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The Osama bin Laden I Know : An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Free Press:
Seller ID: 9780743278928
No one knows more about Osama bin Laden than Peter Bergen. In 1997, well before the West suddenly became aware of the world's most sought-after terrorist, Bergen met with him and has followed his activities ever since. Today, years after President Bush swore to get him dead or alive and despite haunting the popular imagination since September 11, 2001, bin Laden remains shrouded in mystery and obscured by a barrage of facts, details and myths. With numerous never-be... View more info
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
Price: $8.45
Publisher: Wiley:
Seller ID: 9780471003786
In this exciting new book, Peter L. Bernstein, who chronicled the evolution of risk in his recent bestseller, Against the Gods, tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas through the modern convulsions caused by the gold standard and its aftermath, gold has led many of its most eager and proud possessors to a bad end. Gold had them, rather than the other way around. And while the sam... View more info
Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War
Price: $4.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Seller ID: 9780006387497
UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN (VIRAGO TRAVELLERS)
Price: $1.65
Publisher: VIRAGO PRESS LTD:
Seller ID: 9780860684220
"Eire - Ireland A Journal of Irish Studies (Vol XLIV:3 & 4, Fall/Winter Fomhar/Geimhreadh, 2011)"
By: "Bloom, Emily C. et Al(James S Donnely, Jr, ed.), "
Price: $19.95
Publisher: "Morristown, NJ", Irish American Cultural Institute: 2011
Edition: Vol 46
Seller ID: 8-7H002
"As new except for faintest curl to cover corners. 14 interdisciplinary essays - 4 associated with the 2012 exhibition at Boston College ""Rural Ireland: The Inside Story"", 3 on children, Dion Boucicault, Diaspora/Boston, Casement/ ""Black Diaries"", Valentine Greatrakes/ Protestants, 2 on Poetry & Oral traditions. Illustration, annotations and bibliographies where appropriate. 280 pages. ISSN# 00132683" View more info
Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War
Price: $7.95
Publisher: "London, UK", Penguin: 1993
Seller ID: 7-9T004
"Tight, bright, clean and square. Faintest age tanning of pages, owner's name stamp and note on first free page, spine and cover creases, slight rubbing to hinge and spine ends. ""A compassionately edited collection of personal, and largely intimate, writings from the Second World War...""" View more info
Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Knopf:
Seller ID: 9781400042432
An urgent reconceptualization of the Wars on Terror from the author of "The Shield of Achilles" ("magisterial"-- "The New York Times," "a classic for future generations"--"The New York Review of Books"). In this book Philip Bobbitt brings together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a "war on terror." Does it make sense? What are its historical antecedents? How would such a war be "won"? What are the appropriate doctrines of constitutional... View more info
Antisemitism: A History Portrayed
By: "Boonstra, Jansen & Kniesmeyer (ed)"
Price: $18.95
Publisher: "Amsterdam, Netherlands", Anne Frank Foundation: 1989
Seller ID: 7-NY001
"Tight, right, clean and square. Light shelfwear to covers with rubbed edges and a reading crease on the spine. ""The Concept of antisemitism refers to ideas and actions directed against Jews and Judaism…This is in the first place a history in pictures: an anti-Jewish language of images as it has developed over hundreds of years...""129 indexed, illustrated pages including Bibliography. 7.75x10.75x.5""" View more info
Why the Civil War Came
Price: $17.95
Publisher: "Oxford, UK", OXFORD UNIV PR: 1997
Edition: (1st thus)
Seller ID: 94T017
As new except for slight curl. 7 essays by eminent historians who participated in the Oxford - Gettsysburg Civil War summer Institute. View more info
"The Historian, Volume 76 Number 2 Summer 2014"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: 2014
Seller ID: 5-4H002
"As new - gift quality! Historical Journal. Contents: "" Chinese Shogun: Gao Huan (496-547)"" by Charles Holcombe; ""The Cossack Herman: Ivan Mazepa in History and Legend from Peter to Pushkin"" by Thomas M. Prymak; ""How Many American Loyalists Left the United States?"" By Philip Ranle; "" Afghanistan after the Occupation: Examining the Post-Soviet Withdrawal and the Najibullah Regime It Left Behind, 1989 - 199... View more info
"The Historian, Volume 76 Number 4 Winter 2014"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: 2014
Seller ID: 5-4H003
"As new - gift quality! Historical Journal. Contents: ""A Hierophany Emergent: The Discursive Reconquest pof theUrban Landscape in Jerusalem in Latin Pilgrimage Accounts from the Twelfth Century"" by Basit Hammad Qureshi; ""A Case Study of Education and Nationalism: The Multicultural Flight for 'Souls and Minds' in Finland"" by Jyrki Loima; ""Jessie Jordan: A Rejected Scot who Spied fopr Germany and Hastened America's Flight f... View more info
"The Historian, Volume 77 Number 1 Spring 2015"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: 2015
Seller ID: 5-4H004
As new - gift quality! View more info
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
By: "Bowden, Mark"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Signet:
Seller ID: 9780451203939
On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is the extraordinary minute-by-minute account of that courageous, historic, and brutal night. View more info
Black Hawk Down:: A Story of Modern War
By: "Bowden, Mark"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Signet:
Seller ID: 9780451205148
"Silver Wings, A History of the United States Air Force"
By: "Boyne, Walter J. (General James H. Doolittle, Foreword"
Price: $19.95
Publisher: NY, 1993
Edition: (1st edition)
Seller ID: 15Y008
"As new - gift quality! Unclipped DJ. ""a thoroughly refreshing, lively and informative history of the United States Air Force…from Civil War ballooning to…its spectacular successes in recent decades…the colorful inside story of the events and the men and women who shaped the Air Force into the most powerful military force in history..."" 336 indexed pages filled with black and white (where appropriate) and color photos with detailed captioning.... View more info
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
By: "Bradley, James"
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Back Bay Books:
Seller ID: 9780316159432
This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. The fate of the others-an explosive 60-year-old secret-is revealed for the first time in FLYBOYS. View more info
The First Peoples of the Northeast
By: "Braun, Esther K. & David P."
Price: $17.95
Publisher: "Lincoln, MA", 2000
Edition: (3rd printing)
Seller ID: 5-0Y019
"As new except for sticker remnant on back cover. ""...The First Peoples of the Northeast is a fine first book to recommend for people who are interested in the history of native peoples in this region in particular, or who are interested in archaeology in general... "" 144 indexed, illustrated pages including Bibliography and places to visit. 8.5x11x.5""" View more info
"The Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1789 - 1850 (The Norton History of Modern Europe)"
Price: $11.95
Publisher: NY, 1977
Edition: (2nd edition)
Seller ID: 22T011
"As new - gift quality! ""The French Revolution of 1789 is a watershed in European history; no country escaped its impact, which shattered long-standing traditions and set forth new ideals that powerfully affected succeeding generations…"" 304 indexed pages with Suggested Further Reading list." View more info