The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising, Paperback - Robert Shogan

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On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assiste...

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Reducere. DescriptionOn October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Caro...

Reducere. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if ...

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...

Reducere. "A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road somewhere, " President Lyndon Johnson told a senator in March 1965. "But there ain't no dayli...

Reducere. On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With ...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Robert LaceyNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 203 x 46Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

Reducere. Commonwealth Club of California Book Award winner, Californiana category On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle a...

A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the authorities with mocking notes telling where he would strike next. Th...

Reducere. Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn when he described it nearly seventy years later. A six-y...

Reducere. In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of Verdun, then keep reading...Today, the landscape is marked by shell craters, pillb...

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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Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Blair DavisIllustration(s): 15 photographsNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 153 x...

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In this third volume of The Deals of Warren Buffett, we trace Warren Buffett's journey as he made Berkshire Hathaway the largest company in America...

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Reducere. Burn Boston Burn-The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country is an astounding true crime narration. A conspiracy of 9 men, including 3 Bos...

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Reducere. This remarkable and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of Canada's western mountain glaciers through stunning photography, persona...

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

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In Battle of the Big Hole, noted historian Aubrey Haines has compiled the many written and first-person accounts of this historic moment in the Ind...

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Reducere. The Battle of Perryville laid waste to more than just soldiers and their supplies. The commonwealth's largest combat engagement also took an immens...

Reducere. Mountain Troops And Medics is a complete World War II Combat History of the U.S. Tenth Mountain Division written by Albert H. Meinke, Jr., M.D., wh...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction of the competing lines and their unification *Includes online resources and a bibliograph...

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Reducere. A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class...

Reducere. Beautiful. Disturbing. Enlightening.Beginning in the 1920s, a man named Julius Streicher published a small weekly German newspaper called Der Stürm...

The Battle of the White Mountain and the Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622 not only looks at the battle, but also the armies and campaigns leading up to t...