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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British... |
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100 Years of Air Power and Aviation
Robin Higham · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century Robin Higham, regarded by many as the dean of aviation historians, presents a critical history of British, American, Soviet, German, Italian, French, Japanese, and Israeli aviation. He moves easily from theory to concrete example and back... |
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Moncla and the Prairie Communities: Blue Town, Johnson, Hickory Hill, Magnolla, Moncla, Par en Haut, Riddle
Randy DeCuir · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
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Moncla is an old steamboat community on the Red River in Avoyelles Parish. Located on the flood safe prairie, it is the largest community of several small settlements north of Marksville Louisiana in Ward Two. Communities include: Blue Town, Gum Ridge, Par en Haut, Riddle, Johnson, Moncla,... |
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Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne
Donald R. Burgett · Presidio Press
Format: Illustrated]
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The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division (fictional Private Ryan's unit) were ready for some well earned rest and recuperation. Following their combat in the Normandy Invasion, the division had been mauled during Field Marshal Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden,... |
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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
Bruce Henderson · HarperCollins
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable... |
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Ned Sublette · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
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Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive... |
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Ancient Egypt : Art And Archaeology Of The Land Of The Pharaohs
Giorgio Agnese · Barnes & Noble
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most fascinating regions of Africa, the land that saw the rise and fall of the longest and most enigmatic of the Mediterranean civilizations, Egypt is full of landscapes of breathtaking beauty and artistic masterpieces, from the pyramids of Giza to the Valley of the Kings, from... |
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The Library Book
SUSAN ORLEAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved... |
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L'Histoire Et La Genealogie de La Famille Gravois
Roland Anthony Gravois · Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Pages: 774
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This book, which spans three-hundred years and fourteen generations, skillfully combines family history and genealogy to give the reader an insight into the lives of the various generations as the Gravois family multiplied and prospered since the first ones arrived in Louisiana in 1766.... |
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The Adam And Eve Story: The History of Cataclysms
Chan Thomas · Independently published
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
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A declassified and sanitized document discussing the topic of lost ancient human civilizations, and cataclysms that occurred on earth thousands of years ago causing them to vanish from the earth without explanation. This peek into Chan Thomas's Adam and Eve Story that answers questions... |
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA · Liveright
Pages: 525
Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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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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