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Civil War Journal, Vol. 2: The Battles

By: N/A

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Rutledge Hill Pr: January 1998

Seller ID: 353089

ISBN: 1558534385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Of more than one thousand battles fought during the war," William C. Davis notes, "a few have risen to lasting fascination and prominence, some even regarded as 'turning points.' The battles included in this book are those that caused the greatest casualties, produced the greatest feats of heroism, and won or lost major campaigns. They decided the course of the war in the East and the West, set the standard for valor and sacrifice, defined who the American soldier was to be in this war and in the future, and established the American military tradition."

This volume presents accounts of ...
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The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: November 2002

Seller ID: 318492

ISBN: 0195156269

Condition: Used - Very Good

In The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites renowned Lincoln scholars, and rising new voices, to take a look at much-debated aspects of Lincoln's life--including his possible gay relationships, his plan to send blacks back to Africa, and his high-handed treatment of the Constitution. Boritt explores Lincoln's proposals that looked to a lily-white America. Jean Baker marvels at Lincoln's loves and marriage. David Herbert Donald compares Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as Commanders-in-Chief. Douglas Wilson shows us the young Lincoln--not the strong leader of popular history, but a man who ...
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American History (Minipedias)

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Parragon Inc: March 2005

Seller ID: 336115

ISBN: 1405447613

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic

By: N/A

Price: $15.50

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College: September 1995

Seller ID: 344021

ISBN: 0070157383

Condition: Used - Very Good

Anglo-Norman Warfare: Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Military Organization and Warfare

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: BOYE6: November 2000

Seller ID: 355052

ISBN: 0851153283

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The influence of war on late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman society was dominant and all-pervasive. Here in this book, gathered together for the first time, are fundamental articles on warfare in England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries, combining the work of some of the foremost scholars in the field. Redressing the tendency to study military institutions and obligations in isolation from the practice of war, equal emphasis is given both to organisation and composition of forces, and to strategy, tactics and conduct of war. The result is not only an in-depth analysis of the nature of...
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

By: N/A

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Bison Books: September 1995

Seller ID: 70258

ISBN: 0803272774

Condition: Used - Very Good

The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.
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The Foxfire Book Set (Volumes 1-3)

By: N/A

Price: $29.00

Publisher: anchor:

Seller ID: 323520

ISBN: 281BPE1004923

Condition: Used - Very Good

Tutankhamun - Reviving Egypt's Past for the Future

By: Abt, Dr. Theodor Dr.

Price: $22.77

Publisher: Daimon Verlag: December 2016

Seller ID: 312158

ISBN: 3952388092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This book is intended as a guide for visitors to the facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Part I begins with an overview of what we owe to the Pharaonic culture in general. Part II goes on to the story of the rebuilding of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Then in Part III there follows an overview of the iconographic programme in the burial chamber. This section concludes with an introduction to the religious representations and texts, given on the four gilded shrines placed around the sarcophagus. These images and texts combine to provide unique guidelines to Pharaoh Tutankhamun in his tomb prior to...
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Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee (True Crime History)

By: Ackermann, Ann Marie

Price: $8.50

Publisher: The Kent State University Press: September 2017

Seller ID: 334557

ISBN: 1606353047

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee's position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee's battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime....
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World War II (What Really Happened)

By: Alan Axelrod

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Fall River: 2008

Seller ID: 304290

ISBN: 1435163621

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

By: Amity Shlaes

Price: $5.50

Publisher: HarperCollins: June 2008

Seller ID: 2551

ISBN: 0060936428

Condition: Used - Very Good

In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

By: Anne Frank

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Bantam: July 1993

Seller ID: 349643

ISBN: 0553296981

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.

In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, bo...
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

By: Anne Frank

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Bantam: July 1993

Seller ID: 33225

ISBN: 0553296981

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Diary of Anne Frank

By: Anne Frank

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Pan Books: January 1968

Seller ID: 15002

ISBN: 0330107372

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

By: Anne Frank

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Bantam: November 1994

Seller ID: 33561

ISBN: 055356983X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
"Tales from the Secret Annex" is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father. By turns fantastical...
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Voices of a People's History of the United States

By: Arnove, Anthony, Zinn, Howard

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: October 2004

Seller ID: 327750

ISBN: 1583226281

Condition: Used - Very Good

Letter, poems, speeches, and essays are collected in this book that tells the story of the United States from the perspective of people left out of history books, such as women, workers, Native Americans, and Latinos. Original. 60,000 first printing.
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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II (Three Days Series)

By: Baier, Bret,Whitney, Catherine

Price: $14.50

Publisher: William Morrow: October 2019

Seller ID: 350401

ISBN: 0062905686

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II--the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin plotted the war's endgame, including the D-Day invasion.

November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Gua...
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Braddock's Road: Mapping the British Expedition from Alexandria to the Monongahela (Military)

By: Baker, Norman L.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: The History Press: August 2013

Seller ID: 337144

ISBN: 162619114X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two army regiments set out from Alexandria with the objective of capturing Fort Duquesne, near present-day Pittsburgh. To transport their sizable train of artillery and wagons, they first had to build a road across the rugged Appalachian Mountains. It was almost 289 treacherous miles from Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Fort Cumberland in Maryland and on to the French fort; the road they built was one of the most impressive military engineering accomplishments of the eighteenth century. Historian Norman L. Baker chronicles the construction of the road...
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

By: Barry

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 2005

Seller ID: 5752

ISBN: 0143036491

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. "Monumental"-Chicago Tribune.

At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to...
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Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America

By: Beck

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Threshold Editions: November 2013

Seller ID: 123483

ISBN: 1476764743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

#1 bestselling author Glenn Beck gives us inspiring, courageous, and little-known stories from American history, from the Founders through September 11.

Don't miss the huge bestseller Miracles and Massacres, history as you've never heard it told and incredible events that you never knew existed.

HISTORY AS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE TOLD: TRUE AND THRILLING.

Thomas Edison was a bad guy--and bad guys usually lose in the end.

World War II radio host "Tokyo Rose" was branded as a traitor by the US government and served time in prison. In reality, she was a hero to many.

Twenty...
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