World War II: A New History, Paperback

PT Boat Odyssey: In the Pacific War with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 16, 1943-1945, Paperback - Robert P. Gelzheiser

543,99 RON

DescriptionDuring the Pacific War between the U.S. and Imperial Japanese navies, the author's father, Francis Gelzheiser, deployed with Motor Torpe...

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Uber Slip Case Set, Paperback - Kieron Gillen

489,99 RON 524,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe five volumes of collections making up the entire first series of Uber, Kieron Gillen's breakout hit reinvention of the alternative h...

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Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, Paperback - Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

471,99 RON

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

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A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present, Paperback - Michael J. Seth

459,99 RON

Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from Neo...

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Lemberg, Lww, l'Viv, 1914-1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City, Paperback - Christoph Mick

446,99 RON

Known as Lemberg in German and Lw w in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for m...

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Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, Paperback - Lawrence Kaplan

355,99 RON

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

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Heirlooms' Tale: A Family Story Told by Its Treasures, Paperback - Benedicte Grima

329,99 RON 353,99 RON

Reducere. Six heirlooms - a portrait, a table, a parure, a whiskey label, a set of books, and a building -- tell the stories of six branches of a family whos...

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Politics as Usual: Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944, Paperback - Michael Davis

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. The presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the first since 1864--and one of only a few in all ...

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Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians, Paperback - Lillian Faderman

303,99 RON 325,99 RON

Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, Paperback - Robert O. Self

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert O. SelfAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of t...

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Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II, Paperback - Cedric J. Robinson

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues...

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Qubec Confronts Canada, Paperback - Edward M. Corbett

275,99 RON

Originally published in 1967. The nationalistic sentiment of French Canada was starkly dramatized by the Montreal terrorist bombings in the spring ...

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American Ideas of Equality: A Social History, 1750-2020, Paperback - Carl L. Bankston

273,99 RON 293,99 RON

Reducere. Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political lif...

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Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism, Paperback - James L. Peck

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths not...

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Orientalism: A Reader, Paperback - Alexander Lyon Macfie

252,99 RON 270,99 RON

Reducere. In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalis...

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Scarlet to Green: A History of Intelligence in the Canadian Army 1903-1963, Paperback - Major S. R. Elliot

251,99 RON 269,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionScarlet to Green details the 'boom and bust' cycles of the Canadian Army's intelligence organization from its inception in 1903 to 1963,...

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Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians, Paperback - Jayne Persian

250,99 RON 268,99 RON

Reducere. 170, 000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration min...

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The Holocaust and North Africa, Paperback - Aomar Boum

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through...

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Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, Paperback - David Galula

248,99 RON 266,99 RON

Reducere. This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era defines the laws of insurgency and outlines th...

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The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, Paperback - Zachary M. Schrag

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering s...

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An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division, Paperback - Mark Johnston

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War I...

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In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians Since World War II, Paperback - Laurence M. Hauptman

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua o...

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The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II, Paperback - Gabrielle Hecht

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance, " which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France ...

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The Battle Within: POWs in Post-War Australia, Paperback - Christina Twomey

230,99 RON

Description"Headaches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just ...

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The Cambridge History of Communism, Paperback - Norman Naimark

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts ana...

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Reflections of Honor: The Untold Story of a Nisei Spy, Paperback - Lorraine Ward

220,99 RON

Arthur Komori, a Nisei from Hawai'i, was one of two Japanese Americans recruited to the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) to pose as Japanes...

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Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality, Paperback - Ashley Dreff

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis book maps how American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II. It argues that the current United Methodist i...

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Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line, Paperback - Gregory L. Schneider

217,99 RON

George H. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company--the Rock Island...

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Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement, Paperback - Neil M. Maher

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

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Okinawa, Japan: The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and Tourism, Paperback - Hudson Benjamin

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. Okinawa, Japan. The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and Tourism. Before Okinawa, there was Ryukyu, an independent king...

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Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture', Paperback - Vitruvius

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on archi...

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1960. When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern, Paperback - Al Filreis

213,99 RON

Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literar...

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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, Paperback - Vladislav Zubok

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after...

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Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture, Paperback - Branden Wayne Joseph

207,99 RON

DescriptionExperimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's...

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Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust, Paperback - Ira Katznelson

206,99 RON

During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunat...

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The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H., Paperback - George Steiner

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a ...

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Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic, Paperback - Minoru Masuda

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Writt...

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume II: The New World, Paperback - Sir Winston S. Churchill

205,99 RON

"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fin...

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Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Paperback - Selfa A. Chew

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionJoining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel vila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and ...

