History Man, Paperback

The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief "Fascinating...

New insights into the senior command levels of the United States fighting elite. Stories include accounts of men in battles from World War II. This...

Patrick O'Donnell achieved the status of a national hero when he killed Ireland's most infamous informer James Carey on board a steamship off the c...

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...

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...

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

The seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province, yet led a remarkably global life through schola...

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We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Kor...

* 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...

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...

Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. This book discusses...

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

Reducere. Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionBorn into the richest planter family in the Northern Neck of Virginia, Robert Carter III's life is anything but typical. A neighbor of G...

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...

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...

The gunfighter was a man bred in a lawless and violent era of civil war, range wars, and greed for land and gold. He played a real and deadly part ...

Reducere. "A rip-roaring tale...inspired by but not slavish to historical events of the Dark Ages, this book is full of twists and turns...A fast-moving, tho...

Reducere. My National Service (1955-1957): The Making of a Man is the story of young man who joined the British Army as an Infantry Soldier and served for tw...

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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. Per aspera ad astra - Through adversity to the starsMilan Rastislav Stef nik was great not only for the Slovaks, but also for the Czechs and the Fr...

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

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 ...

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...

Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poe...

Reducere. Before the first light of dawn on the morning of June twenty-second, 1941, Oskar Scheja stood on the western shore of the Bug River, looking to the...

DescriptionTo celebrate 50 years of the Man Booker Prize, the inaugural winner now returns to printNewby deserved, and deserves, more attention.—Th...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading To possess and develop western North America became...

Reducere. One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry...

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...

*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Ni...

A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada, where secrets ar...

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

Reducere. In Man and Mission: E. B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony, historian Paul Gaston relates his grandfather's 1864 founding o...

In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of ...

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

DescriptionThis official NASA history chronicles the behind-the-scenes conflicts and cooperation during the Apollo expeditions. It shows how the sp...

Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at...

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 ...

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 ...

Admired by some of the finest artists of the period, and familiar to millions around the world, over 100 of Matania's pictures are brought together...

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

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. There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three--Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Dar...

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...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Again he turned hi...

Reducere. Farris Lind was a fighter pilot, a crop duster, and in his later life, a victim of polio. He had a natural gift for promotion and an ability to tur...

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. FROM THE BOOK "The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size wit...

Reducere. A stunning biography of history's most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate...

Reducere. Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, ...

DescriptionWhat are the causes of war? How might the world be made more peaceful? In this landmark work of international relations theory, first pu...

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

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. 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...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Thorsten OpperIllustration(s): 280 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Di...

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...

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...

The international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

New paperback - 'Where he saw virtue, his contemporaries saw betrayal...What could he possibly have done to make a success of his reign? He was, it...

Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps.

6, 000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and the...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionBen really did not run away from home. He was still in the neighborhood, only it was 125 years earlier in time and the Battle of Gettysb...