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Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars
Clint Johnson · Regnery History
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged "against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected." Those were the words Lieutenant Commander Robert Copeland calmly told his crew as their tiny, unarmored destroyer... |
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Cleveland: 1796-1929
Thea Gallo Becker · Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
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Located on the southern shores of Lake Erie, Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland, an agent of the Connecticut Land Company surveying the Western Reserve. The modest frontier settlement became a village in 1815 and an incorporated city in 1836. By 1896, Cleveland boasted... |
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Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to Battlefields, Monuments, and More
Civil War Preservation Trust · Globe Pequot; 1st edition
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Within this easy-to-use guide, completely revised and updated in clear, concise prose, are more than 500 sites in 28 states--solemn battlefields, gracious mansions, state parks, cemeteries, memorials, museums, and more. Specific directions, hours, and contact information help to plan the trip;... |
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Cleveland Then and Now
John J Grabowski · Thunder Bay Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Celebrating America's favorite cities and landscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Cleveland Then and Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman
Nicholas Booth · Arcade Publishing; 1st American Edition edition
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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The most remarkable double agent of World War II Eddie Chapman was witty handsome and charming Too bad he was also a con man womanizer and safe-cracker To the British though he was known as ZigZag one of MIs most valuable agents To the AbwehrGerman military intelligencehe was known as Fritzchen... |
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Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump · Ballantine Books
Pages: 372
Format: Print book
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work - a firsthand account of the rise of America's foremost deal-maker. "I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going to be thinking... |
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