The Greatest of All Leathernecks: John Archer LeJeune and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, Hardcover - Joseph Arthur Simon

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The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deep...

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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

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The life story of Muhammad Ali--boxing champion, humanitarian, civil rights activist, and philanthropist--in graphic novel format. Muhammad Ali: Th...

New insights into the senior command levels of the United States fighting elite. Stories include accounts of men in battles from World War II. This...

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Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

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The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

From Muhammad Ali's brother comes the most intimate biography ever written on the legendary sportsman.

An intimate biography of Muhammad Ali from his brother Rahaman Ali, painting an evocative, poignant and sometime surprising portrait.

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

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What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

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A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.Publisher: Profile Boo...

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The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device,...

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