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New Orleans Jazz, Mahalia Jackson and the Philosophy of Art, PB (vol2), Paperback - Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker

201,99 RON 216,99 RON

Reducere. It was in a Nazi prison camp during World War II that 22-year-old Hans Rookmaaker read the Bible and became a Christian. It was there too he receiv...

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Tracking the 101st Cavalry, Paperback - Melaney Moisan

200,99 RON 215,99 RON

Reducere. The 101st Cavalry was a New York National Guard unit that spent the final months of World War II doing reconnaissance for the U.S. 7th Army. They c...

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Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932) & Mayflower Descendants. Bound with Supplement, Paperback - Elizabeth

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth M. RixfordThis genealogy is a study in the old world as well as the new. Extensive references have been given, co...

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Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South, Paperback - Jeannie Whayne

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

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Hawaii Nei: Island Plays, Paperback - Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. Hawaii Nei brings together three plays by one of Hawaii's finest playwrights. A compassionate portrait of early nineteenth- century Hawaii, The Con...

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World War II Pacific, Paperback - Daniel Wrinn

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. "A brisk and compelling game changer for the historiography of the Pacific Theater in World War II." - ReviewerAn enlightening glimpse into nine ba...

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It Wasn't So Jolly: The Story of the Jolly Rogers and the James Horner Crew 1942-1945, Paperback - Thomas A. Baker

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of the 90th Bomb Group of the US 5th Air Force, nicknamed the Jolly Rogers, and the James Horner bomber crew, as told ...

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The Golden Hour, Paperback - Beatriz Williams

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBeatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives, is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of Wo...

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Borrowed Soldiers: Americans Under British Command, 1918, Paperback - Mitchell a. Yockelson

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign...

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Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture, Paperback - Haidee Wasson

193,99 RON

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

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The Alaska Highway in World War II: The U.S. Army of Occupation in Canada's Northwest, Paperback - Kenneth S. Coates

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

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The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, Paperback (3rd Ed.) - Don Oberdorfer

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don OberdorferAuthor: Robert CarlinAn acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North ...

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Passionate Publishers: The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency, Paperback - Phoebe Kornfeld

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. Passionate Publishers traces the lives of the German Jewish refugee-émigré founders of the Black Star photo agency-Ernest Mayer, Kurt Safranski, an...

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, Paperback - Rebecca West

182,99 RON

"Rebecca West's magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time." --The New Yorker Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classi...

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The Things Our Fathers Saw - The War in the Air Book One: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA, Paperback - Matthew a.

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL IN THE BEST SELLING 'The Things Our Fat...

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The Bulge and Beyond: The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume VI, Paperback - Matthew Rozell

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you wil...

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Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her, Paperback - Maxwell Taylor Kennedy

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes a...

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The Story of World War II, Paperback - Henry Steele Commager

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most...

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Christ and the Caesars: Historical Sketches, Paperback - Ethelbert Stauffer

173,99 RON

DescriptionEthelbert Stauffer (1902 - 1979) was a German theologian who taught New Testament studies and ancient history at the University of Bonn ...

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And Time Rolls on, Paperback - Savitri

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionSavitri Devi (1905-1982) became known as the high priestess of "esoteric Hitlerism" for her unique synthesis of National Socialism, Hind...

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Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II, Paperback - Stephen Budiansky

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five...

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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, Paperback - Rosemary Sullivan

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed retired F...

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Wild Cards I, Paperback - George R. R. Martin

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. Back in print after a decade, expanded with new original material, this is the first volume of George R. R. Martin's Wild cards shared-world series...

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Washington's Golden Age: Hope Ridings Miller, the Society Beat, and the Rise of Women Journalists, Paperback - Joseph Dalton

170,99 RON

DescriptionReal news traveled fast, even in the days before internet connections. During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to...

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Israel and the Church: The Origins and Effects of Replacement Theology, Paperback - Ronald E. Diprose

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ronald E. DiproseModern Israel and its relations with its Arab neighbors has been conspicuously in the daily news ever sinc...

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Undoing the Liberal World Order. Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II, Paperback - Leon Fink

167,99 RON

Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the polit...

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The Second World War, Paperback - John Keegan

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second W...

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Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945, Paperback - Andrew Roberts

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. "Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." --The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contem...

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Uncommon Men: The Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps, Paperback - John C. Chapin

165,99 RON

New insights into the senior command levels of the United States fighting elite. Stories include accounts of men in battles from World War II. This...

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action, Paperback - H. P. Willmott

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval engagement in history. The battle was four separate actions, none of which were fought in the Gulf ...

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Indiana: An Interpretation--Indiana Bicentennial Edition, Paperback - John Bartlow Martin

163,00 RON

Indiana: An Interpretation is arguably the best single book about Indiana. Originally published in 1947, John Bartlow Martin's work sparked controv...

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