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My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Andrew Carroll · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters, a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, centered on an intimate portrait of General Pershing, drawing on a rich trove of newly uncovered letters Based on an astonishing collection of letters... |
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Ancient Egypt
R. Hamilton · Parragon Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A history book with a difference. In a world of traitors and thieves, who would you trust? Nakht is just a simple scribe in the temple of Sobek, the crocodile god. When a poor slave girl calls on his help, he is thrown into a murderous plot involving stolen treasures, mysterious curses... |
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US Prisoners of War in the Korean War
Arden A Rowley · Turner
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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Dedicated to all 1.3 million U.S. service Men and Women who served in Korea during the Korean War - 1950-1953: 103,000 who were wounded 36,000 who were killed 7,140 who became POWs 8,100 who are still missing in action ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL. |
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Storyof World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Hampton Sides · Perfection Learning
Pages: 344
Format: Library Binding
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On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese... |
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Grant
RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends
William Guarnere · Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Tom Hanks introduces the rousing story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army-members of an elite unit of the 101st... |
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
BRIAN VANDEMARK · Custom House
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
DAVID FISHER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
DIANE ACKERMAN · W W NORTON
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The movie The Zookeeper's Wife, based on the New York Times bestselling book, opens March 2017.In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabiński (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński (Johan Heldenbergh) , have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing... |
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic
Joseph J Ellis · Vintage
Pages: 283
Format: Paperback
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National BestsellerAcclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early years of the Republic.The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated group of men undertook... |
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