Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, Paperback

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Dramatic narrative combining big personalities (Cicero, Cato, Marius, Sulla and Pompey), political intrigue, assassination and full-scale warfare.P...

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Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, ...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling cou...

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Reducere. The small things that had great historical consequences..."Heart-stopping, compelling, and fun!" Win Blevins, New York Times Bestselling AuthorHow ...

DescriptionDuring the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. After major s...

Reducere. In 1779 a Philadelphia belle, Margaret Shippen, married a hero of the ongoing Revolution, General Benedict Arnold. Within months Peggy was sending ...

Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it. -Lynn VincentThe New York Times bestsell...

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Reducere. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200, 000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6, 800 of those men died in battle. About 25, 000 ...

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Reducere. From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the ...

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.Thomas...

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Reducere. When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings h...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the war written by generals *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *...

The mainstream version of the American Civil War has always been nonsensical and irrational. Why? Because it was written by Liberals with an extrem...

The Second Continental Congress was an assembly of America's brightest minds. It was formed because of the collective desire to be independent of B...

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