Category: History

Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her

By: Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor

Price: $7.75

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Seller ID: 9780743260817

ISBN-13: 9780743260817

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons. By the beginning of 1945, American pilots were shooting down Japanese planes more than ten to one. The Japanese had so few metals left that the military had begun using wooden coins and clay pots for hand grenades. For the first time in 800 years, Japan faced imminent invasion. As Germany faltered, the combined strength of every warring nation gathered at Japan's door. Desperate, Japan turned to its most idealistic young men -- t...
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Colonial Empires and Armies 1815-1960

By: Kiernan, V. G.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Sutton Publishing

Seller ID: 9780750916011

ISBN-13: 9780750916011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A wide-ranging book which brings within a single view the wars which created Europe's empires. Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, it presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.
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Curzon's Persia

By: King, Peter (ed. & intro.)

Price: $17.95

Publisher: London, UK, Sidgwick & Jackson Limited : 1988

Seller ID: 6-6Y001

ISBN-13: 9780283997426

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

Tight, bright, clean with faint curl. Light rubbing to cover edges and faint corner bump to bottom corner. An abridged version of the 2 volume, 1892 book of Curzon's travels on the following route: Ashkabad, Kuchan, Kelat-I-Nadiri, Meshed, Teheran, The Northern Provinces, Teheran, Ishfahan, Shiraz to Bushire.192 pages full of illustrations and with double page detailed map of Persia, Afghanistan & Beluchistan. (dated 1891). 7.5x10" NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Byzantine Art in the Making: Main Lines of Stylistic Development in Mediterranean Art, 3rd-7th Century

By: Kitzinger, Ernst

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Seller ID: 9780674089563

ISBN-13: 9780674089563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Finds a correspondence between the evolution of stylistic forms in Early Christian art and the social, religious, and historical developments of the period.
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Union Pacific: Volume I, 1862-1893 (Volume 1)

By: Klein, Maury

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press

Seller ID: 9780816644599

ISBN-13: 9780816644599

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry today. The laying of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the continent to settlement but also the transformation of the United States from an agricultural nation to an industrial one.Maury Klein, America's foremost railroad historian, re-creates the powerful personalities and dramatic events that led to the construction of this legendary railroad. Fully illustrated with over one hundred historic photographs a...
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By: Kyle, Chris,McEwen, Scott,DeFelice, Jim

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Seller ID: 9780062238863

ISBN-13: 9780062238863

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that's extremely readable." -- PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book ReviewJaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting. --RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-TimesFrom 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions ...
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Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire

By: L'Orange, Hans Peter

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Seller ID: 9780691003054

ISBN-13: 9780691003054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In this study, originally published in Norway as Fra Principat Til Dominat, Professor L'Orange sets down the essence of his thought on the crucial period of transition from decentralization to standardization in civic and cultural life-a period not unlike our own.

The Treasury: The Regalia and Treasure of the Realm

By: Landergren, Ulla (ed.)

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Stockholm, Sweden, The Royal Collections, The Treasury, Stockholm : 1987

Seller ID: 5-1X003

ISBN-13: 9789185726264

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

As new except for a crease down the center of the front cover. A wonderful pictorial essay on Swedish coronations from 1528 to the present. Lavishly illustrated with swords, orbs, sceptres, portraits and crowns (including one on a hat). 52 pages. Text in English.
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City of Joy

By: Lapierre, Dominique

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Doubleday

Seller ID: 9780385189521

ISBN-13: 9780385189521

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture

By: Lecklider, Aaron

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of California Press

Seller ID: 9780520381421

ISBN-13: 9780520381421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the early prewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opp...
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1603 : A Turning Point in British History

By: Lee, Christopher

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Review

Seller ID: 9780747234265

ISBN-13: 9780747234265

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Opulence and Splendor": The New York Chair 1690-1830, Gallery Exhibition 1984

