After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, Paperback - Gregory P. Downs

A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the YearAn Avery O. Craven Award FinalistA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn April 1865, Robert...

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. The writers and chief actors of the Old Testament expressed a deep longing for the presence of God. This longing is symbolized through history in t...

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century c...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Catherine (Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco) BradyIllustration(s): 7 figures, 16 photos; 23 Illu...

Reducere. The story of one man's journey from idealistic youth to hardened veteran, Lieutenant-Colonel Stephane Grenier returned to Canada from Rwanda haunte...

Reducere. Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to ac...

Reducere. Thomas L. Stewart joined the United States Marine Corps on June 22, 1917--just two months after America entered World War One. Private Stewart was ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Collection: Thinkin...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 296Collection: Thinkin...

Reducere. Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including SSI reproductio...

A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the world's most traveled people reach the planet's last untouched frontiers; instead, they were take...

Reducere. There is extensive discussion in current Just War literature about the normative principles which should govern the initiation of war (jus ad bellu...

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders playe...

Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.

A vibrant, surprising and thought-provoking collection of essays from an exciting new literary voice who has been compared to John Jeremiah Sulliva...

Nearly forty thrilling, first-hand accounts by men and women who are the modern heirs of the great explorers of previous ages.Illustrations: 25 Ill...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. World War II created enemies and friends among nations. When it ended, how did the involved parties rise up from the rubles? This history book will...

Reducere. One of the most important Confederate generals of the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, the man Robert E. Lee called his "old war ...

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One thousand years after "the time of fire, " a gentle craftsman and flute player forsakes both his true love and birthright to seek the fabled Shi...

The concluding volume in Valerio Manfredi's epic series of Alexander the Great's tumultuous life.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Valerio Massimo...

Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War II to try the former Nazi leaders for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, known as the Internationa...

Reducere. DescriptionAs Christianity's center of gravity has shifted to the Majority World in the 21st century, many younger churches in Africa, Asia, and La...

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 ...

The cycling doctor: Round the world with a stethoscope.Illustrations: 16 page colour plate section

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): Abbie GreavesNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. "Suzanne Simons is a masterful storyteller. But make no mistake--Master of War is not a work of fiction....A powerful and true account."--Wolf Blit...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the invasion and occupation written by Japanese and Chinese officers and civilians *Includes online resour...

This book focuses on the systems used by the Axis powers for the governance of the countries that they occupied during the Second World War.

This book is a much-needed, fresh examination of the unique strategies and technological achievements made by General Longstreet during the Civil W...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...