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Our Fathers at Gettysburg: A Step by Step Description of the Greatest Battle of the American Civil WarOver 100 large Battlefield Maps.Loaded with Photos, Illustrations and Discussion.Integrated with online Google Maps & VideosIntegrated with YouTube Battlefield Animations.Updated 6/2020.Little Round Top, The Wheatfield, The Peach Orchard, Devil's Den, the Railroad Cut, Pickett's Charge - these were the turning points within the most...
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900 Miles from Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead FrontierIt was on the vast American prairie that people from around the world seized the opportunity for personal and economic freedom promised by free land. Traveling across oceans and continents, these hard-nosed, pragmatic people began arriving in the 1860s with shovels and plows, convinced...
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The Galvanized YankeesHere is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On...
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The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande Across the Far MariasThe Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz's contemporary times. It is the second in Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating...
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Tobruk 1942: Rommel and the Battles Leading to His Greatest VictoryControversial reevaluation of one of the Allies' worst defeats at the hands of the Desert Fox, Rommel Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories - and one of the worst Allied defeats - of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the...
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The Battle of Berlin 1945An account of the twilight of the Third Reich The Battle of Berlin was a conflict of unprecedented scale. The Soviets massed 1,600,000 troops for Operation Berlin, and but Marshal Zhukov's his initial attack floundered and was so costly that he had to revise...
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Frontier Terror: Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old WestFollowing the events of January 6, 2021, talk of vigilantes and mob violence have become a part of our daily discourse, reminding us that we haven't come as far as we thought from the "wild" days of the Old West. The nineteenth century was...
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Emma Lazarus: Sephardic Woman of LettersAs the first Jewish woman and Sephardic poet of importance in the United States, Emma Lazarus, struggled with recognition and acceptance among her peers during her lifetime, but more than a century later, her reputation overshadows them. In her lifetime her poem, "The New...
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Minnesota Goes to War: The Home Front During World War IIKenney chronicles a time when ordinary sacrifice and extraordinary courage happened as a part of daily life.Brainerd, 1941: The first people began arriving at the depot at about eleven-thirty p.m. The mercury in the thermometer read twenty below zero, and it was still dropping....
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The Gate: The True Story of the Design and Construction of the Golden Gate BridgeAuthor: John Van Der ZeePublisher: iUniversePublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 392Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.94lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.81dISBN: 9780595094295This title is not returnable
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The Bonus Army: An American EpicThe account by Dickson and Allen recalls the subliminal force of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with gaunt stories of character at the limits of dignity. ― Taylor Branch, New York Review of Books In the summer of 1932, 15,000 World War I...
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The Short Life of Hughie McLoon: A True Story of Baseball, Magic and MurderThis could be a great work of fiction. The damndest thing is it's all fact." - Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated It was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players believed...
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The Rumrunners: A Prohibition ScrapbookA 10,000 copy seller in Canada, The Rumrunners offers a photographic history of the regular men and women who smuggled Canadian liquor to the United States during the roaring '20s. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Prohibition.Author: Marty GervaisPublisher: BiblioasisPublished: 10/01/2009Pages:...
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Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real WorldPirates and Emperors is a brilliant exploration of the role of the United States in the Middle East that exposes how the media manipulates public opinion about what constitutes terrorism. Chomsky masterfully argues that appreciating the differences between state terror and nongovernmental terror is...
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Divided on D-Day: How Leadership Failures Threatened the Normandy InvasionTwo historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affected the D-Day invasion and its aftermath. This book offers a fresh perspective on the Normandy invasion -- -the beginning of the end of World War...
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Revolution in Virginia, with a New ForewordUnsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby's masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions, in both men and material, that the state made to the new nation's war effort, Shelby shows how Virginia's...
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Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton IIIWinner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), a Confederate general whose life provides a unique, sweeping insight into the entire history of the Civil War in...
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North of the RiverAuthor: Mark B. HigginsonPublisher: iUniversePublished: 12/20/2000Pages: 494Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.10w x 1.17dISBN: 9780595149254This title is not returnable
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The Thirty Years WarEurope in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways...
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