By: Levy, Bernard & S. Dean

Price: $25.95

Publisher: NY, Bernard & S. Dean Levy : 1984

Seller ID: 90Y025

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

As new except for owner's note of purchase place and date on title page. "45 illustrations with study profiles" "the object of the exhibition?is to call attention to the artistic merits of the New York maker?" 45 pages with black and white photos, staple-bound, 11x8.5" (27.9x21.6cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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TVA: Democracy on the March

By: Lilienthal, David

Price: $9.32

Publisher: NY, Pocket(#288) : 1945

Seller ID: 48P033

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Light soil. Spine-Faded and heavy rubbing to edges. Some rubbing to both covers. Letter "D" written in pencil on front cover. Tight and square. Appears unread. "The Most important book of 1944.""Send this book to a boy in the armed forces anywhere in the US, only 4 cents." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Phantom Warriors: Book I: LRRPs, LRPs, and Rangers in Vietnam

By: Linderer, Gary

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Seller ID: 9780804119986

ISBN-13: 9780804119986

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Here are some of the most courageous missions executed by six-man teams on their own deep behind enemy lines.
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Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows (Bison Book)

By: Linderman, Frank B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bison Books

Seller ID: 9780803257917

ISBN-13: 9780803257917

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

""Originally published in 1932 as "Red Mother," this book was perhaps the first record of the women s side of Indian life, and it has become a classic work in its field.Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an interpreter and using the sign language. A medicine woman of the Crows, she was one of the few who remembered what it was like before the white man came and the buffalo went away. She tells about the simple games and dolls of an Indian childhood and the duties of the girls and women setting up the lodges, dressing the skins, picking berries, digging roots, cooking. From...
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The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories & Secrets Behind the Sinking of the Unsinkable Ship-Titanic

By: Lord, Walter J

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Avon

Seller ID: 9780380732036

ISBN-13: 9780380732036

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The most awesome ocean-going vessel the world had ever seen, the mightly TITANIC struck an iceberg and sank on the night of April 14, 1912, carrying more than 1500 souls--and uncountable secrets--to the icy bottom of the mid-Atlantic. Why did the crew steam full speed ahead into dangerous waters despite six wireless warnings? How able was the doomed behemoths superb seaman Captain Smith? Why did the nearby ship Californian ignore Titanics distress signals? How could such a disaster ever have occurred?Author Walter Lords acclaimed classic A Night to Remember is considered the definitive written...
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Women of the west

By: Luchetti, Cathy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Antelope Island Press

Seller ID: 9780917946028

ISBN-13: 9780917946028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: An Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian

By: Lurie, Nancy Oestrich (Ed.)

Price: $10.95

Seller ID: 01H016

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE/ No DJ

As new except for sunning of spine. "Nancy Lurie's tape recording of the year-by-year experience of a Winnebago woman thus far stands almost alone as source material for a woodland Indian woman's activities and attitudes?" 143 pages including Dr. Lurie's explanatory notes regarding reference and customs, 9x5.5" (22.9x14cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Cowboy and Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia with Price Guide and Makers Index

By: Macklin, Bill

Price: $32.95

Publisher: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Publishing : 1989

Seller ID: 04Y026

ISBN-13: 9780878422449

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

As new except for light bumps to back, exterior corners. 175 indexed pages with photos, descriptioins, Indexed price guide, indexed maker's list and reference list of badges, belt, bits, blankets, branding iron, bridles, cartridges, chaps, coats, Colts, gauntlets and gloves, fun rigs, handcuffs, hasp, hobbles, knives, loading tools, neckerchiefs, pokes, powder horns and flasks, quirts, reins, ropes and reatas, saddles, saddle bags, saddle maker's tools, saddle scabbards, scales, skirts, riding spurs, sticking tommy, stingy guns, stirrups, tapaderos, watch fobs, Winchesters. 11x8.5" (27.9x21.6c...
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Congressional Quarterly's Constitutions of the World

By: Maddex, Robert L. (ed.)

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Washington, DC, Congressional Quarterly : 1995

Seller ID: 40H025

ISBN: 871879921

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD/Near Fine

Ex library w/stamps, plastic cover & file location on spine. Tight, bright, clean & square. Great reference book for Political science student. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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