The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot, Paperback - William Rosen

The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history--years before the Black D...

A history of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, as well as an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas a...

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In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human fac...

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The story of The Great Hunger told as a graphic novel from the perspectives of Irish men, women and children from June 1847 onward. This graphic no...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael RosenNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 14Cover type: Paperback / soft...

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Michael Rosen embarks on a journey into the truth behind the fate of his relatives who disappeared during the Second World War, interspersing this ...

Beginning in 1939, young Solly in London exchanges letters with his teenaged cousin, Bernie, in Poland. While Solly is evacuated and adjusts to lif...

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'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship...

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DescriptionAmerica's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 t...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the famine by Irishmen who suffered through it *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further r...

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How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Steph...

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The Great Irish Famine tells of the last great famine in European history. First-hand accounts and writings by four contemporary real people are us...

Praised as an "unforgettable love story" by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life,...

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DescriptionThe War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Con...

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A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II . . .A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A ...

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A collection of powerful and dramatic images of weather phenomena from around the world. Each image is taken from the acclaimed annual competition ...

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Reducere. "I was ready to go away, to fall asleep, and to never wake up again. Paul Rosen was ready to do what he had told everyone else NOT to do for so lon...

The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired internatio...

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