The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War, Paperback - Joshua Kurlantzick

Reducere. How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...

The book's premise is that a 100 Years War started in 1914 that rages ever onward onto the present day. It began as a European Civil War that event...

A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and...

The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I - Mark Ethan Grotelueschen

Reducere. Shell shock, battle fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, lack of moral courage: different terms for the same mental condition, formal names that...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsDecades after Jessica Mitford stunned America with vivid accounts of corruption and abuse in the death industry, not much has improv...

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

A compelling and timely account of the corruption, corporatization, and militarization of science in the United States.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAu...

Reducere. This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resour...

In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Robert Kagan explained why America is much more adversarial--likely to rely on legal threats and ...

In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the bas...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism offers "a compelling and cogent argument that eating healthily ough...

Contributor(s): Author: Julie GarwoodA woman's life and love are compromised in this pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling aut...

Reducere. War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite man fo...

Reducere. Dismissed as a "gaudy liar" by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Julie GarwoodNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 209 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. "Alex Heard has crafted a memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory." --Jon Meacham In this grippi...

Reducere. Considered one of the best books on Native Americans ever written. The author and compiler reveals how Indians once lived and what they believed in...

The Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception, dishonour, incompetence and dereliction of duty by Lord Chelmsford who invaded Zululand without the knowle...

Reducere. Can ghoti really be pronounced fish? Why is o short in glove and love, but long in rove and cove? Why do English words carry such extra baggage as ...

Reducere. Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, an...

The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more tha...

Reducere. In his 1983 classic The Poverty of Affluence, Paul Wachtel examines the psychological underpinnings of our insatiable desire for growth, and endles...

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

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

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

Reducere. A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award win...

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Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles aga...

During WWII, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were euthanized in Britain. In The Great Cat and Dog Massacre, Hilda Kean unearths the history, pi...

An amazingly fresh approach to a much covered subject.... TR's Last War is a riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for m...

Reducere. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

Drawing on a wealth of material from the vast Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, this book offers insight into life on the front line: from the day...

DescriptionFrightened by their new teacher, Ava, Ellie and Griffin are not excited about the new school year. Their fear is replaced with curiosity...

The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1...

A sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Robert Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is b...

Reducere. How can a loving God send people to hell? Isn't it arrogant to believe Jesus is the only way to God? What is up with holy war in the Old Testament?...

Reducere. Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joshua David StoneLives and teachings of 40 of the world's greatest saints and spirituals beacons provide a blueprint for t...

The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more tha...

Reducere. 20th Anniversary Edition Featuring a New Preface from David Deida Though much has changed in society since the first publication of The Way of the ...

An in-depth history of the little-studied Ninth South African Frontier War of 1877-78.Illustrations: 16 black and white illustrations, 7 black and ...

Reducere. Lukas Prize ProjectWinner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New Engl...

Reducere. Resurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Brita...

Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mo...

`Thompson's best work of the past three decades' New York Times Book Review

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert M. CitinoFor Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ("short and lively")--wars...