Some Other War

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America, Hardcover - Thomas J. Brown

659,99 RON

This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a na...

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Battle Carried: Imperial Japanese Tiger Art Good Luck Flags of World War Two, Hardcover - Michael A. Bortner

482,99 RON 516,99 RON

Reducere. No other animal served to inspire and motivate the Japanese warrior in World War Two more than the magnificent tiger. From the author of "Imperial ...

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The Complete Mahabharata-Vol 01, Hardcover - Ramesh Menon

464,99 RON 497,99 RON

Reducere. The Mahabharata of Veda Vyasa is the longest recorded epic in the world. With almost 100, 000 verses, it is many times as long as the Iliad and the...

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Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table, Hardcover - Cita Stelzer

379,99 RON 406,99 RON

Reducere. A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill...

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Global Ethics: An Introduction, Paperback - Heather Widdows

364,99 RON

Global ethics addresses some of the most pressing ethical concerns today, including rogue states, torture, scarce resources, poverty, migration, co...

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SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944 History of the Second World War - M. R. D. Foot

361,99 RON 387,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British secret service, formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance to Hitler's Germ...

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Of Blood and Battles: Oswego's 147th Regiment, Paperback - Natalie Joy Woodall

357,99 RON 383,99 RON

Reducere. Organized in late August and early September, 1862 the 147th Regiment was nicknamed the "Oswego Plowboys." The soldiers in this organization partic...

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Mars Adapting: Military Change During War, Hardcover - Frank G. Hoffman

346,99 RON 371,99 RON

Reducere. As Clausewitz observed, In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. The essence of war is a competitive reciprocal relatio...

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Folklore in Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence, Paperback - Sadhana Naithani

323,99 RON

DescriptionFolklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the ...

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Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War, Hardcover - David Silkenat

311,99 RON 333,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

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Gerhard Richter: War Cut (English Edition), Hardcover - Gerhard Richter

305,00 RON

In 1988, Gerhard Richter created one of the most controversial and fascinating political painting-cycles of all time, with his Baader-Meinhof serie...

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Cyber Warfare Ethics, Paperback - Michael Skerker

301,99 RON 323,99 RON

Reducere. Cyber technology gives states the ability to accomplish effects that once required kinetic action. These effects can now be achieved with cyber mea...

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"they Are All Red Out Here": Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925, Hardcover - Jeffrey A. Johnson

299,99 RON 320,99 RON

Reducere. One of early-twentieth-century America's most fertile grounds for political radicalism, the Pacific Northwest produced some of the most dedicated a...

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After the Holocaust: Human Rights and Genocide Education in the Approaching Post-Witness Era, Paperback - Charlotte Schallié

285,99 RON 306,99 RON

Reducere. After the Holocaust brings together scholarship, activism, poetry, and personal narratives from some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust ...

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Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864, Paperback - Albert Castel

282,99 RON

Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the North can remove their dead and wounded. For two hours, Yankees and Rebels mingle, ...

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A History of Japan, 1334-1615, Paperback - George Sansom

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History....

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America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror, Paperback - Jeffrey A. Engel

272,99 RON 292,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jeffrey A. EngelEditor: Mark Atwood LawrenceEditor: Andrew PrestonHow should America wield its enormous power beyond its bo...

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No Conquest, No Defeat: Iran's National Security Strategy, Hardcover - Ariane M. Tabatabai

268,99 RON

In early 2019, the Islamic Republic of Iran marked its fortieth anniversary, despite decades of isolation, political pressure, sanctions and war. O...

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Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War, Paperback - Zachariah Cherian Mampilly

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequentl...

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Samuel Johnson: Selected Works, Hardcover - Samuel Johnson

256,99 RON

A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain's pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel John...

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Armored Thunderbolt: The U.S. Army Sherman in World War II, Hardcover - Steven Zaloga

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II Compares the Sherman to other t...

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The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew, Paperback - Michael M. Walker

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. Arthur Goodzeit Award For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern ...

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Vietnam by Chinook: A Ch-47 Crew Chief During the TET Offensive, Paperback - Edward Corlew

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

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...

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Genesis and Structure of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit, Paperback - Jean Hyppolite

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. Jean Hyppolite produced the first French translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. His major works--the translation, his commentary, and Logi...

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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, Paperback - Heather Andrea Williams

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

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The Men of the Khaki Cloth: U.S. Army Chaplain and Soldier Gear in WWII, Hardcover - Tim Scherrer

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

Reducere. The US Army Chaplain Corps served with distinction during WWII. Chaplains numbered 8, 896 by the end of WWII with 186 perishing in combat, a commis...

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Warlord Arcanist, Hardcover - Shami Stovall

222,99 RON 238,99 RON

Reducere. Kings. Dragons. The start of an all-consuming war.As the twelve god-creatures appear in the world, nations brace for a inevitable struggle. Some ha...

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The Pleiades and Our Secret Destiny, Hardcover - Frederick Dodson

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. This book tells the story of the authors personal encounters with blue-skinned beings from the Pleiades as well as other amazing encounters with st...

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British Cruiser Warfare: The Lessons of the Early War 1939-1941, Hardcover - Alan Raven

220,99 RON

DescriptionCruisers were the Navy's maids-of-all-work employed in a greater variety of roles than any other warship type. Smaller faster and far mo...

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The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan, Hardcover - Steven Casey

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

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The Pawnee Indians, Paperback - George E. Hyde

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. No assessment of the Plains Indians can be complete without some account of the Pawnees. They ranged from Nebraska to Mexico and, when not fighting...

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Civil War Medicine: A Surgeon's Diary, Hardcover - Robert Hicks

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. In this never before published diary, 29-year-old surgeon James Fulton transports readers into the harsh and deadly conditions of the Civil War as ...

