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Vanishing Arizona: a Young Wife of an Officer of the U.S. 8th Infantry in Apacheria During the 1870'sA lady, the desert, the army and the Apaches This is the account of the life of a young army wife who followed her husband-a second lieutenant of infantry-after the turbulent years of the American Civil War, in which he had served, to what...
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Narratives of the French and Indian War: 3-The Capture of Fort Duquesne, Commissary Wilson's Orderly Book. Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, A Journal KeptInvaluable and rare material on the war for North AmericaThis book is the third volume in an ongoing series published by Leonaur for all those interested in the Seven Years' war as it was fought in North America--The French and Indian War. This conflict...
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Narratives of Black Hawk's War, 1832The Expedition Against the Sauk and Fox Indians 1832 by Henry SmithSac and Fox Indians in Kansas by C. R. GreenThe Great Indian Chief of the West: or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk by Benjamin DrakeNarrative of the Capture and Providential Escape of...
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Hobo Roads: Two Accounts of Living Rough in Early 20th Century America-The Adventures of a Woman Hobo by Ethel Lynn & From North CJourneys to the West coast at the time of the Great San Francisco EarthquakeThis unique Leonaur book contains the personal narratives of two people, a woman and a man, who share with readers their experiences of life on the road and railroads in early...
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Narratives of the French and Indian War: 4-Captain Orme's Journal, Royal Navy Officer's Journal, George Croghan's Statement, French and Indian CrueltyFirst-hand accounts from the French and Indian WarInterest in this 18th century war, fought in the woodlands and upon the lakes of the New World, not only between the regular troops of France and Britain, but also including the frontiersmen and militia of both...
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Pictures at a Revolution Lib/E: Five Movies and the Birth of the New HollywoodAuthor: Mark HarrisPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 03/03/2008Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200137732About the AuthorHarris, Mark: - From 1990 to 2006, Mark Harris worked as a writer and editor covering movies, television, and books for Entertainment Weekly, where he now writes the Final Cut back-page column. He has...
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The Deluge Lib/E: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931Author: Adam ToozePublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 11/13/2014Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200036066About the AuthorTooze, Adam: - Adam Tooze is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and codirector of International Security Studies at Yale University. He won the 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History. His groundbreaking...
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Military Orientalism: Eastern War Through Western EyesFrom the Ancient Greeks' obsession with the armies of the Persians, Westerners have been irresistibly drawn to the exotic nature of "Oriental" warfare and have sought either to emulate their enemies' imagined ways of fighting or to incorporate Eastern warriors and "martial races," such...
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American Neoconservatism: The Politics and Culture of a Reactionary IdealismAmerican Neoconservatism moves beyond recent debates over the intricacies of the Bush administration's foreign policy to offer a deeper look at the philosophical premises of this 'new' conservatism in light of the historical events and changing social compacts that have created a demand for...
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American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr StoryReinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was an inner-city pastor, ethics professor, and author of the famous Serenity Prayer. Time magazine's 25th anniversary issue in March 1948 featured Niebuhr on its cover, and Time later eulogized him as "the greatest Protestant theologian in America since Jonathan Edwards."...
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Bible Student Conscientious Objectors in World War One - Britain: For the Sake of the Kingdom"Hitherto, the stand taken by Britain's International Bible Students in opposition to war has been ignored, misunderstood and even dismissed. Gary Perkins' thorough and scholarly work is an essential corrective to all of that. This pioneering work is a necessary contribution to our growing...
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The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro GovernmentThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big ConIn 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle--twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out...
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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game"Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey's book proves it, without wasting a word."--Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number In Baseball, one of the great bards of America's Grand...
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Army Letters From an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888: Experiences on the Western Frontier With the United States ArmyOn the Western Frontier with the U. S Army Some of the most valuable and endearing accounts of life on the nineteenth century American Western frontier have come from the pens of women authors. Among those several have been the wives of military men...
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The Gatlings at Santiago: the History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, U. S. Fifth Army Corps, During the Spanish-American War, Cuba, 1898At war against the Spanish in Cuba This well-known book concerns the United States flexing of its imperial muscle as it expelled the Spanish from Cuba at the close of the nineteenth century. This little campaign, one of the earliest in which American soldiers...
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Frances Slocum the Lost Sister of Wyoming: The Story of a Quaker Girl's Abduction and Life Among the Miami IndiansLife among the Indians Young Frances Slocum was one of a family of peaceful Quakers from the Wyoming Valley, but latterly living in Lenape, Pennsylvania when, in 1778, aged just five years old, she was abducted by a raiding party of Miami Indians and...
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Burning BeethovenBefore World War I, the United States were home to a flourishing German culture. German-Americans were the biggest and most successful ethnic group all over the Midwest. But this culture was wiped out forever by a fury of an anti-German hysteria after America had...
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Not the Work of an Ordinary BoyInjured Ethelred the Unready is one of only three elite carrier pigeons trained to undertake two-way flights. Konstantin von Essen is the traumatized 14-year-old son of Generalfeldmarschall Dieter von Essen, the Commander for Operations in the North Zone of Occupied France. Eleven-year-old Dottie Latymer...
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Paid to Piss People Off: Book 1 PEACEIn the first book of his three-volume memoir, Barry W. Lynn recounts his work as a clergyperson in the United Church of Christ and a lawyer practicing as part of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, working to get President Jimmy Carter to issue an...
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