History Man, Paperback

Reducere. The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movieThe true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first...

Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Tennessee Campaign of November and December 1864 was the Southern Confederacy's last significant offensive operation of the Civil Wa...

Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meado...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

An insight into the man at the heart of the world's most infamous maritime disasterPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Clifford IsmayIllustr...

Reducere. A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of ...

Reducere. A noted medical historian places recent outbreaks of deadly diseases in historical perspective, with accounts of other alarming and recurring disea...

Reducere. In this enlightening new look at one of our most successful, most popular, and least understood presidents, bestselling author and former Reagan ai...

Reducere. A canine version of Unbroken.--Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air with Terry Gross NO BETTER FRIEND tells the story of Air Force technician Frank Williams...

Reducere. At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2, 500-mi...

Reducere. Rockefeller was the quintessential industrialist. He created an industry out of nascent oil and gas start-ups during a time when none existed. His ...

Reducere. Sherman Sage (ca. 1844-1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Pla...

Reducere. With a secondhand motorcycle, the support of a few powerful tribesmen and a good friend in the CIA, the unknown Hamid Karzai willed himself to powe...

DescriptionMan and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution,...

Reducere. No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with g...

Reducere. The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldn't be handled by just any military or intell...

Reducere. First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet. Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the...

In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe...

Reducere. The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monow...

Reducere. In this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life with vivid detail in ``a rollicking good story`` (Justin M...

Presented in an illustrated format, this book provides a detailed history of the wartime airfields of the North West of England, including Cark, Cr...

Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a ...

Reducere. The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia"An immense...

Reducere. New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no long...

At the end of September 1894 a charlady stole an undated and unsigned letter from the wastepaper bin of the German military attache in Paris. Torn ...

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. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Henry HemmingPublication date: 1900Dimensions: 232 x 154 x 41Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lect...

Reducere. The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the ...

Reducere. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist b...

10, 000 years of history in one guide book. Engaging narrative style. Dramatic first-hand accounts.

The history of penicillinPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Kevin BrownNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 200 x 132 x 26...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Orville A. TurnquestForeword by: Sidney PoitierEditor: Diane GedyminWhat Manner of Man Is This? is a unique and incisive lo...

Reducere. The inspiration for the Jedi knights of Star Wars and the films of Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese samurai have captured modern imaginations...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Don MorrisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 44Cov...

Publisher: Y LolfaAuthor(s): Sally Roberts JonesIllustration(s): 10 b/w imagesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 18C...

Reducere. DescriptionWelcome to Paradise, a sleepy, backwater town in the mountains of Southeastern Arizona where police chief Luke Hollis is perfectly conte...

Publisher: Tommies GuidesAuthor(s): Jude ColeNumber of pages: 130Publication date: 1900Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 9Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

Reducere. "There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history." --Newsday "Here, in these pages, Lincoln is still ali...

Reducere. Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fianc 's plot to kill her after their wedding. She needs a safe pl...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating Life of Martin Van Buren History chiefly remembers Martin Van Buren as the eighth president of the United States...

Reducere. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U...

Reducere. Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole - this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundse...

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Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps.

Reducere. Veteran video game designer Dustin Hansen takes YA readers on a fun and fascinating trip through the brief but intensely innovative history of vide...

Reducere. The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock fas...

The compelling biography of the man who wrote the best selling book Warrior, by his grandson Brough Scott.

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Gerhard Bast was found shot in an abandoned bunker in northern Italy in April 1947. Pollack digs deeply into the archives and travels to the places...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frances WilsonIllustration(s): B&W illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 202...

This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. Taking this as a starting point, poet Adam Horovitz reaches back through myth, memory ...

Can the world be governed by agreement rather than conflict? In 1945 the world's powerful nation states came together to 'save succeeding generatio...

Reducere. In a novel that closely parallels author John Dos Passos's own ideological struggles during the Spanish Civil War, protagonist Glenn Spotswood, an ...

Reducere. DescriptionAlan Turing: Enigma: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Cracked The CodeIf you have ever used a computer, you owe that joy to Alan...

Reducere. Ruler, scholar, statesman, and devout man of faith; Mansa Musa was a 14th century African emperor who reigned over the Mali Empire from 1312 to 133...

Reducere. "Darkness fell almost immediately, and everything became extraordinarily still. The silence of an African jungle on a dark night needs to be experi...

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In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebrid...

Reducere. Considered to be one of the most famous stories of man-eating lions in modern times, "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo" is the first-hand account of Lieutan...

Reducere. As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mis...

Reducere. Considered one of the best books on Native Americans ever written. The author and compiler reveals how Indians once lived and what they believed in...

Set in 1968, the year of Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech, The Nowhere Man is an intricate, perceptive tragedy of alienation center...

So too is the story of how, on the brink of despair, Mark began the greatest battle of his life - to walk again and, using state-of-the-art 'bionic...

Reducere. A resident of Saint George Island explores the talents and motivation that led a poet and evangelist to purchase the island in 1916. The charismati...

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan.

* First volume of three recounting the dramatic story of England, from ancient times to the present day, by the No. 1 bestselling author of THE YEA...

Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a bewi...

He launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless de...