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Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands, Hardcover - Michael B. Barrett

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25, 000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a h...

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Echoes of Our War: Vietnam Veterans Reflect 50 Years Later, Paperback - Robert L. Fischer

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. Fifty years after he served in Vietnam as an advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Corps, Marine Colonel Robert Fischer, a former lecturer on "Strategy ...

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Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia, Hardcover - Jingle Davis

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. Eighty miles south of Savannah lies St. Simons Island, one of the most beloved seaside destinations in Georgia and home to some twenty thousand yea...

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Ender in Exile: Limited Edition, Hardcover - Orson Scott Card

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's G...

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Autobiographical Writings, Paperback - Arthur Machen

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) has gained deserved celebrity for his tales of horror ("The Great God Pan, " "The White People"), his ...

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The Otter and his Hawk: A Warrior's Approach to Surviving WW2, Paperback - Robert H. Sabet

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. Grey Otter, a half Cherokee man also known as Skeeter Vaughan, the legendary knife and tomahawk thrower; devised a tomahawk fighting system during ...

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With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era, Paperback - William A. Blair

209,99 RON

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

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Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America, Paperback - William C. Davis

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. William C. Davis, "one of the best and most prolific historians of the American Civil War" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom), o...

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Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement, Hardcover - Phoebe S. K. Young

209,99 RON

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and po...

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When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History, Paperback - Daniel Schlozman

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with politic...

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Mayday: Air Crash Investigation, Hardcover - Bruce Hales-Dutton

204,99 RON 219,99 RON

Reducere. From the fearless test pilots and the very first commercial jet airliners of the post war years the Constellation and the Comet. With in depth anal...

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Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century, Paperback - Paul Kengor

204,99 RON

In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: th...

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Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm, Hardcover - Jonathan Dimbleby

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. Author of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of ...

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The Traders' War, Paperback - Charles Stross

201,99 RON 216,99 RON

Reducere. The Traders' War -- an omnibus edition of the third and fourth novels in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series.Miriam was an ambitious business ...

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Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age, Hardcover - Gabrielle Decamous

198,99 RON

DescriptionHow art makes visible what had been invisible--the effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and the politics of the ato...

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Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome, Hardcover - Lindsay Powell

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. BAR KOKHBA is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation.One was Hadrian, the cos...

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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition), Paperback - Francis Paul Prucha

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. "This is Francis Paul Prucha's magnum opus. It is a great work. . . . This study will . . . be] a standard by which other studies of American India...

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Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World, Hardcover - Andrew Phillips

193,99 RON

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to...

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The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age, Hardcover - Robert Aquinas McNally

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

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The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, Paperback - Stephen Cushman

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. In December 1885, under the watchful eye of Mark Twain, the publishing firm of Charles L. Webster and Company released the first volume of the Pers...

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Goodbye, Rudy Kazoody, Hardcover - A. a. Freda

188,99 RON

DescriptionWho is the mysterious Rudy Kazoody, and what, if anything, did he have to do with the events that occurred to a group of teenagers durin...

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Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History, Hardcover - Volker Koos

188,99 RON

DescriptionFounded in 1925 in Warnem nde, Arado-Flugzeugwerke, from the outset, produced civil aircraft as well as developing prototypes for the cl...

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The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973, Paperback - Kathleen J. Frydl

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 argues that the U.S. government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effec...

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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code, Hardcover - Sam Kean

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. Award NameLiterary AwardAward categoryScienceFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language...

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The Class of 1968: A Thread through Time, Paperback - Doris Townsend Gaines

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. Born in the late 1940's and early 50's and raised in a segregated town in southern Mississippi, a group of Black girls and boys came of age togethe...

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Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs, Hardcover - James Sullivan

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "protest" singer. As early as 1962, howeve...

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150 Years of Racing in Saratoga: Little-Known Stories & Facts from America's Most Historic Racing City, Hardcover - Allan Carter

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. Since the inaugural meeting was held in August 1863, Saratoga Springs has been the scene of memorable races, often featuring legends of the sport. ...

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Hall of Mirrors: Virginia Hall: America's Greatest Spy of WWII, Hardcover - Craig Gralley

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn World War II France, she went by the name of Marie. Or Brigitte. Or any of a half dozen other names. Some saw her as a middle-aged ne...

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Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict Through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians, Hardcover - Gary W. Gallagher

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective pa...

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Apaches at War and Peace: The Janos Presidio, 1750-1858, Paperback - William B. Griffen

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. Apaches at War and Peace is the story of the Chiricahua Apaches on the northern frontier of New Spain from 1750 to 1858, especially those within th...

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Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide, Paperback - Richard H. King

174,99 RON

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The...

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Grandma's Wartime Baking Book: World War II and the Way We Baked, Hardcover - Joanne Lamb Hayes

173,99 RON

Learn to Make Classic American Pies, Cakes and Tarts It is dawn of the 1940s and America is in the midst of a difficult war. The women of the Home ...

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Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy, Paperback - Gi-Wook Shin

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Be...

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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, Paperback - Rosemary Sullivan

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed retired F...

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The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America, Hardcover - Carolyn Cox

170,99 RON

Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom k...

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Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust, Hardcover - Doreen Rappaport

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews dur...

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Pikes Peak: Adventurers, Communities and Lifestyles, Hardcover - Sherry Monahan

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Before being "discovered" by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806, the Pikes Peak region was home to a variety of different cultures, including Nativ...

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The Civil War at Perryville: Battling for the Bluegrass, Hardcover - Christopher L. Kolakowski

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDesperate to seize control of Kentucky, the Confederate army launched an invasion into the commonwealth in the fall of 1862, viciously c...

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