The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost, Hardcover - Cathal Nolan

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they co...

DescriptionAt the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers"--those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill...

Reducere. "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril, " wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World Wa...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Indian Wars, then keep reading...Tree captivating manuscripts in one book: American Indian W...

Reducere. Description"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril, " wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history ...

IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it aga...

Reducere. DescriptionAn epic story of one man's devotion to the American cause In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold's treasonous attempt to han...

Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Indian Wars, then keep reading...Tree captivating manuscripts in one book: American Indian W...

DescriptionWhat set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the...

Bartlett goes beyond Rorke's Drift to tell the largely forgotten story of how the Anglo-Zulu war was really won and lost.Publisher: Amberley Publis...

Reducere. Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Gra...

Finally lays to rest the myth that the Hurricane won the Battle of Britain rather than the numerically inferior, yet more glamorous, Spitfire.

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Sparta, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Spartans: A Captivating Gu...

Reducere. Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native Ame...

Reducere. DescriptionRyan, a physician, offers a history of the cure for tuberculosis, including accounts of the people and scientists involved. The final ch...

Reducere. For the first time in paperback, the culminating novel of Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Jo Walton's stunning Small Change trilogy. Following the awa...

An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Pierre Singa...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then keep reading... This cultural prominence was on full display during these wa...

Reducere. Before Jo Walton won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her stunning Among Others, she published a trilogy set in a dark alternate postwar England that...

Reducere. By late June 1862, the Union army, under George B. McClellan, stood at the doorstep of Richmond. In a desperate hour for the Confederate capital, R...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Napoleonic...

Reducere. Susan Cerulean's memoir trains a naturalist's eye and a daughter's heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time...

Reducere. So you know about engines. And you may have read some of the Haynes manuals, the "Holley Carburetors" and the "How-to..." books. Maybe you know how...

Reducere. DescriptionFr. Donald Calloway, MIC, calls this book, "Anointed ", Exorcist Fr. Gary Thomas, subject of the movie, "The Rite, " says, "OF MEN AND M...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Frederic ShoberlNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 227 x 182 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Greco-Persian Wars, then keep reading...This cultural prominence was on full display during ...

A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who'd long been unable to communicate--until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young w...

Reducere. When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of Antietam, then keep reading...On September 17th, 1862, US President Abraham Lincol...

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Today, visitors and locals in Greenville enjoy a vibrant, diverse and acclaimed culinary scene. Some will remember recent favorites like the Americ...

DescriptionThe Battle of Kursk was one of the defining moments of World War II. In July 1943, German forces under Erich von Manstein--one of German...

A broad-based coalition of conservative southern politicians, countercultural activists, environmental scientists, sportsmen, devout Christians, ga...

Contributor(s): Author: Arlette FargeForeword by: Natalie Zemon DavisTranslator: Thomas Scott-RailtonAn exquisite appreciation of the distinctive r...

Reducere. The first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam...

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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abra...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 110 color platesNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 180 x 232 x 25Cove...

The Allure of Charleston celebrates this historic city's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century styles and demonstrates how they continue to be employe...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..

From the internationally acclaimed holocaust writer, this is a haunting memoir that tells of the key moments in her life that have shaped her as a ...

Reducere. So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An A...

Reducere. DescriptionFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers...