World War II: A New History, Paperback

German Secret Weapons of World War II: The Missiles, Rockets, Weapons, and New Technology of the Third Reich, Paperback - Ian V. Hogg

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. Hitler's regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments. But typically, the te...

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The Second Sino-Japanese War: The History and Legacy of the Deadly Conflict That Lasted Through the End of World War II, Paperback - Charles River Edi

56,99 RON

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Though both nations...

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What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, Paperback - Brian Seibert

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in AmericaWhat the Eye Hear...

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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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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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California Dreamin' Along Route 66, Paperback - Joe Sonderman

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe California Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. Flappers dreamed of stardom under the bright lights of Hollywood. ...

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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Jack Mayer

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack MayerDuring World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social ...

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The Firebombing of Tokyo: The History of the U.S. Air Force's Most Controversial Bombing Campaign of World War II, Paperback - Charles River Editors

45,99 RON 49,99 RON

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the firebombing by both Americans and Japanese civilians in Tokyo *Includes online resources and a bibliog...

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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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The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis, Paperback - Elizabeth Letts

85,99 RON

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the clo...

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Into the Blast - The True Story of D.B. Cooper - Revised Edition, Paperback - Skipp Porteous

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. November 24, 1971 - A man using the assumed name of 'Dan Cooper' leaped from the aft stairwell of a Boeing 727 jetliner after demanding four parach...

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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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Rabaul 1943-44: Reducing Japan's Great Island Fortress, Paperback - Mark Lardas

85,99 RON

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Ra...

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Wolverine: The Daughter of Wolverine, Paperback - Charles Soule

85,99 RON

DescriptionTo celebrate Marvel's 80th anniversary, Wolverine stars in a story that stretches across the decades But what crazy vigil could require ...

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I'll Be Seeing You: Letters Home from a Navy Girl, Paperback - Karen Berkey Huntsberger

99,99 RON

When Lucy Berkey graduated from Indiana University in 1942, most of her male classmates either enlisted or were drafted to serve in World War II. O...

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Our Daily Bread: A Meditation on the Cultural and Symbolic Significance of Bread Throughout History, Paperback - Predrag Matvejevic

69,99 RON

Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, thr...

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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, Paperback - Anyi Wang

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, l...

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Whistle, Paperback - James Jones

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. Four World War II infantrymen recover at an army hospital, and struggle to readjust to the home front, in this New York Times-bestselling novel. At...

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Nassau County Police Department, Paperback - Jerry Aylward

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Nassau County Police Department was created in 1925 out of an urgent need for a professional law enforcement agency to provide swift...

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To Glory We Steer: The Richard Bolitho Novels, Paperback - Alexander Kent

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. Portsmouth, 1782. His Britannic Majesty's frigate, Phalarope, is ordered to assist the hard-pressed squadrons in the Caribbean. Aboard is her new c...

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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, Paperback - Anne Applebaum

85,99 RON

National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012Best Nonf...

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Bat Bomb: World War II's Other Secret Weapon, Paperback - Jack Couffer

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. It was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific-- All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats an...

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Snow Island (Tenth Anniversary Edition), Paperback - Katherine Towler

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. On Snow Island, a remote community off the New England coast, sixteen-year-old Alice Daggett struggles to come to terms with her father's death whi...

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D-Days in the Pacific, Paperback - Donald L. Miller

124,99 RON

Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive op...

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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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Yes! We Are Latinos: Poems and Prose about the Latino Experience, Paperback - Alma Flor Ada

56,99 RON

Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Per...

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Paul the Traveller: Saint Paul and His World, Paperback - Ernle Bradford

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. Few historians immersed themselves in their topics like bestselling noted author Ernle Bradford. Specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval ...

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Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City, Paperback - Robert W. Snyder

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, Paperback - Brigid Pasulka

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. On the eve of World War II, in a place called Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks...

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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Paperback - Eleanor Roosevelt

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and...

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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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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II, Paperback - Thomas Childers

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called Good War. The Greatest Generation, we're told by To...

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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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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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The Animals at Lockwood Manor, Paperback - Jane Healey

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirite...

