The Day War Came

Reducere. A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to ...

Reducere. Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times-bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day--June...

Reducere. War is the 2nd book in The Four Horsemen Series. They came to earth - Pestilence, War, Famine, Death - four horsemen riding their screaming steeds,...

Reducere. They came to earth-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death-four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen wi...

Reducere. The world is hungry to have an awakening. Hope and purpose are just waiting to be discovered. This is my guidebook.In 1938, a three-year-old Bavari...

"Well there it is. It won't work, but you must bloody well make it, " said the chief of Britain's military leaders, when he gave orders to begin pl...

From }The Paper Dolls{ artist Rebecca Cobb, a story inspired by the British government's refusal of three-thousand child refugees in 2016. Focuses ...

Reducere. Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research labo...

Reducere. "Slaughter vividly conveys the reality of combat during World War II in his book with sweeping passages that literally place his reader on the batt...

Reducere. This book is one of honor and patriotism and is a true story. This book tells of one man's many struggles manning three of the United States nuclea...

Investigate the factors that led to war Examine key turning points, including D-Day and Hiroshima Get to know the opposing forces -- the Allies and...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter standing for over 7, 000 years, Aleppo's ruin came overnight. Separated from his family during the night the rebels attacked the c...

Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New ...

Reducere. She ran away through the pine trees when the soldiers came. Staggering into the hiding place, she felt a fluttering in her belly, like a butterfly ...

Reducere. The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war in Europe from Ma...

Reducere. On War (1832) is a treatise on the philosophical aspects of warfare by Prussian general, scholar, and strategist Carl von Clausewitz. Published pos...

Reducere. Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign inde...

Reducere. Building forts, excursions to the park, enduring art and music lessons with his buddies formed the fabric of Jim Ling's early childhood in the glit...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertA "magisterial" (The New York Times) single-volume history of WWII It began with the German invasion of Polan...

DescriptionCould history have been different? This gripping book looks at top-secret plots that never saw the light of day . . . and considers what...

Reducere. In November 1941, the war that had been raging in Europe since 1939 and in China since 1937 was coming closer and closer to the United States. The ...

The vivid memoirs of a combat infantryman of the 99th Division, whose unit was at the forefront of the Battle of the Bulge and the subsequent advan...

World wars opened the gate for the creation of the United Nations on October 24, 1945. The UN edict gave legal birth to the nation of Israel on May...

Reducere. Major General Smedley D Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of Honour, a true 'fighting marine' whose courage an...

DescriptionThe most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until ...

Reducere. Fear, and man's attempt to master it, is of eternal interest and just as significant today as when Moran, as a young medical officer, went to the t...

Reducere. My life had a plan. Until he invaded it and stole it all away. My captor took me and I became a pawn. His strategy changed and he sent me away to W...

Reducere. When was the last time someone around you brought up World War Two? It's a pretty popular war. Maybe you heard about it yesterday. Maybe last month...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill O'NeillWhen was the last time someone around you brought up World War Two? It's a pretty popular war. Maybe you heard ...

The story of one of the first qualified paratroopers, who went on to work in covert operations for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). It offer...

The first settler to make permanent residence in the Abilene area arrived in 1856. From the humble beginnings of a prairie dugout, Abilene grew to ...

Reducere. DescriptionLong before condominiums appeared on the Florida coastline, itinerant fishing parties visited the barrier islands along the Pinellas pen...

Reducere. #1 Best Seller and Winner of The 2021 International Book Awards."The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helples...

Reducere. #1 Best Seller and Winner of The 2021 International Book Awards."The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helpless as...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the firebombing by both Americans and Japanese civilians in Tokyo *Includes online resources and a bibliog...

Reducere. A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club. In the spring of 1862, many American...

"[A] remarkable life story" -Senator Bob Dole I'll See You Again, Lady Liberty is the story of a young German whose father dared to rip a required ...

Reducere. James Jones's saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published and including a new foreword by his dau...

Reducere. As the nineteenth century became the twentieth and the dangers of rampant nationalism became more evident, people throughout the world embraced the...

Reducere. From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret OrphanA world at warA secret from her pastA chance to be together...A moving and compelli...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Probably much of the confusio...

Reducere. The USA Today Bestseller!A world at warA secret from her pastA chance to be together...A moving and compelling historical novel about love, second ...

Reducere. The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removin...

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series First Edition 2014 Inducted in 1942, Johnson went through pilot training, followed by airborne operations f...

Reducere. Lily Larsen has never been afraid of anything, yet the effects of the war are wearing her down. Her beautiful home in Cades Cove, Tennessee, lies d...

Reducere. This booklet contains the texts used by Orthodox Christians for prayer services offered on behalf of the living and the dead, in the form commonly ...

Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 19...

Reducere. Three of the great American novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the incomparable chronicler of the Jazz Age, are all together in one keepsake volume. F....

Reducere. Spur Awards One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. "Goodbye ...

DescriptionFocusing on its design, development and deployment during the Cold War, this title charts the history of the groundbreaking B-58 Hustler...

Reducere. Originally published in 2001. From the foreword: "In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air ...

Reducere. On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160, 000 Ame...

Reducere. From the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta--the definitive account of the Trump administration's tragic mismanagement...

Reducere. Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippin...

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...

Reducere. Sorghum & Spear is an African fantasy saga of young girls called to serve their people in a time of war during their ages of innocence. For a young...

The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Publi...

Reducere. A modification of the 2-ton "deuce", the DUKW amphibious truck was designed in 1942 by a team that included a British sailor, an American yacht bui...

Reducere. "Drugs as Weapons Against Us" meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achi...

"The Essence of Ninjutsu." Written during the Ninja "boom" of the early 1900's, Gingetsu Itoh seeks to dispel the myth that Ninjutsu is an art comp...

A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. ...

Reducere. One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately ...

Reducere. One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately ...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring his long life, the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley knew just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Winston Churchi...

Reducere. During his long life, the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley knew just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Winston Churchill, Frankli...

Reducere. From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children--``brillia...

DescriptionRichard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol ...

Reducere. When you hear a familiar song play on the radio, immediately, it takes you back--back to your childhood, your first love, cruising with friends in ...

Reducere. In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Willi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book opens with an outline of the history of Almaty, from its nineteenth-century origins as a remote outpost of the Russian empire, ...