Category: History

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

By: Bellavia, Sgt. David

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pocket Star

Seller ID: 9781416596608

ISBN-13: 9781416596608

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

THE CLASSIC SOLDIER'S MEMOIR FROM MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT STAFF SERGEANT DAVID BELLAVIA "A rare and gripping account of frontline combat."--LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty "They used to say that the real war will never get in the books. Here it does, stunningly." --Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq and Making the Corps "To read this book is to know intimately the daily grind and danger of men at war."--Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David ...
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Around the World in New York

By: Bercovici, Konrad

Price: $20.21

Publisher: NY, Century : 1924

Seller ID: 4NH033

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD

Starting to loosen, pages yellowed, light soil, square. Spine ends fraying. Inscription. A tour of NY's ethnic neighborhoods in the 1920s.: The Syrian Quarter; Greece; One the East Side; China; Little Italy; The American Quarter: Greenwich Village; The Gypsy Quarters; Africa; In the Balkan Countries; Spain; France; Germany; Hungary; Czechoslovakia; Scattered Nations. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

By: Berkin, Carol

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mariner Books

Seller ID: 9780156028721

ISBN-13: 9780156028721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future Though the American Revolution is widely recognized as our nation's founding story, the years immediately following the war--when our government was a disaster and the country was in a terrible crisis--were in fact the most crucial in establishing the country's independence. The group of men who traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 had no idea what kind of history their meeting would make. But all their ideas, arguments, and compromises--from the creation of the Constitution itself, ar...
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The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Blaine, Gerald

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Gallery Books

Seller ID: 9781439192993

ISBN-13: 9781439192993

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as told by the Secret Service agents who were firsthand witnesses to one of America's greatest tragedies. The Secret Service. An elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed--and a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFK's Secret Service detail reveals the inside story of the assassination, the weeks and days that led ...
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V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II

By: Blum, John Morton

Price: $11.95

Publisher: San Diego, CA, Harvest / Harcourt Brace : 1977

Seller ID: 26T005

ISBN-13: 9780156936286

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

As new except for crease on front cover corner, sticker on back cover, 1 folded page corner. "focusing chiefly on the home front: on how our cullture and politics affected the course of the war, and how the war in turn affected us and our expectations fo the postwar world here and abroad..." 372 indexed annotated pages. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Waltzing With a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy

By: Bonner, Raymond

Price: $32.95

Publisher: NY, Times Books / Random House : 1987

Seller ID: 7-5H009

ISBN-13: 9780812916645

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

As new except for slight edgewear to covers. "the startling story of America's twenty-year partnership with the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda?the often shocking, always enlightening inside story of the Washington-Marcos alliance." 534 indexed, annotated pages including Bibliography. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Why the Civil War Came

By: Boritt, Gabor S. (Ed.)

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press : 1997

Seller ID: 94T017

ISBN-13: 9780195113761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

As new except for slight curl. 7 essays by eminent historians who participated in the Oxford - Gettsysburg Civil War summer Institute. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Seals

By: Bosiljevac, T.L.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Seller ID: 9780804107228

ISBN-13: 9780804107228

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (1492-2000)

By: Boyer, Clark, Kett, Salisbury, Sitkoff, Woloch

Price: $19.95

Seller ID: 89Y017

ISBN-13: 9780395960776

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+

Tight, bright, clean (no notes or underlining), slight skew. Exterior corners are worn through. 953 pages +46 (Appendix) +26 (Bibliography) +4 (Photo Credits) +54 (Index), 10.25x8". Heavy, may require additional postage. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Top Guns: America's Fighter Aces tell Their Most Daring and Spectatular Stories

By: Brennan, Matthew,Foss, Joe

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Pocket

Seller ID: 9780671683184

ISBN-13: 9780671683184

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

By: Brinkley, Douglas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: William Morrow

Seller ID: 9780061124235

ISBN-13: 9780061124235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama.First came the hurricane, one of the three strongest ever to make landfall in the United States -- 150-mile-per-hour winds, with gusts measuring more than 180 miles per hour ripping buildings to pieces.Second, the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half million homes, cr...
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Bodyguard of Lies

By: Brown, Anthony Cave

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W.H. Allen / Virgin Books

Seller ID: 9780553010534

ISBN-13: 9780553010534

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West

By: Brown, Dee

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bison Books

Seller ID: 9780803250253

ISBN-13: 9780803250253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed.
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Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture 1901 (Public Document No. 18)

By: Brown, James F. (Secretary, Connecticut Board of Agriculture)

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Hartford, CT, Hartford Press : 1902

Seller ID: 6-1H015

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD

READING COPY - UGLY. Tight, age tanned pages clean except for light soil to exterior edges, faded and stained covers, square. A " who's who" of Connecticut agriculture in 1901. No dust jacket. A complete account of the 3 day mid-winter meeting in Bridgeport, CT, with full transcript of presentations and discussions, list of state fairs, Connecticut exhibitors at the Pan-American Exposition, list of Agricultural Societies, and directory of Granges. 321 pages plus 57 page appendix inserted at end: "A Catalogue of all Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants at Present Known to Grow Without...
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Med hest og karjol: Gjennom Norge og Island for 100 are siden (Original title: The Land of Thor)

By: Browne, J. Ross

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Oslo, Norway, J.W. Cappelens Forlag : 1969

Seller ID: 20T029

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+

Tight, bright, clean, slight tilt. No dust jacket. Parchment finish on covers with gilt designs and lettering. Faint wear to spine ends and cover corners. Owners bookplate on first free page. Newspaper clipping about the book (in Norwegian) is enclosed and has left a slight shadow on the title page. Norwegian translation of 1867 book about travel though Norway and Iceland by horse and buggy a hundred years ago, illustrated with drawing by the author. 187 pages. Text in Norwegian. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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La Civilisation de la Renaissance en Italie II

By: Burckhardt, Jacob (L. Schmitt, trans.)

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Editions Gonthier : 1958

Seller ID: 83P003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

Tight, faint page yellowing, clean, square. Rubbed through spot on front cover. Text in French. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Reflections on the Revolution in France & The Rights of Man

By: Burke, Edmund,Paine, Thomas

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Anchor

Seller ID: 9780385081900

ISBN-13: 9780385081900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Negro in American Culture. Based on Materials Left By Alain Locke

By: Butcher, Margaret Just

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New American Library

Seller ID: B000N76B9O

ISBN: B000N76B9O

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe

By: Caldwell, Donald L.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Seller ID: 9780804110501

ISBN-13: 9780804110501

Binding: Trade Paperback

The Tartan Pimpernel

By: Caskie, Donald

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Birlinn

Seller ID: 9781841580142

ISBN-13: 9781841580142

Binding: Trade Paperback

Donald Caskie's autobiography is the story of an extraordinary Scotsman. During World War II, he established escape routes across the Pyrenees and spirited out many hundreds of British troops from under the noses of Vichy and the Wehrmacht.
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