Civil War Generation

Reducere. Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. Eng...

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and loc...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most tragic wars in Southern Africa's history, the Rhodesian Civil War, raged for over a decade.Spanning from 1966 to 1979, t...

Reducere. The Past is a strange place indeed . . . everything could have been so different so easily.Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .MacKinlay Kan...

Reducere. Palpasa Cafe tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and th...

Reducere. During the Civil War, the United States Army imprisoned thousands of Navajos in unsafe conditions at Fort Sumner. Through the eyes of teenager Dann...

Reducere. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Mire is excited when war is declared and is eager to enlist in the Confederate Army. This is the defining moment of his ge...

Reducere. Aged twenty-one, James R Jump gave up his job as a journalist and went to Spain to fight General Franco's fascists in the Spanish civil war of 1936...

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ramon J. SenderEditor: Borja Rodriguez GutierrezRequiem por un campesino espanol, a short, elegant and moving account of th...

Reducere. "Lincoln and the Indians has stood the test of time and offers this generation of readers a valuable interpretation of the U.S. government's Indian...

Reducere. The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest a...

Reducere. "Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . and] how one generation of black women benef...

DescriptionCelebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade - with high-profile stories that sparked a media frenzy in the Tumultuous 2000sThe...

Reducere. These three documents, Weather War document, Future warfare, Population figures of the countries, authorized by US Air Force, NASA, CIA, FBI, DARPA...

DescriptionIn Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s, Tom Hayden, a seminal figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, documen...

Warriors won the Aryamati poetry prize in 2021. The pamphlet spans a thirty-year history, against the shadow of the Sri Lankan civil war, told from...

Reducere. What if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between th...

Reducere. What if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between th...

If you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search ...

Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, pree...

Reducere. DescriptionMartha Gellhorn was a fearless war correspondent for nearly fifty years and a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spa...

When the world held its breath ... It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long be...

Reducere. Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; u...

Miguel Ruiz is a Spanish veteran exiled in France who was a member of "La Nueve" ("The Nine"), a company of men that went straight from fighting fo...

Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture is the first book-scaled historical survey entirely focused on this notable Chicago North Shore suburb in...

Reducere. Following World War II, the United States embarked on the great social and financial experiment of suburbanization. While it created tremendous gro...

Reducere. From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every major conflict of his adult lifetime up to the Syrian Civil War, photographer Don McCullin h...

Contributor(s): Author: Aime Cesaire"C saire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in ...

Reducere. A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the foun...

Reducere. Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after...

Reducere. The sixth book in the Backroads series by Lynn Coffey, Crazy Quilt is a patchwork of new and exciting offerings about the people and places dotting...

Reducere. "On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiat...

DescriptionWhen the world held its breath ...It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 194...

Reducere. A "Bay ridge life" is the story of the first- born male offspring of two young parents from America's "greatest generation" little Bobby Lane was w...

Earth's Mightiest MetamorphLook out world, Kamala Khan is officially an AvengerBut will it be everything she imagined? Or is life as a celebrity ha...

Reducere. Norwegian immigrants founded a settlement southwest of Cambridge, Iowa, in June 1855 and a second colony east of Story City in June 1856. Fifty yea...

As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally importan...

Reducere. Although the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the country's civil rights mov...

"The republication of Professor Kenez's classic volumes is to be warmly welcomed. Based on copious archival research and a close reading of publish...

Reducere. Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.From the creators of Mad Men, The Walking Dead and Breaking...

Reducere. A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French...

Reducere. Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in an adventure with roots in a gunfight where her father shot down the cult-like leader of a ...

Reducere. Newly reissued, the exciting Star Trek novel from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton After 200 years of civil war, the planet Or...

DescriptionNovember 1288. Bereft of a king or rightful heir, England hurtles towards civil war for the second time in a generation. When David, Pri...

During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antira...

Originally serialized in Japan's TV Magazine, these classic stories from the Generation 1 era of Transformers are now available in English for the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nick K. AdamsWhat does a father write to his wife and young children when he's gone to war? Does he explain why he left the...

``Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine...Stunning.``--Publishers Wee...

Reducere. In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wilbur S. NyeFort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to...

Winchester Lever-Action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced shortly after the American Civil War...

Reducere. Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial te...

Reducere. DescriptionPensacola is a city of firsts, from the first documented European settlement in North America to the first Naval Aviation training stati...

Reducere. In a small Ugandan village, Kato wakes early to start the long, barefoot trek beyond his village and along fields dotted with cattle and guarded by...

Reducere. In a small Ugandan village, Kato wakes early to start the long, barefoot trek beyond his village and along fields dotted with cattle and guarded by...

Daniel Cone's descendants can be grateful that this Scottish prisoner of the English Civil War became a servant in the most prominent family of ear...

Reducere. DescriptionDiscover Louisa May Alcott's classic novel--now featuring gorgeous photos from Greta Gerwig's big-screen adaptation--in this stunning ke...

Reducere. For millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher's photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His images from western Nebraska constitute the most ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from ...

New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate "America's second revolutionary generation" in ...

The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descenda...

Reducere. Africa's past and present are deeply influenced by the capture and selling of millions of its people over several centuries. To a greater extent, t...

Reducere. "Up from Slavery" is the autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a ...

Reducere. A new stand-alone novel from the acclaimed author of The Company and The Folding Knife. Gignomai is the youngest brother in the current generation ...

Reducere. Many great writers are defined and remembered by one piece of work that embeds itself into the culture and continues to be enjoyed by every generat...

Reducere. Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender se...