The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power, Paperback - Marc Wortman

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DescriptionThis book provides an overview of the history of allied medicine in the Great War. Based on both primary research and secondary literatu...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of Davy Crockett, then keep reading...If, as historian Thomas Carlyle said, the history of the worl...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Davy Crockett, then keep reading...If, as historian Thomas Carlyle said, the history of the worl...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Herbert J. SternNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 32Cover type: Paperback ...

Although few recognize the name of Bras-Coup today, Bryan Wagner's riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coup illustrates why the saga of th...

Publisher: American Oriental SocietyAuthor(s): Michael BonnerNumber of pages: 238Collection: American Oriental SeriesPublication date: 2013Dimensio...

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A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy"Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Marc W...

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With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

For fans of Century Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopNumber of pages: 384Publicati...

Documents the first time that the RAF struck back at Hitlers Reich.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Ken DelveIllustration(s): 200 B&W Pho...

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

"Lively and delightful...zooms in on the faces in the crowd to help us understand both the depth and the diversity of the women's suffrage movement...

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Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands War, April-June 1982.Publisher: John Blake Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Nigel ElyIllustrati...

In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric Ne...

After the Great War, Veterans were a new transnational mass phenomenon. This volume uses case studies to discuss the extent and impact of internati...

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For fans of The Century Girls and The Bletchley Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopN...

* A powerful and time-honoured collection of interviews with the veterans of Vietnam.

Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a ...

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The story of the First World War in the Middle East - and how it swept away five hundred years of Ottoman rule to lay the foundations for the troub...

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In this book Gail Ramsey sets out to show how the Western Front has been transformed over the past hundred years by juxtaposing aerial photographs,...

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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgr...

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Reducere. Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American...

Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book They are voi...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Marc SeiferNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 39Cover type: HardbackRe...

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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...

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Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefron...