Transformation of War, Hardcover

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The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented pe...

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DescriptionAn incisive, comparative study of the development of Post-World War II progressive politics in Britain, France, and the United States To...

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.For most of its histo...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

Reducere. Celebrate the bicentennial of Maine statehood. Historian Tom Huntington covers the course of Maine's often turbulent history, decade by decade. He ...

American art underwent a transformation during the period 1940-55, and nowhere is that change better exemplified than in the work of Ralston Crawfo...

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One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark ...

Heartbreaking and poetic. --The GuardianOne of the Wall Street Journal's 11 best books of the fallNamed a most anticipated book by Literary Hub Ele...

ENTER THE WORLD OF PENTHARA ... a world governed by five elements and their five seasons ... The human kingdom of Barredom has been at war with the...

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An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of America's twenty-first-century wars This original and accessible book is a comprehensive, ...

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Reducere. The United States' involvement in the two world wars of the twentieth century drastically changed the country's role in the world. It also changed ...

Reducere. Shaped around the writings of Caryll Houselander, A Child in Winter is a daybook for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. If you are familiar with Hous...

DescriptionThe modern classic about the colonization of Libya continues, as Italy watches its prized colony slip away. The Confines of the Shadow m...

Gravel and Grit recounts not only a rural boyhood in a period of racial hostility and class exclusion but also of simple country pleasures and stro...

Experience C. S. Lewis's Captivating Transformation from Atheist to Christian At the end of World War I, young C. S. Lewis was a devout atheist abo...

It all started in London. More than fifty years ago, a generation of teens created something that would change the face of music forever. London, R...

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DescriptionHomer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redem...

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For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial t...

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From the pages of Look, the magazine that defined the fifties, comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in A...

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Reducere. With Hicksville, local historians Richard and Anne Evers take us on a journey back in time from the area's 1648 land purchase from Native Americans...