The Taste of War

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other...

Reducere. Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-sha...

DescriptionA Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When t...

How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing th...

Subtitled, World War Two & The Battle For Food. A major new history looking at the importance of food to who won the war, how they won it, and what...

Reducere. Vernor's Ginger Ale has sparkling fizz, a unique taste, and a history that goes back before Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hires, or Moxie. Upon returning from ...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar a Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who ch...

Reducere. Marisel Vera emerges as a major new voice in contemporary fiction with this "capacious" (The New Yorker) novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the...

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to ...

DescriptionMany people know that Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman and prime minister, a speechmaker who led his country th...

Contributor(s): Author: Katie HornsteinFrom the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevo...

Reducere. HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Desert Storm Journal comic series and brings back his central character from h...

Want to know more about American military history? U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's...

DescriptionEngland, 1346: for Thomas Blackstone the choice is easy--dance on the end of a rope for a murder he did not commit, or take up his war b...

Reducere. 'Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable' --Sebastian FaulksThis is the incredible true ...

Reducere. Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house nex...

DescriptionWestern master, B.N. Rundell, brings book thirteen in the best selling Rocky Mountain Saint series.The civil war is raging across the ea...

The return of Dick Grayson A bullet from KGBeast robbed Nightwing of his memories and shattered the identity of Dick Grayson. Now he has found hims...

DescriptionAn Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II's brightest heroines--the b...

Reducere. DescriptionInternational, award winning, Amazon top 20 Bestselling author She's a war I cannot win. She's our salvation. Erie is the one creature t...

Flying in the years between the two world wars was the preserve of the powerful and the wealthy, or so it was until Sir Alan Cobham's 'Flying Circu...

As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word 'tacky' has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called 't...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colette RossantCairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father's Egyptian-Jewish rela...

DescriptionA Christian ought to seek to understand the Almighty God as much as possible through the Scriptures. Tozer's The Knowledge of the Holy b...

Reducere. "The humans are weak. Their skin is soft, and their minds dull from years of safety. We are the vicious. We are the destroyers. Come the full moon,...

Reducere. As the conflict between Enosh and Damasca builds to war, Simon finds himself caught in the middle.Alin is bound by prophecy to the Grandmasters of ...

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 the future, the world is at war.For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. No one knows muc...

Reducere. Sebastian Lavalle is just 15 when he leaves home in 1934 to join the Navy. Seven years later, Sebastian unfortunately knows all too well about the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chanda HahnEvery journey has an end. Unable to find the answers she sought in Skyfell, Thalia, Joss, and Kael travel to Hav...

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. In 1765, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester stumbled upon Irishman John Hannon crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River. Hannon, though penniles...

Reducere. In 1890, D. E. Frederick arrived in Seattle and, joined soon after by Nels Nelson, started what would become one of the Northwest's best-loved and ...

Reducere. A soda war explodes into murder for Nero Wolfe, "one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction" (Publishers Weekly). For the men of Ma...

DescriptionThe second volume of Stalag IIB begins when Ren Tardi finally gets a taste of freedom, as prisoners and German officers alike are forced...

Anderson's debut novel introduces readers to a writer of lucid, hallucinatory prose worthy of comparison with Roberto Bolaño, Cormac McCarthy, and ...

Reducere. Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their ...

It's slippery. It's slurpable. It's spaghetti Perfect for fans of Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Timmy Failure, and the previous Stick Dog books, ...

DescriptionThis compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was six yea...

Reducere. A MASTER CLASS IN SPYCRAFT FROM ONE OF ITS GREATEST PRACTITIONERSJack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when A...

From the Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hipp...

Reducere. "Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille" (The New York Times Book Review) in this "delicious fairytale-like read" (NPR) about family, nationality, a...

Reducere. Almost every hour of every day, people will try to change your mind -- and they don't want you to notice, because none of it consists in giving you...

Reducere. Is Indy just another Midwestern city to fly over on the way to bigger and better destinations? Or is it, as locals know, a place where different pe...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom tea guru Sebastian Beckwith and New York Times bestsellers Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton comes the essential guide to explori...

Reducere. Tang Dynasty China, 849 A.D. -- Lady Bai's first taste of freedom brings her face to face with murder. A dangerous and enigmatic stranger becomes h...

Reducere. If you want cheese that's one-third the cost and better tasting than your best store-purchased Romano or Parmesan, then this book is for you. Caleb...

Reducere. This is the Military History of the Mohyals - an Indian clan of fighting Brahmins. They are Saraswat Brahmins who dwelt on the banks of the ancient...

Reducere. The complete three book bundle of The Fallen World trilogy.***This is not an additional novel to the series; this is an omnibus of it.***In the fut...

Reducere. Denise Levertov's Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob's Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The S...

Reducere. The Art of Chinese Cooking, first published in 1956 and with many subsequent reprintings (and revised and updated in this new edition), is an easy-...

Reducere. Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, gre...

Reducere. In combat, there is a fine line between being overly cautious and cowardice. It's Josh Haman's first tour in Vietnam and he's fresh out of the trai...

DescriptionThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinn...

Reducere. The de Moray witches are back, and this time there's hell to pay....Claire. How does a fire witch battle her feelings for a sexy apocalyptic horsem...

Taste your way through America with more than 125 recipes for our favorite historical cakes and frostings. Cakes in America aren't just about sugar...

Reducere. "Scenes from Village Life is like a symphony, its movements more impressive together than in isolation. There is, in each story, a particular chord...

Description"Piero Chiara's novel is at once a murder mystery and a lyrical study of desire, greed, and deception. The ending is simply stunning."--...

Reducere. DescriptionShe took the rose and lifted it. It had a strange hot smell in the cold of the cave. It brushed her mouth and broke. She felt the burnin...

Reducere. A musician is transported into a land of magic--from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Da...

Reducere. Death Do Us Part is a fantasy comedy romance about a tyrant king who is being forced to marry a naive criminal. Honey, Does This Taste Like Poison ...

The story of the Messerschmitt Me 109's ultimate development, the Blohm & Voss BV 155, begins in 1942 with plans to split the Me 109 family into th...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author John Connolly "takes readers on a path they truly won't believe" (Suspense Magazine) in this riveting supernatura...

Reducere. He's Italian, older, a gorgeous tattooed Harley lover... and the one man I can never have.From the moment Saint Lisconti moved in next door and rec...

Reducere. Betrayed by the love of her life at sixteen, causing her to flee her home, Amber Daniels' taste in men hasn't improved over time. With a bitter div...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of George PattonGeneral George S. Patton remains a household name to this day even though he died decades ago. Not onl...