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The Light Over London, Paperback - Julia Kelly

83,99 RON 89,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionReminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, this entrancing story "is a poignant reminder that ...

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Witness to the Storm: A Jewish Journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920-1945, Paperback - Werner T. Angress

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 6, 1944, Werner T. Angress parachuted down from a C-47 into German-occupied France with the 82nd Airborne Division. Nine days la...

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From Ignorance to Insanity: (Observations of an Old Man), Paperback - Robert D. Ohmes

150,99 RON

We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Kor...

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Mustang, Paperback - John J. Dwyer

77,99 RON

Climb into the cockpit with Dust Bowl farm boy Lance Roark as he arrives in England commanding a B-17 Flying Fortress at the height of World War II...

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The Room on Rue Am lie, Paperback - Kristin Harmel

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpe...

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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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The Water Dancers, Paperback - Terry Gamble

78,99 RON 84,99 RON

Reducere. A stunning debut novel from a new voice in literary fiction, set on Lake Michigan following World War II, The Water Dancers limns the divide betwee...

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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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I and Thou, Paperback - Martin Buber

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of i...

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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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No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations, Paperback - Mark Mazower

116,99 RON

No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organi...

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German Self-Propelled Artillery Guns of the Second World War, Paperback - Craig Moore

119,99 RON

DescriptionOne towed artillery gun required a team of six horses and nine men. WW2 German engineers came up with the idea of mounting an artillery ...

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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History, Paperback - Howard Zinn

88,99 RON

If you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search ...

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Family Record, Paperback - Patrick Modiano

111,99 RON

DescriptionAn enthralling reflection on the ways that family history influences identity, from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature A mix of auto...

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Night Over Water, Paperback - Ken Follett

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes to the skies in this classic novel of international suspense. Set in the early days of World...

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The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans, Paperback - Mark Jacobson

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin o...

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play, Paperback - Cliff Kuang

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion o...

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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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Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, the First Complete Edition, Paperback - Hannah Senesh

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. Hero - Martyr - PoetThe inspiring story of a remarkable life cut short. "I don't think Hannah wanted to die for the sake of having her memory exalt...

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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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Postmoderns, Paperback - Donald Allen

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained pre-eminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects not only the...

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The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia, Paperback - Stephan Talty

113,99 RON

Inspiration for the hit new podcast "Hunting the Butcher" The untold story of an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvi...

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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 Clay Pigeons of St. Lo, Paperback - Joseph Balkoski

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. This classic of military history tells the exciting story of the fall of St. L , the first major objective of the invading American armies in Norma...

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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History, Paperback - Thomas Rid

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. As lives offline and online merge ever more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cyberneti...

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Zero, Paperback - Masatake Okumiya

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is t...

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When Running Made History, Paperback - Roger Robinson

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian's in-sight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World Wa...

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All the Love in the World, Paperback - Cathy Song

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD is a debut prose collection by award-winning poet Cathy Song. The...

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Professional Basketball in 1939-40: On the Cusp of Depression and War, Paperback - John Hogrogian

69,98 RON

Professional Basketball in 1939-40: On the Cusp of Depression and WarBy: John HogrogianProfessional basketball began its modern history in 1946, wh...

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Fly Girls (Young Readers' Edition): How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History, Paperback - Keith O'Brien

55,99 RON 59,99 RON

Reducere. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Keith O'Brien comes this thrilling young readers' edition of the untold story about pioneering women who...

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Sweet and Low, Paperback - Rich Cohen

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in...

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Code Name Hélène, Paperback - Ariel Lawhon

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. This fully animated portrait of Nancy Wake . . . will fascinate readers of World War II history and thrill fans of fierce, brash, independent women...

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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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Song of Latvia: A Novel of the Latvian Resistance, Paperback - V. Z. Byram

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. With her husband's name on a hit list, the fight got personal.It is 1940 when World War II invades the lives of history teacher Mija Adamsons and h...

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Fault Lines, Paperback - Nancy Huston

69,99 RON

A best seller in France, with over 400, 000 copies sold, and currently being translated into eighteen languages, Fault Lines is the new novel from ...

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