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China AirlinesThe history of China Airlines as flag carrier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) goes back to the development of aviation on mainland China. At the end of the second Kuomintang/Communist civil war in 1949, the government of the Republic of China retreated to...
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Just Another Day in Vietnam"The account is riveting, heart-pounding and mind-racing--just as the battle was for those who fought it..." -- ARMY MagazineKeith Nightingale's accomplishments in both military and civilian life largely contribute to the excellence of Just Another Day in Vietnam as a memoir of unusual depth...
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The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic HeistsThe Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics of each of their train robberies--planning, execution, and escape--are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background...
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Otra Gran Obra Maestra del Cine / The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Mas TerpieceDel actor ganador del Premio de la Academia y autor del best seller Tipos singulares, llega una nueva novela sobre la realización de una película de acción de superhéroes multimillonaria repleta de estrellas... y de los humildes cómics que lo inspiraron. Una novela divertida,...
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Las Cocineras de Fenley / The Kitchen FrontUna novela inolvidable sobre un concurso de cocina en tiempos de guerra patrocinado por la BBC y la historia de las cuatro mujeres que participan para tener la oportunidad de mejorar sus vidas. Dos años después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Gran Bretaña siente...
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Where Destiny Commands: 1939 - 1945: A Time of Love and WarBased on true events and discovered letters, Where Destiny Commands is a love story set against the devastating backdrop of war.1940: As WWII engulfs the world, the British Raj faces its final years in India. A young Indian doctor embarks on the journey of...
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The Immigrant's WifeNot all men who abandon their families are scoundrels. A story of love and perseverance set when consumption ravaged America. Anna Patrinos is deserted by her husband. What she doesn't know is he anonymously exiled to a TB sanatorium to protect her and their...
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Faith of Fools: A Journal of the Klondike Gold RushThis dramatic journal and William Shape's accompanying photographs give a human dimension to the journey undertaken by vast hordes of prospectors who headed north during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. Here we learn just how difficult it was to carry thousands...
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Lockheed Sr-71 BlackbirdThe Lockheed Blackbird family - the A-12, YF-12, and SR-71 - were the most remarkable reconnaissance and evaluation aircraft ever designed. Routinely flying more than 15 miles above the earth, at three times the speed of sound, the extraordinary black jets only flew operationally...
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The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins: A Pioneering PhilanthropistFew women have had a more significant impact on the development and growth of Lawrence, Kansas, and the University of Kansas than Elizabeth Miller Watkins. Elizabeth Josephine Miller was born in Ohio in 1861 and moved with her family to Lawrence when she was...
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Douglas DC-3It is fair to say that the DC-3 was the very first true airliner, and it paved the way for the hundreds of increasingly advanced commercial aircraft that have emerged over the eighty years since Douglas' design was developed. The story of the C-47...
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A Ritchie BoyBased on true events, A Ritchie Boy is the inspiring World War II tale of Eli Stoff, a Jewish Austrian immigrant who becomes a US Army intelligence officer, triumphs over adversity, and finds his place in America.Author: Linda KassPublisher: She Writes PressPublished: 09/01/2020Pages: 224Binding...
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ConcordeThe desire for airliners that could fly faster and higher than all that had gone before them was ingrained into the commercial aviation world from the end of World War Two. As early as 1954, with the Comet program already floundering, talks began in...
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Unforgotten Voices From Heart MountainUNFORGOTTEN Voices from Heart Mountain chronicles the lives of those who lived on both sides of the barbed wire fence in a place known as Heart Mountain, a U.S. government prison camp in the harsh high desert of Wyoming during World War II. In...
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The Truth about Watergate: A Tale of Extraordinary Lies & LiarsA delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it...
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Virginia Woolf:: Art, Education, and InternationalismVirginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism is a wide-ranging collection of essays. Contributors include Jane de Gay, Patricia Laurence, Judith Allen, Suzanne Bellamy, Diane F. Gillespie, Elisa Kay Sparks, and Diana L. Swanson. These and other Woolf scholars address topics as diverse as Woolf's...
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On the Pony Express Trail: One Man's Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of SaddleOn The Pony Express Trail: One Man's Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts Scott Alumbaugh's experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail during the summer of 2021. The narrative follows his day-to-day experiences and impressions--the challenges, the sites he...
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Operation Valuable Fiend: The Cia's First Paramilitary Strike Against the Iron CurtainIn 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today's National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency. They hatched an...
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Redeeming the TimeHere, Russell Kirk counsels the reader to direct his energies toward cultural renewal. Distilled in these pages are many of the central tenets of Kirk's brand of humane conservatism. Kirk discusses the recovery of real education, the dangers of our current social order, and...
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The Santa Fe TrailOriginally published in 1930 and now considered the standard work on the subject, this lively history is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press."A vivacious and accurate chronicle of one of the great highways of commerce."--Henry Steele Commager"Best of this century...
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