The Odyssey of Geronimo: Twenty Three Years a Prisoner of War - W. Michael Farmer

Reducere. Geronimo was hated by some of his own people, loved by others, but respected by all. The Odyssey of Geronimo, based on history and Apache culture b...

Praised as an "unforgettable love story" by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life,...

"[A] remarkable life story" -Senator Bob Dole I'll See You Again, Lady Liberty is the story of a young German whose father dared to rip a required ...

Reducere. Thomas L. Johnson's remarkable life, wherein he was born into slavery before going on to a successful career as a minister and missionary, is told ...

Reducere. In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Judy FosterAuthor: Marlene DerletBased on many years of research into ancient history and prehistory, this insightful tome ...

Fate, fortune, redemption . . . and revenge.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Jeffrey ArcherNumber of pages: 624Publication date: 2013Dimensions: ...

Reducere. Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survi...

A global history of world politics, offering a corrective to Western views of history and diplomacy. The East/West spanning approach allows Holslag...

DescriptionThe conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between ...

DescriptionThe Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas's most famous and enduring novel, completed its serial publication in the summer of 1844, and by t...

As the SAS's Regimental Sergeant-Major, Peter Ratcliffe led the longest and most successful operation behind Iraqi lines during the Gulf War and se...

A meticulous reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the Irish Civil War in 1922 - the defining event of modern Irish politics.

Reducere. In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga...

Publisher: Arkose PressAuthor(s): Robert Studley VidalIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 572Publication date: 2015Dime...

Reducere. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the hig...

DescriptionThe epic battle between humankind and their godlike rulers finally ignites in the masterful follow-up to Age of Myth and Age of Swords. ...

Reducere. America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--i...

The arrival of a high-ranking spy for the Emperor Severus spells trouble for Libertus in this gripping historical mystery set in 2nd century Britai...

Reducere. Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the sou...

Reducere. Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the sou...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936-2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confedera...

'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest h...

A superb example of the ever-popular Japanese POW genre. First hand and contemporaneous account of survival on the notorious Burma Railway.

Reducere. DescriptionA desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage. A heavily armed cult leader refuses to leave his compound, threaten...

Twin sisters - Jill Robertson and Jan Slimming - provide an exhilarating account via their father's secret POW diary.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

Collected journalism from the number-one bestselling author of FIRE AND FURYPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Michael WolffNumber of pa...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, ...

Reducere. For every Sunday this treasury offers step by step guidelines as well as an introduction, a prayer of sorrow, the gospel reading for the day; point...

This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries. First -- the 'biblical' age: how was the date of Cr...

James Callahan entered Texas armed, a quixotic young man enlisted in the Georgia Battalion for the cause of independence. He barely survived the 18...

Reducere. This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Pat Tillman wa...

DescriptionIn 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over ...

Reducere. Morgan Llywelyn's Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald ...

After five agonizing years as a prisoner of war and five months on a grueling march homeward, Rene Tardi, the legendary cartoonist's father, is awa...

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Eckart FoersterIllustration(s): 1 halftone, 13 line illustrationsTranslator: Brady BowmanNumber of pa...

Reducere. In this sequel to Long Title: Looking for the Good Times; Examining the Monkees' Songs, One By One, authors Michael A. Ventrella and Mark Arnold lo...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 1 frontisp.Number of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 19Cover type...

John Valentine's letters home from his time in a Prisoner of War camp during World War Two.

Reducere. "TAKE A RIDE IN THE FRONT SEAT OF SOCIETY'S ROLLERCOASTER""That was it. That was the moment I knew I wanted to be a cop."When Rob Rothwell is a naï...

A thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry "I look not to myself but to the Force, In which all things arise a...

The most eloquent translation of Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan War

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Qui Duc NguyenIn 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnames...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, among the patchy meadows, dusty sandlots, and ramshackle municipal parks situated among the unassuming cornfi...

Reducere. Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rolvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, yea...