Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy, Paperback - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds

Reducere. Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir r...

Nurse and Spy is a record of events which transpired in the experience of military life in Camp, Field and Hospital during the Civil War. The autho...

This is the incredible true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who dressed as a man and fought in the Civil War. When she was 19, Sarah cut her hair, don...

Reducere. Description1861: as America erupts into civil war, Emma Edmonds is roused to such intense patriotism that she joins the Union army...as a man. Rais...

When Georges moves into a new apartment block he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Soon Georges has become his spy recruit. To tra...

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Jada Sly, a hilarious and spunky artist and spy with a flair for all things French, is on a mission to find her mom while dealing with all the craz...

Reducere. In the murky world of espionage few rules apply. Everything is permitted in the name of state security - even talking to the country's Enemy No. 1....

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BLUE MEMOIRS: Faces, Places, and Lives of a U.S. Spy/Counterspy is the remarkable adventure of a French-American born in Maine who diligently worke...

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Reducere. The Gift of Bravery is the story of how an ordinary man was transformed into an extraordinary spy and of the brilliant contributions he made to his...

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes ...

DescriptionDelivering welfare babies, warding off voodoo spells, and living in a town that still seems to be fighting the Civil War-small wonder yo...

Billy isn't happy with his house or his toys until an enchanted tree takes him on a journey that will forever change the way he views happiness.Tre...

The dramatic memoirs of a machine-gunner on the Eastern Front. Gives a brutal and detailed account of fighting in Stalingrad and the frozen retreat...

Reducere. In this genre-bending, speculative historical novel set in Europe at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, Austrian composer and spy, Phillipe Wo...

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Written by Scott Moncrieff's great-great-niece, Jean Findlay, with exclusive access to the family archive, this book presents a portrait of a man h...

Mary Hays's first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796), transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the m...

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Evelyn Harbinger is a heck of a lot older than she looks. At 149 years of age, Eve can still iron out the wrinkles on a Saturday night, turning hea...

Reducere. Born into poverty in a racially segregated Amercia, Josephine Baker flees to France where she embraces the hedonistic lifestyle on offer in Paris o...

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Reducere. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard f...

The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, joining Special ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MS Sibel D. EdmondsIn this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds-the most classified woman in U.S. history-takes us on a surr...

Reducere. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) is one of the earliest autobiographies of a mixed-race woman. In her autobiography, Seaco...

Madge Addy was a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, her story is a truly remarkable one....

Edward Bunker's life was beyond the imaginings of most fiction writers. He was born in Hollywood, California, the son of a stagehand and Busby Berk...

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Reducere. Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the firs...

Reducere. The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author,...

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Reducere. The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-D...

An atmospheric novel from an award-winning writer, columnist, and former priest in the Church of England. Set in 1949, as Charles I prepares to be ...

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Reducere. DescriptionA bride-to-be without answers. A soldier who never came home. A nutcracker that might hold one last Christmas wish...World War II has be...

Her rugged Highlander...

A moving and thought-provoking story of loss and war from the Director of the Ukrainian institute, told in a powerful blend of memoir and essayPubl...

Reducere. This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went-and how 2021 is going.In 2020 there were roughly four million nur...

Baker by day, spy by night - Alice Eclair leads an exciting double life!A mysterious message sends Alice on a mission aboard France's most glamorou...

Reducere. Description"A truly inspiring story of courage and triumph."--Nelson DeMille The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African America...

Reducere. Exiled Emissary is a biography of the colorful life of George H. Earle, III - a Main Line Philadelphia millionaire, war hero awarded the Navy Cross...

Description1940s, Washington DC. Government girl Louise is blackmailed into investigating the suspicious death of a missing co-worker, with siniste...

John Dixon Hunt's new biography takes a fresh look at the life and work of 17th-century English writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn. Hunt disc...