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Pearl Harbor: The Missing Motive
Kevin O'Connell · CreateSpace Pages: 394 Format: Print book |
Kirkus Indie Review: "A convincing analysis of Japan's role in World War II and a reasonable argument for a logic process that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor." US Review of Books: "RECOMMENDED" Foreword Clarion Review : "FOUR STARS" "offers genuine... |
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher · Pegasus Books Pages: 496 Format: Print book |
The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
Joshua Partlow · Knopf Pages: 416 Format: Print book |
The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief. The United... |
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Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion
Jacqueline Riding · Bloomsbury Pages: 608 Format: Print book |
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie," and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James... |
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A Short History of the First World War: Land, Sea & Air, 1914-1918
Gordon Kerr · Oldcastle Books Format: Book |
As the war is slipping beyond living memory, this concise history helps ensures that the conflict is never forgotten WWI, lasting just four years from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated.... |
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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
Christopher B. Krebs · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Pages: 304 Format: Paperback |
When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as a bible and vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired and polarized readers... |
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Notebook On Shipwrecks, Maryland Delaware Coast
H Richard Moale · Willow Bend Books Pages: 266 Format: Book |
This book represents an attempt to list, by alphabetical order, shipwrecks along the coast of Maryland and Delaware from Cape Henlopen at the Northern limit to Maryland-Virginia line at the Southern limit to a distance of approximately 40 miles offshore.
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The Minimum Wage: A Reference Handbook
Oren M. Levin-Waldman · ABC-CLIO Format: Hardcover |
This unbiased look at the minimum wage debate in America traces the history of minimum wage policy at both the federal and state levels, discusses the controversies swirling around the issue, and examines the veracity of claims made by people on both sides of the debate. Presents data not typically... |
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Chancery Books of Carroll County, Maryland, Volumes 1-20, 1837-1873
Virginia D Stenley · Heritage Books Pages: 201 Format: Paperback |
Many names and relationships are uncovered in Chancery Court records: abstracts of foreclosures, partition or sale of real estate to settle an estate, satisfy creditors, divorces, etc. All names and tract names have been abstracted. |
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Abstracts of Cecil County, Maryland, land records
June D Brown · Heritage Books Pages: 310 Format: Book |
These records are taken from the Cecil County Deed Book Numbers two, three and four. Family relationships are frequently given. Each entry names every person and relationship found in the records. For a listing of land patents of Cecil County, 1649-1774,
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George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
Philip Levy · West Virginia University Press Pages: 224 Format: eBook |
George Washington's childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington's formative years. In George Washington Written... |
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MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Walter R Borneman · Little Pages: 594 Format: Print book |
The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period... |
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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Michael J Klarman · Oxford University Press Pages: 880 Format: Print book |
Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,... |
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