Women and Wars

Reducere. In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland o...

Reducere. The early Dutch settlers in Albany called the hills to the west "Hellebergh, " or "Clear Mountain." Little did they know of the rugged terrain that...

Reducere. The life of a princess isn't all glamor, handsome princes, and beautiful clothes. It's also devotion to duty, sacrifice for your people, and a lot ...

Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have work...

DescriptionInnovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women. After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to h...

The most powerful and feared vampire disappeared at the height of his powers and passed into legend. Most vampires think he's dead. He is not dead....

DescriptionAn inclusive and expansive telling of the history of civilization from the beginning of time, by one of France's most beloved children's...

DescriptionOver the ages and in all societies, gallantry in battle has been highly regarded, with the bravery of individuals and fighting forces be...

Reducere. British writer Marjorie Bowen (the pseudonym of Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, 1885-1952) was a prolific author of short stories, novels, essays, an...

DescriptionNew stories set in Tom Kratman's hard-hitting Carrera military sf series "Send us your tired, your poor, " says the inscription at the b...

Reducere. Thomas Blantz's monumental The University of Notre Dame: A History tells the story of the renowned Catholic university's growth and development fro...

Reducere. Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Marianne Odom began the interviews for this book in 1981 and devoted a professional lifetime to collecting the memories o...

Reducere. Farid Younes makes his home in Byblos, a coastal town in northern Lebanon. He lived through both the Lebanese and now the Syrian civil wars. Like a...

Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle ...

Reducere. "A searing, facts-driven indictment of America's drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned c...

In the late 1990s bands like Fugazi, Branch Manager, the Make-Up, Deep Lust, Quix*o*tic, Lungfish, Spirit Caravan, Scaramouche, Stinking Lizaveta, ...

Reducere. DescriptionRead the complete adventures of Trinity and Leo in Ascension Saga, Volume 1 (Books 1-3). A princess. A soldier. A destiny neither could ...

Reducere. Set against the mosques and minarets of Asia Minor and the ruins of ancient Athens, The Embroiderer is a gripping saga of love and loss, hope and d...

Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. Marke...

Tornado Boys is the latest in the ever-popular ‘Boys’ series, and differs from earlier titles. With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF in...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the massacre by civilians and Japanese soldiers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further ...

DescriptionA richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their liv...

Reducere. DescriptionFrontier Cabin Story is a rare architectural biography of a long-forgotten 18th-century log farmhouse in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. J...

Reducere. 12th Century England. Two men vie for the throne: King Stephen the usurper, and young Duke Henry the rightful heir. Amid civil and private wars, al...

Reducere. DescriptionNo 1 NEW RELEASE NOV 2014. This is not a book about Singer sewing machines but Isaac Merritt Singer, the inventor of the first practical...

Reducere. Words From The Heart...When America's Veterans Speak Individuals who did not have the opportunity to hear about the military experience of family m...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as t...

Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the ...

Shirley is Charlotte Bront: e e's only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period o...

Reducere. DescriptionRazia is excited when her grandfather tells her there's a school for girls being built in their Afghan village. At last, girls will have...

Members of Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a bab...

Reducere. Book 10 of the Tarzan Series - Special Edition Authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Featuring Rare and Previously Unpublished Archival Materia...

Reducere. Available in paperback, this four-volume narrative world history tells the story of the entire globe, from the earliest nomadic humans all the way ...

Reducere. On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killi...

Reducere. "In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exqu...

Reducere. Fan of the Vikings History Channel show? The Last Kingdom? 13th Warrior? Have questions, like: Who were the Vikings? - Illiterate, mindless barbari...

Reducere. By Clint Lacy. Deep in the eastern Ozarks of Missouri, a battle still rages about a massacre that happened on Christmas Day of 1863. While some cal...

Reducere. She's the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she's portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all wome...