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How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His AdmiralsMore than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II.Author: Edwin P. Hoyt, Rear Admiral E. M. EllerPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 528Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.09lbsSize: 9.05h...
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How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known as the Winter...
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Honor and Violence in the Old SouthHailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History,...
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History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner: The Raid of the Santee Sioux Against the Iowa Frontier Settlements, 1857The last Indian raid in Iowa The winter of 1856-7 was a particularly severe one in Iowa, with prolonged heavy snowfall across the region. In March 1857 a chronic shortage of game and other food persuaded the renegade Santee Sioux leader, Scarlet Point, to...
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History of the South Bend Fire Department Vol. III & IVThis compilation of Fire Department stories and events was gathered over many years. Some of the facts from yester-years traditions, techniques and technologies don't measure up to a modern fire department like ours. Fighting fire is a science in South Bend.This is the end...
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History Of Palestine - The Last Two Thousand YearsThe task of compressing the last two thousand years of Palestinian history has been achieved here through impressive research through the archaeological record and ancient manuscripts. Chapters included are, from the roman conquest to 70 C. E., Roman era, continued 70 to 305, the...
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Historic Images of the AdirondacksHistoric Images of the Adirondacks features a diverse selection of images from the Adirondack Museum's collection of over 65,000 photographs. Included are the images of great camps, hotels, Adirondack Guides, lumber camps, early settlers, and much more.Author: Victoria Werner SandifordPublisher: North Country BooksPublished: 12/05/2008Pages:...
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Historic Bridges of Southeast MinnesotaMinnesota is often called the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but it could also be called the Land of 20,000 Bridges. During the early days of the state, the Mississippi River and its many tributaries barred and disrupted transportation and commerce. To span these obstacles,...
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Hidden ChildrenThey hid wherever they could for as long as it took the Allies to win the war -- Jewish children, frightened, alone, often separated from their families. For months, even years, they faced the constant danger of discovery, fabricating new identities at a young...
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He Charged Alone: World War I Medal of Honor Recipient Private First Class Frank GaffneyFrank Gaffney was a 33-year-old papermaker from Western New York when America entered the Great War in 1917. While his age exempted him from serving in the military, Gaffney ran to the colors anyway. He fought bravely on Belgian and French battlefields as a...
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Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Today, his murder is seen as a national tragedy, a moment of collective shame. Yet at the time, King was a...
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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's QueenHawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an account of Hawaii's history during the 19th century, and the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani's kingdom.Author: LiliuokalaniPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 11/20/2016Pages: 670Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.94lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.34dISBN: 9781540520272This title is not returnable
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Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her PeopleAfter reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free." For 11...
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Hanne Darboven--Writing TimeAn investigation of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven's artistic practice and her highly personal mark-making as a form of marking time on paper Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) is best known for her immersive installations of individually framed sheets filled with written formulations and collaged images. Approaching...
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Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western FrontDuring the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British...
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Guiding Lights: Underground Railroad Conductors in York County, Pa.Several well-used Underground Railroad paths ran through York County, Pennsylvania, before the American Civil War. Freedom seekers crossed the Mason-Dixon Line after traveling through the rural Maryland countryside and set foot on free soil, often for the first time. But, York County often was...
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Growing Up in BeloitRobert Burdick's Growing Up in Beloit, serves as both an homage to coming of age in a gentler era, and as a poignant love letter to his beloved Midwestern hometown. In a lively narrative, Burdick brings to life the universal exuberance and industry of...
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Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of HistoryAdam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. It was their personal and intellectual rivalry, pursued on treks through Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Devon and parts of western Russia, that revealed the narrative structure of...
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Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of EthiopiaThis is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's very ancient incipience to the origins of today's tragically fratricidal war. Drawing from his huge corpus of publications on the...
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Great Cloud of Witnesses: How the Dead Make a Living ChurchProtestant Christians should venerate the saints. This shocking claim lies at the heart of Great Cloud of Witnesses. In it, Jackson Lashier presents the practice's biblical foundations and highlights the Christian belief in the resurrection of the dead: those who have died in Christ...
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