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Pacific Fortress: A History of the Seacoast Defenses of HawaiiPacific Fortress, A History of the Seacoast Defenses of Hawaii is a revealing historical account of the U.S. Army's coastal defenses of Oahu. This work provides a thorough account of both the seacoast and anti-aircraft branches of the Coast Artillery Corps in this important...
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Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies: Or, the Journal of a Sante Fe Trader, 1831-1839Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairie, published in 1844, is based largely upon entries made into his own journal over the nine years that he lived in Northern Mexico and traversed the Prairie as a proprietor in the Santa F Trade. In utilizing his...
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Deceiving Hitler's Bombers: RAF Decoys and Visual Deception in WWIIThe first, and most essential element in aerial bombardment is that of locating the target. All the inherent costs and risks in undertaking a bombing raid are of no avail unless the objective of the mission is correctly identified. If, through means of decoys...
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A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal EraAuthor: Carol CorneliusPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublished: 07/11/2023Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40dISBN: 9781976600098About the AuthorDr. Carol A. Cornelius, Oneida/Stockbridge Munsee and Montauk, Turtle Clan, earned her PhD in cross-cultural curriculum and American Indian history from Cornell University. She has...
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Memorial Book of Jezierna (Ozerna, Ukraine)In 1920, Jezierna (modern Ozerna, Ukraine), located between Ternopil' and Lviv, became part of the new Republic of Poland. Most Jews in the town made their living as merchants, artisans, and tradesmen: bakers, carpenters, locksmiths, and orchard keepers. Some sold flax, honey, or wheat....
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Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV: Volume 6 - Armies of the Italian States 1660-1690, Part 1It was a commonplace that Italy offers little of interest to military historians after the full flower of the Renaissance, and that it had been deservedly forgotten. Italian Risorgimento desperately wanted to repudiate the values of the previous centuries. In place of a politically...
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The Battle of Lützen 1632: A ReassessmentIn 1632, the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) took another turn. Gustavus Adolphus's triumphal campaign in the Holy Roman Empire was halted at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, where the Imperial-Leaguist Generalleutnant Tilly died of wounds received in the battle Rain am Lech. The former commander of the...
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Throwing Thunderbolts: A Wargamer's Guide to the War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797'Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law... they throw thunderbolts!' -- Maximilien Robespierre.Throwing Thunderbolts is a unique guide to wargaming the wars of the French Revolution that both the beginner and experienced wargamer, new to the period, will enjoy...
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An Agony Continued: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1980-83This book is called An Agony Continued because it was simply that: an agony. It was an agony which commenced at the end of the 1960s and as the new decade of the 80s arrived, so the pain, the grief, the loss and the...
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Fighter Pilot: From Cold War Jets to Spitfires: The Extraordinary Memoirs of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight PilotA young boy sits in the back of a Chipmunk aircraft at RAF Woodvale, near Liverpool. He has never flown in anything before. As the power goes on and the little airplane soars into a clear blue sky, he decides at once that this...
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Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de NeuvilleArtist in Exile is the first in-depth, illustrated exploration of the life and work of Anne Margu rite Jos phine Henriette Rouill de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (1771-1849), who arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France and embarked on...
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The Council of Fifty: A Documentary HistoryMormon Church founder Joseph Smith had both millennialand temporal aspirations for the organizationhe called the Council of Fifty, named after the numberof men who were intended to comprise it. Organized afew months before Smith s death in June 1844, it continuedunder Brigham Young as...
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The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the PresentJonathan W. Emord is one of the nation's foremost experts on constitutional and administrative law and has practiced before the federal courts and agencies for thirty-five years. In The Authoritarians, Emord reveals the untold story and largely hidden practices of Authoritarians who have worked...
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The Bavarian Army During the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648: The Backbone of the Catholic LeagueThe Bavarian Army has been overshadowed by those of Gustavus Adolphus' and Wallenstein's Armies, but it was one of only a few armies to have fought throughout the Thirty Years War, first as part of the Catholic League and then an independent army after...
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The Battle of Rossbach 1757: New Perspectives on the Battle and CampaignOn 5 November 1757, in the vicinity of the small Saxon village of Rossbach, Frederick the Great and his army achieved a spectacular victory over an enemy composed of French and Imperial troops. 22,000 Prussian soldiers drove an army twice their size from the...
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Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in AmericaNamed after a series of charity shows held by the New York social elite during the 1890s, Beauty's Legacy examines the remarkable resurgence of portraiture in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. It features over fifty paintings, including works by...
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J. S. Wooley: Adirondack PhotographerIn 1880, Jesse Sumner Wooley, an energetic and entrepreneurial thirteen-year-old farm boy from Saratoga County, took a job as an errand boy for a pair of town photographers. This summer job led to a career that would define Wooley's life. From that early start,...
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Corvette - America's Star-Spangled Sports Car 1953-1982When it was published in 1973, Corvette-America's Star Spangled Sports Car was groundbreaking as the first book written about the Corvette, or any single car model for that matter. It has since been credited with helping to kick-start the exciting Corvette hobby, and four...
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National Parks Conservation Association: A Century of ImpactA Century of Impact celebrates the first 100 years of the National Parks Conservation Association, tracing its history and vision through stunning photography and tales of victory in a beautifully designed keepsake book. From its founding by the same visionaries who helped to create...
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174The Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. The Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, in...
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