security and preven...

The Murder Of Abraham Lincoln Set Off The Greatest Manhunt In American History. From April 14 To April 26, 1865, The Assassin Led Union Cavalry And Detectiv...

The six daughters of the eccentric Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney have inspired many books, but this group biography is widely considered to be the fine...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

What Does It Take, Both Physically And Mentally, To Join The World’s Most Respected—and Feared—military Units? Lewis Looks At The Origins, Training, T...

Traces The Events Surrounding The Final American Bombing Mission Of World War Ii, Identifying A Japanese Rebel Plot For A Massive Coup That Would Have Kept ...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming ...

A nation lost its innocence on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. Thirty-five years lat...

Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., A Late-eighteenth-century Financial Pioneer-turned-confidence Man, Describing How He Took Advantage Of Suspicions About Paper M...

Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring HeistCategories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeEspionage

America, how well do you know your history? Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to d...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me share the stories behind the five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination—al...

From the award-winning chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report comes the definitive history of Air Force One. From FDR's prop-driv...

Includes Discussion Of Contemporary Economic And Demographic Forces, In Addition To Standard Physical And Historical Geographic Material, Bone (geography, U...

"I'm not a scratch golfer. I don't know how to bowl. I can't read the stock market. Hell, I have a hard time remembering my wife's cell phone number. But I...

Michael Holley.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Did Jesus of Nazareth really rise from the dead? Of the many world religions, only one claims that its founder returned from the grave. The resurrection o...

The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church MurdersCategories:Politics & Social Sciences

A graphic narrative describes what happens to a 13-year-old Jewish girl when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. Includes a brief chronology of the Holocaust...

This study examines the Norman settlement of Anglo-Saxon England, that was begun before 1066 but which was made permanent by military conquest between 1066 ...

More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoi...

This Work Focuses On Such Subjects As John Wayne And Howard Hughes, Growing Up A Girl In California, Ruminating On The Nature Of Good And Evil In A Death Va...

The compelling untold story of a group of stranded U.S. Army nurses and medics fighting to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. When 26 Army nurses and medics-par...

William L. Barney. Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: History United States19th Century

Clarence Smoyer Began The War As A Gentle Giant, A Factory Worker From Pennsylvania Coal Country Reluctant To Unleash The Power Of The Sherman Tank He Crewe...

Medieval Theatre in Context is the first systematic attempt to relate the development of medieval drama – both Christian and pagan – to contemporary soc...

Colin Morris traces the origin of the concept of the individual, not to the Renaissance where it is popularly assumed to have been invented, but farther bac...

This text presents a clear and concise, yet comprehensive survey of the contributions of women to the history of art. Organized chronologically, the book a...

Describes Social Life And Customs Of The Working People In New York After The Revolution. Includes Sections On Apprentices And Youths, Journeymen, Master Cr...

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled m...

The True Story Of The Assassination Of Jfk, Told By Secret Service Agents Who Were There And Who Have Lived With The Guilt And Grief From That Day. When Tim...

A horrifying look at one of the bloodiest scandals in the history of the American presidency, Fast and Furious is this season's sensational, mustread book ...

Examines the role of the air force in World War II, including the nonstop bombing over Germany and the slow island by island battles in the Pacific.Categori...

A History Of Texas High School Football Teams That Have Won Four Or More State Championships Since 1920-- Rick Sherrod. Includes Bibliographical References ...

Terry Bradshaw -- Evander Holyfield -- Jerry West -- Byron Whizzer White -- Danielle Green -- Bill Yoast -- Joey Cheek -- Dwayne The Rock Johnson -- Dorothy...

Was Golf Better (to Use One Of Tiger's Favorite Phrases) Back In The Day? In [this Book], Michael Bamberger, Who Fell For The Game As A Teenager In Its Wild...