The Seven Years' War, Paperback

Reducere. Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War in 1756; outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian ar...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I came here, where freedom is...

Reducere. Written 2, 500 years ago by Chinese General Sun Tzu, The Art of War is a poetic and potent treatise on military strategy still in use in war colleg...

Reducere. DescriptionThe greatest American disaster of the twentieth century, the Vietnam War. President Johnson and Nixon both lied to the American public t...

Reducere. The remarkable life story of Mitka Kalinski, who survived seven years of enslavement--while still a child--to a Nazi officer during and after World...

Before World War II, Abe and Sonia Huberman were two soulmates happily married and in love, living a peaceful life with their family in Warsaw, Pol...

DescriptionIn 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two son...

________________________________The first book in Diana Gabaldon's LORD JOHN GREY series, set in the same world as her OUTLANDER novelsIt's 1758 an...

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Analysis of a crucial battle in British naval historyRe-examines a neglected moment in naval warfareGripping account of this daring attack on the F...

Reducere. Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her memorable faith. From her unforgettable experience in ...

Reducere. Copenhagen, 1800. After seven years of cruel war against France, Britain's long-standing ally, Denmark, suddenly poses a threat. The scene of battl...

Reducere. For readers of The Hunger Games and Divergent who want to discover something new ... HER FIRST EIGHTEEN YEARS WERE FILLED WITH LIES. SHE IS ABOUT T...

Reducere. Living with the Torpedo is the only World War II memoir written by a US Navy officer who fought the years-long Battle of the Atlantic against Hitle...

Reducere. In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killin...

Reducere. In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the story of his life, calling i...

Reducere. The United States has been at war for 227 years of its 244-year history. It is currently at war in seven countries and its special forces operate i...

Reducere. For the first twenty-five years of his career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twe...

Reducere. Edith ROpke, her seven siblings, and their mother have learned to be silent and live inconspicuously.... It is 1939. On the cusp of World War II, t...

Reducere. In 1854, after serving in the U.S. Army for 11 years, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) resigned his commission and found himself out of a job and ...

Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most signific...

Reducere. Lying in bed next to 'the man of her dreams', Leah is crippled with fear and unable to sleep. She knows that her husband Jacob is going to wake up ...

Reducere. The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

Reducere. Ten years have passed since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last US combat troops left Iraq-...

Reducere. For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European strugg...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel HawleyIn May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158, 800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan...

Reducere. Harry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism i...

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By the outbreak of World War II, Germany had done much to replace the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet, which was scuttled following their surrender at the...

Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950 is a look at the quilts of the state from before Alabama was part of the Mississippi Ter...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amy GeorgeAuthor: Al JanssenWith: Allan JanssenLittle Amy never knew her father. One dark night, when she was only a baby, ...

DescriptionPraise for In Peace and War""A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the comp...

Reducere. The profiles and life stories of 160 patriotic women who were committed to the American Revolution and to the settling of the American frontier. Th...

Reducere. The Sixties shook America to its foundation - the assassination of an idealistic young president, a tragic and unpopular war, a battle for civil ri...

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DescriptionErcel Ellis Jr. was born into the Thoroughbred horse business and has worked in it for seventy-five years. He has been an owner, breeder...

Reducere. Two Sudanese "lost boys." Both fathers murdered during civil war. Both mothers forced into exile through lands where the only law was violence.To s...

Reducere. Canada, 1759. After the capture of Quebec in the Seven Years War, Corporal Hugh MacKim of the 78th Highlanders attempts to desert the British army....

Reducere. Montcalme and Wolfe frames the war years through the lives of its two brilliant opposing generals. Weaving together the campaigns on both sides of ...

Reducere. The acclaimed Vietnam Journal series from Don Lomax, nominated for a Harvey Award, is collected and presented as a series of graphic novels. Vietna...

With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy was at the forefront of her defence with her fleet of battleships as her main striking forc...

Featuring full-color artwork, this is the engaging story of Britain's elite light infantrymen in battle during the American Revolutionary War. Duri...

Reducere. The Honey Bird is an authentic Masai story, written for children in English and KiSwahili, a language widely spoken in East Africa. It tells the st...

Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have work...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale....

A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eightee...

Reducere. A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the foun...

Reducere. John Stieber was a twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second...

Reducere. Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presby...

Reducere. Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a swe...

Reducere. "The war is still raging. And Gene Nichol]'s still fighting." --John Grisham North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea chan...

Reducere. THE ART OF WAR (Chinese: 孫子兵法; pinyin: Sūnzĭ bīngfǎ) is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith and the Rhodesian Front party declared independence from Great Britain unilaterally. A ...

Reducere. Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. ...

Reducere. Vengeance Walking. In his debut book, Bryant builds a fictional story based on actual events that occurred in El Salvador. The smallest and most de...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jex LaneMatthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to ...

Newport Rhode Island: 1765The Seven Years War is over but unrest in the American colonies is just heating up.Maintaining her disguise as a young ma...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encampments of George Washington's Continental Army at Middlebrook and nearby Pluckemin, New Jersey, have been neglected in h...

Reducere. Despite being disdained by the German Army's professional officer corps, the military branch of the Nazi SS security organisation grew from an init...

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom S...

Reducere. In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain i...

DescriptionThe racial tensions that have long plagued American society exist to a much lesser extent in the military where the bond of common pursu...

Reducere. Drinking Dry Clouds is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing. This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowboys,...

Compelled by Love, the true story of the ministry of Heidi and Rolland Baker in the war-torn, poverty and disease-stricken country of Mozambique, c...

The celebrated history of Nantucket's great whaling days often overshadows the fascinating changes that took place in the years following. Discover...

Reducere. Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor--Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed a...

Reducere. At the age of fourteen, Paul Miller had to leave school to run the family farm during the grips of the Great Depression. For the eldest of seven ch...

Reducere. For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's clacháns, townlands, and cities. Nearly a million died. Was it the prospect of star...