Letters of Note: War, Paperback - ***

A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with war at their heart, curated by the founder of the glo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carleton YoungImagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of letters written during the Civil War. Face...

Reducere. "I don't know how long before i shall have to go into the field of battle. For my part i don't care. I don't feel afraid to go. I don't believe the...

Reducere. Finalist, 2018 International Book AwardsA young man from a gritty Pennsylvania mill town enlists in the Army Air Corps and heads for Hawaii, the "P...

Tony was an urbane, witty, college-educated Long Island boy whose WWII army career was recorded in 256 letters sent home to his parents as he lived...

Reducere. 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean, ' wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance. Ro...

"You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and...

DescriptionA landing beach in France, exploding under fire and littered with wounded men. Grim surgeries performed in a captured pillbox, in an orc...

Reducere. A poignant and true story about love, loss, and family strength during World War One is now available in paperback During World War One, a young gi...

Reducere. "How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home, " says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkne...

With 2008 being the 90th anniversary of World War I and the BBC doing a documentary on Vera Brittian in November, this has plenty of marketing pote...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan VermilyeThe most trusted study guide to learning The Screwtape Letters Reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis can...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan VermilyeHelp Teens Study and Share The Screwtape Letters For over 70 years, teenagers have loved reading The Screwtape...

The glitzy days of 1920s New York meet the devastation of those left behind in World War II in a new, delectable historical novel from USA Today be...

Reducere. Elaine was typing out letters from POWs and reminding herself that she would not cry. Poor Sam in Burma doubted whether he would ever see his child...

Between Home and the Front offers not only a unique first-person account from those that experienced the Civil War but an annotation in meticulous ...

Reducere. Dear Friend provides weekly meditation readings. Each reading has an associated journal page to note your reflections during the week. Very helpful...

Reducere. An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, hear...

Reducere. The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most dif...

Reducere. In 1966, during the Vietnam War, Joan Hunter, an ordinary housewife, mother of four from the small, idyllic coastal town of Scituate, MA, spearhead...

Reducere. The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II First published in 194...

Reducere. Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean t...

Reducere. Four Brothers From Lowell tells the harrowing true life tale of the four Turcotte boys from Lowell, Massachusetts, who served in the United States ...

Reducere. Rabbi Lewis was deployed to Vietnam as an Army chaplain from 1970 to 1971 to be present with Jewish personnel in the Central Highlands. Serving men...

Reducere. The Bible is not an ordinary book. Reading the Bible can seem like a very daunting task. Love Letters from God: Walking in the Word will help you g...

Reducere. Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on the Battle of Antietam. The Civil...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author comes an enthralling historical story inspired by true events - a brilliant, lonely young man and the or...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Reducere. Whether they came from Sioux Falls or the Bronx, over half a million Jews entered the U.S. armed forces during the Second World War. Uprooted from ...

'Ranks as a towering work of historical research and writing' - Nigel Jones, BBC History Magazine In the second volume of his acclaimed new history...

Reducere. During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forc...

During World War II the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war in the West. But ...

Reducere. 'A fascinating and moving portrait of love, loyalty and infidelity.' Sarah WatersA sudden death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of love le...

This is an engaging account of how a young couple from the hills of middle Tennessee endured the darkest years in our nation's history. Their own w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susan May Warren"The kind of story that is perfect for being snowed in with." - blogger A.M. Heath Five near-strangers. One...

Reducere. DescriptionMusic and war, war and music--these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the...

Reducere. As American troops continue their steady exodus on the last day of their ground war in Vietnam, Lieutenant Joe Tallon is shot down by an enemy miss...

Reducere. "Both Mann and Hesse were charged with ... energy. Mann, the resident of cities (particularly his beloved Munich) poured his uncertainty and his co...

Reducere. DescriptionThe challenge of a seemingly genocidal God who commands ruthless warfare has bewildered Bible readers for generations. The theme of divi...

Reducere. Such was the revulsion in the United States over the purported murder of William Morgan, an upstate New Yorker who in 1826 disappeared after threat...

DescriptionBeneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I, from the New York Times bestsel...

Reducere. This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views ...

When Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle's lakeside house, he finds traces of the dark secrets of his family's past. The early inhabitants of the h...

Reducere. A not-untroubled tribute and a difficult elegy, Shellback traces the attachment of a daughter to her father from her childhood days of trying "to b...

Reducere. Forgiveness is the deadliest force on earth.War might be raging overseas, but Rose Onishi is on track to fulfill her lifelong goal of becoming a co...

Reducere. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, ruler of the mightiest empire on earth. Upo...

Reducere. Hero - Martyr - PoetThe inspiring story of a remarkable life cut short. "I don't think Hannah wanted to die for the sake of having her memory exalt...

Dear Madam -- You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe and this letter will not astonish you. In August 1939, just...

Reducere. "Not since I read Erik Larson's Dead Wake have I had such an edge-of-my-seat immersion into historical events. ...] No study of Alexander Hamilton ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles HuntWhile most of us who grew up in the late 60s and early 70s sentimentalize the flower-covered VWs, the Beatles, ...

From the author: When I was sifting through copies of my pseudonymous erotic novels of the early 1960s, deciding which books to republish, HIGH SCH...

Reducere. "A Free Woman On God's Earth" The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, The Slave Who WOn Her Freedom is the inspiring story of Mumbet, an ensl...

Reducere. Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeWhen Mavala Shikongo deserted them, the teachers at the boys' school in Goas weren't surprised. How could they be?...

Reducere. The world is a mess. I thought it needed a book that was fun and easy to read. This book is it. It takes you through the tears and terrors of child...

As a veteran campaigner, the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582-602) compiled a unique and influential handbook intended for the field commander. In th...

Reducere. "My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association . . . A detailed a...

General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the dis...

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. The Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was i...

Three years into the Great War, England's greatest asset is their intelligence network--field agents risking their lives to gather information, and...

Reducere. DescriptionThe idea that Jesus may never have actually existed has been around in modern scholarship for over a century, but it has never been suff...

Reducere. In his books--the memoir of the Second World War, the two large volumes on the presidency, the incomplete autobiography written near the end of his...

Reducere. On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3, 000 warriors of the Lakota ...

In this chilling tale from the bestselling author of Wall of Silence, a spark of malice ignites into an inferno of violence. Can one woman uncover ...

Reducere. To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

Reducere. They were the two youngest daughters of the world's most powerful man - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. Known to their family and friends as "The Litt...

Reducere. In 1739, Major George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. Soon after their arrival, England de...

Reducere. As you read Military Mom on a Mission you will discover the journey of a mother and her family as her son returned from the Iraqi war. She was comp...

Reducere. DescriptionTanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be tra...