The Seven Years' War, Paperback

For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for r...

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...

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...

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DescriptionIn a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the produ...

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

Reducere. As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section leader in an Aerial Scout platoon in Vietnam. ...

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...

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. "The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written." - The Guardian With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose t...

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

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

Reducere. "The Mahabharata" is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come...

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

What do ""Abu Sindi, "" ""Timothy Sean McCormack, "" ""Saro, "" and ""Commander Avo"" all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian...

Reducere. Bestselling and beloved author Janet Dailey captures the heart of the last American frontier in this rousing, passionate tale of splendid adventure...

Reducere. The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come d...

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Reducere. Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongol...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Glenn RobinsForeword by: Bud DayWhile serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class...

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

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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. Dumas Malone's classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jeffer...

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...

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"Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the f...

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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. William Sloane Coffin offers here a powerful antidote to the politics of the religious right with a clarion call to passive intellectuals and dispi...

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Reducere. Captain Robert N. Buck retired from TWA after having flown well over two thousand Atlantic crossings and thirty-seven years of service as chief pil...

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...

In the beginning, the Ancient Magic bore seven brothers, giving each the power to create through a hidden Spring. But when one brother betrayed the...

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. DescriptionCassilde Sam is a barely solvent salvage operator, hunting for relics in the ruins left by the mysterious Ancestors--particularly the co...

The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories--between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and ...

Reducere. Frank Herbert will forever be known as the "author of Dune, " the science fiction masterpiece that made his career and made his name. But he was an...

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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...

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Reducere. Groucho Marx was a comic genius who starred on stage and in film, radio, and television. But he was also a gifted writer - the author of a play, tw...

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

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...

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

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 ...

Reducere. Ian Williams describes in captivating detail how Rum and the molasses that it was made from was to the 18th century what oil is today. Rum was used...

Reducere. Wars, fought on a grand scale with global consequences, are made up of countless smaller battles and events. For the men who fought, bled and died ...

Reducere. France, 1942. While war blazes at the front lines of Europe, in the walled southern city of Carcassonne, nestled deep in the Pyrenees, a group of c...

Reducere. Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle wit...

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...

Reducere. Arcana, the secrets and mysteries of a land remade by Angels of Light and Darkness, remains in the tales, tomes, and relics scattered through Erila...

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...

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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by ...

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