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We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American DemocracyChristianity Today Book Award The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable MentionForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness of government, and the prejudices of the voting majority...
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The Story of World War IIDrawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought...
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Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American CityFrom an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by one of...
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Wilderness and Spotsylvania 1864: Grant Versus Lee in the EastGrant and Lee fought near Chancellorsville, VA in a confusing series of battles amidst brush thickets and wildfires. Unlike previous campaigns, Grant simply kept flanking Lee, trying frontal assaults at Spotslvania's 'mule-shoe' and Cold Harbor along the way to laying seige to Richmond and...
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The Decision to Use the Atomic BombWith a new preface by the author Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold War, an event that...
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B-36 'Peacemaker' Units of the Cold WarA fully illustrated study into the extraordinary Convair B-36 during the Cold War. Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 was to be primarily a 10,000-mile bomber with heavy defensive armament,...
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Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War WorldWhile some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin--the so-called "Big Three"--met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining,...
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The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American FinanceThe Battle over the Charter of the Second Bank of the United States and Its Lasting Impact on the American Economy Late one night in July 1832, Martin Van Buren rushed to the White House where he found an ailing President Andrew Jackson weakened...
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P-40 Warhawk Aces of the CbiThis book details the colourful experiences of the elite pilots of the AAF's Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces in the 'forgotten' China-Burma-India theatre during WW2. Inheriting the legacy of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), units such as the 23rd FG 'held the line' against...
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Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian RevolutionLand Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution explores how Mao's narrative of rural revolution became a reality, at great human cost.Author: Brian DemarePublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 07/23/2019Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9781503609518Review Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2019About the AuthorBrian DeMare...
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Mikoyan Gurevich Mig-21mfThe supersonic fighter in the Polish Air Force of the MiG-21MF is described in unparalleled detail. Includes many unpublished photos from the private collections. Color schemes and markings are described and illustrated in a series of specially commissioned color profiles.Author: Adam GoląbekPublisher: MMPPublished: 02/03/2022Pages:...
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world's population. Japan's onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary...
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Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian CaliforniaLos Angeles is home to the largest population of people of Middle Eastern origin and descent in the United States. Since the late nineteenth century, Syrian and Lebanese migration, in particular, to Southern California has been intimately connected to and through Latin America. Arab...
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Bayonne and Toulouse 1813-14: Wellington Invades FranceThe news of Wellington's momentous victory at Vitoria on 21 June 1813 reached London in early July. The celebration spawned an expectation of a rapid conclusion to events in the Peninsula. His Majesty's Government gave authority for Wellington to invade France and made noises...
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No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965-75This is the second part of a highly detailed yet accessible two-volume history of America's involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II through to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. No Wider War is the second part of a two-volume, accessible...
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The English Civil Wars 1642-1651The period 1642-1651, one of the most turbulent in the history of mainland Britian, saw the country torn by civil wars. Focusing on the English and Welsh wars this book examines the causes, course and consequences of the conflicts. While offering a concise military...
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Life After ManzanarFrom the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement" the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were...
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A-3 Skywarrior Units of the Vietnam WarThe Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, though something of a cult favourite, remains a largely unremarked classic of Naval Aviation. Built for nuclear weapon delivery, the A-3 made its name in Vietnam as a conventional bomber, tanker and Electronic Warfare platform. It was the largest aircraft...
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Fall Gelb 1940 (2): Airborne Assault on the Low CountriesThis highly illustrated title deals with the great blitzkrieg campaign of May/June 1940 as German forces poured through Holland and Belgium to confront the French and British. The campaign was audacious, relying on speed and feinting and maneuvers as much as superior force. In...
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RAF Tornado Units in Combat 1992-2019The Tornado units were deployed in many operational missions in the most recent conflicts over the Middle East and the Balkans. Featuring many first-hand combat accounts, this book tells the story of the backbone of the RAF frontline through the 1990s and up until...
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