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Beyond the Rhine: A Screaming Eagle in Germany
Donald R. Burgett · Presidio Press; 1st edition
Format: Illustrated]
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In this, the culmination of Donald R. Burgett's critically acclaimed series of World War II memoirs, takes the reader along with the Screaming Eagles to Victory in Europe (VE) and beyond. |
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Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
John Keegan · Knopf
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover
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In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop... |
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Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the closing months of World War II Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weaponsBy the beginning of American pilots were shooting down Japanese planes more than ten to one The Japanese had so few metals left... |
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
Andrea Wulf · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761, the world... |
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly... |
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Migrations And Cultures: A World View
Thomas Sowell · Basic Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of migrations over a long... |
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Joseph J. Ellis · Vintage
Format: Book
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A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed... |
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Timothy Egan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America.
The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man.... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic... |
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