The Story of Winchester in Virginia: The Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley, Paperback - Frederic Morton

Reducere. Winchester was the capital of the Northern Neck of VA for almost 40 years, headquarters for George Washington during his military apprenticeship, t...

Reducere. Motorcyclists who think they have the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia all figured out have another thing coming. In his third guide, Hawk H...

Reducere. The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend. Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the comm...

Reducere. The Shenandoah Valley is famous for its role in Civil War history and for its great natural beauty. But there is something else: it is a tremendous...

The first full-length account in more than three decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864-the battle that opened the pivotal 186...

Reducere. The Oldest Story in the World is a brooding, daring, idiosyncratic exploration of the secret strength of storytelling, in which Phil Cousineau addr...

Reducere. Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than f...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation ...

Reducere. The church bell tower transports Chip, Caroline and Billy back thousands of years to an ancient battlefield. There they meet a young shepherd desti...

Reducere. Author Robert Dietsche is a Toledo born jazz historian and jazz critic who has resided in the Portland, Oregon area most of his life. Tatum's Town ...

But the ever restless explorer was driven to pursue ever greater challenges, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest-his own hero's ...

A "wildly entertaining" and "masterly" memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the ...

Reducere. This is the story of the development of remote-controlled railroad distributed motive power. Distributing locomotive power throughout the length of...

Reducere. Jubal A. Early's disastrous battles in the Shenandoah Valley ultimately resulted in his ignominious dismissal. But Early's lesser-known summer camp...

Reducere. "A brilliant account" of the controversial 2005 legal battle between evolution and creationism in public education "by a first-rate journalist" (Ho...

Reducere. The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World The oldest book in the world is the filled with wisdom quotes and teachings on how one is ...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost a...

"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history, " was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English D...

Reducere. An Unabridged, Unedited Printing of the 1909 Dutton Edition Translated by B. G. Gunn, to include: An Editorial Note - Introduction (by the translat...

'Fascinating' - Margaret AtwoodCan taking the law into your own hands be the right thing to do...

A brutal murder in a small fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully ...

In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bott ro presents the first extensive look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotami...

A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...

The Shenandoah Valley is widely renowned for its beauty and its idyllic landscape of farms, fields, historic towns, and Civil War battlefields. Fra...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

Reducere. DescriptionEstes Park, Colorado has a fascinating history. The Estes family, first pioneer settlers; Lord Dunraven and Isabella Bird; Griff Evans a...

Reducere. On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at hi...

Reducere. The three rivers that make up the Coal River Valley--Big, Little and Coal--were named by explorer John Peter Salling (or Salley) for the coal depos...

Reducere. In this timeless, inspirational tale, readers - human and duck - learn that they can what they put their minds to The author, Morty Sosland, M.D., ...

Reducere. In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: H. V. MortonIllustrator: Richard John NeuhausHere, in the spirit of Bruce Feiler's beloved bestseller Walking the Bible, is...