Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era (Revised), Paperback - David Halberstam

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign ...

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Two hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join togethe...

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned an...

Reducere. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American lif...

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Reducere. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American lif...

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Reducere. Many books have been written about the Vietnam War. Most of them are just overviews of events and often focus on the political aspect of the confli...

Reducere. Many books have been written about the Vietnam War. Most of them are just overviews of events and often focus on the political aspect of the confli...

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Reducere. The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what...

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A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous...

Reducere. This timeless memoir documents two sisters' bravery leading up to WWII--a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity's dark...

Reducere. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century showcases the best sports journalists of the twentieth century, from Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, Willi...

Reducere. The year is 1969. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Upstate New York hosts an outdoor concert called Woodstock. The Vietnam war rages on. Tom Combs...

The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict...

Reducere. Are you curious to learn what happened after the US Civil War? Then dive into the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era The US Civil War br...

Are you curious to learn what happened after the US Civil War? Then dive into the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era!The US Civil War br...

Reducere. "A thrilling account that puts the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, billed as "the crime of the century, " in the context of the thousands of o...

A surgeon turned soldier. A courageous research mission. Will he survive his own wartime trauma?Texas, 1970. Vascular specialist Brian Levin has st...

This is the first volume of a Trilogy describing the naval rivalry between Britain and Germany that culminated in them becoming antagonists in the ...

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now a...

DescriptionA personal account of the courageous men of an Army Combat Engineer Battalion during our most unpopular war. They faced constant danger ...

Reducere. Like many other young men during the Vietnam War, Ed Corlew enlisted in hopes of having some influence regarding assignment--safety and training. I...

The relationship between Mexico and Cuba grabbed international headlines early in the 21st century due to a rift in a relationship generally unders...

Publisher: Kestrel Railway BooksAuthor(s): David LarkinIllustration(s): illNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 272 x 215 x 7Cover ...

Corporal Jacobs came to the war in Vietnam in late 1967 from the DMZ in Korea. He was a smart, thoughtful young leader who would do anything to acc...

Traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific ca...

Reducere. This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, li...

Reducere. Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967. They...

DescriptionDuring the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of Ameri...

'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve ext...

How has the Chinese central government been able to avoid the crippling hyperinflation that has bedeviled so many developing and centrally planned ...

Reducere. From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of a dogged s...

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Reducere. John Gotti was the last great leader of the Gambino crime family, the dominant Sicilian Mafia family of New York.Gotti had his fingers in everythin...

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Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. Th...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work t...

Reducere. The novel, Widow of the Free State of Jones, is about the courage of one woman who managed to survive the ravages of the Civil War as well as the w...

With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1, 500 African Americans who held political office...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...