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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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The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever

Ronald G Shafer · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Americans have come to expect that the nation's presidential campaigns will be characterized by a carnival atmosphere emphasizing style over substance. But this fascinating account of the pivotal 1840 election reveals how the now-unavoidable traditions of big money, big rallies, shameless...
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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. This item is Non-Returnable.
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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, This item is Non-Returnable.
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Reviving America: How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity

Steve Forbes · McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yet The United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history. Polls show people on both sides of the ideological divide believe that the country has gone off track. If something...
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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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