The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age, Hardcover - Robert Aquinas McNally

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...

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

The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medic...

At the end of World War II, the international community deemed genocide a crime against humanity. Yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century it h...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Bill ShafferNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 216 x 150 x 30Cover type: HardbackR...

The dramatic, untold story of a brilliant team, the world's first digital electronic computer, and the race to decrypt the Nazis' toughest code Pla...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

Galahad in the Gilded Age is the story of George William Curtis, regarded at the beginning of his career as little more than a handsome, amusing yo...

"Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as s...

The People's Network reconstructs the story of U.S. and Canadian independent telephone companies which challenged the Bell System's market dominati...

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...

The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.

Reducere. The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the USWhile modern medici...

Reducere. When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastical...

Reducere. Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age""Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intend...

The surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the "midnight war" to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. It re...

Reducere. Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neig...

Publisher: Clinical Press LtdAuthor(s): Diana AshworthNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 200 x 23Cover type: Paperback / s...

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. ...

The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyber war against us-and how we've learned to fight back With each passing year, the internet-...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sir Charles Chadwyck-HealeyIllustration(s): 18 bw illusNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dim...

DescriptionThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international...

Arthur Curtiss James: Unsung Titan of the Gilded Age is about the extraordinary life and times of Arthur Curtis James, a relatively unknown railroa...

Reducere. DescriptionPoliticians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nati...

Reducere. First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooke...

Reducere. The Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer's comprehensive analysis of crimes of violence--including murder, assault, and ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Robert D. KaplanIllustration(s): 1 mapNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 243 x 3...

Opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful internat...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Emma ChapmanIllustration(s): black and white illustrations throughout and an 8-page colour sectionNu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert S. JohnsonAuthor: Martin CaidinThunderbolt , first published in 1958, is the memoir of Robert S. Johnson, one of the...

Reducere. In 1921, some 10, 000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched again...

From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year...

Reducere. DescriptionThe astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand d...

Reducere. One of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lawrence CappelloIllustration(s): 6 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Acclaimed naval historian Don Keith tells one of the most inspiring sea stories of World War II: the Japanese attack on the American oiler USS Neos...

Reducere. In early Irish society there existed an honoured group of people called the "Filid." They preserved the native stories and they were learned in the...

Reducere. Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when...

Contributor(s): Author: Doris L. BergenIn examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in ...

Reducere. From the grand majesty of the Breakers to the beautiful proportions of Rosecliff, these houses are enduring reminders of the architectural flowerin...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Armenian Genocide, then keep reading...During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian ...

Reducere. The surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the "midnight war" to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. It re...

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. Holocaust survivor, Sol Rosenberg, relates his inspiring story through his good friend Richard Chardkoff. From his stable family life in Warsaw to ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...