Treasuring the Tradition: The Story of the Military Museums, Paperback - Jeff Keshen

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museu...

Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans's French Quarter....

Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors.' Antigonus loyally served both Phili...

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is home to both time and space: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the Prime Meridian. But have you ever stopped to a...

Reducere. A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most ...

DescriptionHistories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line....

Reducere. "The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. We need more information from those directly involved, and this book provides a ...

Reducere. In this five-volume opus-now available in its entirety in paperback-Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to ...

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.

A highly rated, vivid and readable account of U.S. tanks in action in 1944 based on six years of research, interviews and battlefield visits."[An] ...

The Imperial War Museum open its world-famous archives to celebrate the letters, diaries and spoken words of those who witnessed the key events of ...

Reducere. Richard J. Flaherty's been called spook, assassin, dope smuggler, dwarf... but who was he really?At 4' 9" and 97 pounds, Richard J. Flaherty was th...

DescriptionThe American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation ICEBERG was fought from 1 April to 22 June 1945. 350 miles from Japan, Okin...

A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist)--the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns int...

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Reducere. "A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road somewhere, " President Lyndon Johnson told a senator in March 1965. "But there ain't no dayli...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Deep Dark Blue is more than a memoir about sexual assault. It's about breaking boundaries but also setting them. It's about learning to trust your ...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, ...

The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived ...

Reducere. Bestselling author Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two kids from a filt...

This book tells the true story of Himmler's plan to use prominent WWII concentration camp prisoners as hostages in an attempt to engage the Western...

The world is full of good things. Ice-cold lemonade. The laughter of children. College football. Scrambled eggs and crispy bacon. But what happens ...

Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded...

The life, death and rock'n'roll rollercoaster career of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott.Publisher: Allen & UnwinAuthor(s): Jeff ApterIllustration(s): 16-p...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting. Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and to...

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap. This book is the first ...

"Baseball's Lost Tradition is a very interesting concept. I was unaware of the differences between the AL and NL expansion drafts of '61 and ' 62; ...

This pamphlet describes how a truthful account of our past lays the groundwork for future recovery progress. An excellent tool for those in denial ...

Reducere. Set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, Saving Cinnamon chronicles the love story of Navy Reservist Mark Feffer and a stray puppy he bo...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Joe PappalardoNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 207 x 29Cover type: Paperback / so...

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Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...

DescriptionBaptists tend to be the "problem children" of the ecumenical movement. The Baptist obsession to realize a true church birthed a traditio...

This book draws from the author's nearly three-decade career of being "the only one in the room". Cecile Shellman builds a process for individualiz...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

DescriptionA moving graphic biography for music lovers, Grace: The Jeff Buckley Story is painstakingly researched and created in collaboration with...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeff ApterTeenage punk, self-taught musician, bandleader, session man, smoker, drinker, multi-millionaire, David Grohl has ...

Reducere. Discover the David vs. Goliath rise of Catholic college basketball, from Villanova to Georgetown to Gonzaga, where small schools perennially shoot ...