Category: History
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Illustrated History of the Third Reich
By: Bradley, John
Price: $10.95
Publisher: NY, ©1978
Edition: (reprint)
Seller ID: 8NY026
ISBN: 0517160358
Condition: NEAR FINE/Near Fine
"As new except for softening at top of spine. DJ as new except for 1/4"" rip on top edge. 256 pages (12.25 x9.5""), Glossary, Bibliography & Index, hundreds of black and white photos - most pages contain multiple photos." View more info
Why the Confederacy Lost
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press:
Seller ID: 9780195085495
ISBN: 0195085493
Condition: GOOD
After the Civil War, someone asked General Pickett why the Battle of Gettysburg had been lost: Was it Lee's error in taking the offensive, the tardiness of Ewell and Early, or Longstreet's hesitation in attacking? Pickett scratched his head and replied, "I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it." This simple fact, writes James McPherson, has escaped a generation of historians who have looked to faulty morale, population, economics, and dissent as the causes of Confederate failure. These were all factors, he writes, but the Civil War was still a war--won by the Union army thr... View more info
"Sallust, The Jugurthine War, The Conspiracy of Cataline"
By: N/A
Price: $1.00
Publisher: Penguin Books:
Seller ID: B00TB0MM2E
ISBN: B00TB0MM2E
Condition: acceptable
"The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged"
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:
Edition: 6
Seller ID: 9780395652374
ISBN: 0395652375
Condition: GOOD
For decades William L. Langer's best-selling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY was the indispensable, authoritative guide to all of human history. Now, under the direction of a distinguished new editor, comes an updated and dramatically improved version for a new generation, the only encyclopedia of its kind with a bound-in, searchable compact disc of the complete text. The result is a wholly accessible, absorbing canvas of world history that no student, scholar, or amateur historian should be without. Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty prominent historians have combined their expe... View more info
"American Attitudes Toward Japan, 1941 - 1975"
Price: $8.95
Publisher: "Stanford, CA/ Washington, DC", 1975
Edition: (1st edition)
Seller ID: 99H024
ISBN: 084473179X
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"Tight, bright, clean & square. Light rubbing to covers and a single faint crease on each cover. ""examines American perceptions of Japan and traces them from World War II to the present…contends that once stereotypes take hold, they can shape international events..."" 114 pages, 9x6"" (22.9x15cm)" View more info
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)
Price: $7.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company:
Seller ID: 9780393354256
ISBN: 0393354253
Condition: GOOD
Through Hell and Deep Water
By: "Adamson, Hans Christian, A., Charles Lockwood"
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Bantam:
Seller ID: 9780553291780
ISBN: 0553291785
Condition: GOOD
The Tudor Tutor: Your Cheeky Guide to the Dynasty
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing:
Seller ID: 9781634504027
ISBN: 163450402X
Condition: very good
"Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers"
Price: $7.50
Publisher: NAL Trade:
Seller ID: 9780451218391
ISBN: 0451218396
Condition: GOOD
"In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the others...."They were Easy Company, 101st Army Airborne--the World War II fighting unit legendary for their bravery against nearly insurmountable odds and their loyalty to one another in the face of death. Every soldier in this band of brothers looked to one man for leadership, devotion to duty, and the embodiment of courage: Major Dick Winters.This is the riveting story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero. After he enlisted in the army's arduous new Airborne division, Winters's natural combat leaders... View more info
Will the soviet Union Survive Until 1984?
Price: $9.95
Publisher: NY, 1970
Edition: (1st American Edition)
Seller ID: 48T015
Condition: VERY GOOD
"As new except for sun fading of spine. Appears unread. ""a penetrating and balanced analysis of the structure of the Soviet Union(in 1970)"" by a Russian historian and playwright expelled from Moscow University in 1963 for political reasons. Spine slightly faded with small tear on bottom rear corner. Clean and tight. " View more info
"Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest"
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster:
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780743216456
ISBN: 0743216458
Condition: GOOD
As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In "Band of Brothers," Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories... View more info
"China, My Great Teacher"
By: "Anderson, Sid"
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Xlibris, 2005
Seller ID: 7-5T025
ISBN: 141347103x
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! Signed and inscribed by author. ""How you and China can learn and profit from the mistakes of the United States"" ""dedicated to Chinese students studying or proficient in English"" ""It's been said that there are more English learners in China than there are native English speakers in the whole world"" 126 pages." View more info
Dans Les Vastes Plaines Russes
Price: $13.95
Publisher: "Moscow, Russia", 1986
Edition: (2e)
Seller ID: 1NX002
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"As new except for slight tilt and owner's name and date on first free page. Glossy photo covers. Livre de lecture avec commentaries en francais. Illustrated with maps and color photos. Introduction in French, text in Russian." View more info
Daily Life in Venice at the Time of Casanova (Original title: Venise au temps de Casanova) (Daily Life Series 18)
By: "Andrieux, Maurice (Mary Fitton, trans.)"
Price: $36.95
Publisher: NY, 1972
Seller ID: 21H002
Condition: FINE / Near Fine
"As new except that back flap of dust jacket has clipped bottom corner (not price clipped). Navy blue cloth with silver gilt titles. ""Venice in the latter half of the eighteenth century must have been the most joyful place on earth ' freer than anywhere of the idiocies of feudalism and superstition that still beset the rest of Europe'... "" 232 indexed pages" View more info
I Have Spoken: American History Through the Voices of the Indians
By: "Armstrong, Virginia Irving (compiler)"
Price: $4.95
Publisher: NY, 1972
Edition: (1st printing)
Seller ID: 92P005
Condition: VERY GOOD+
"Tight, yellowed pages, clean, square. Reading crease on spine. A collection of the oratory of the American Indian from the 17th century to the present day" View more info
The Civil War at Charleston-Post Courier Booklet
By: "Arthur Wilcox, Warren Ripley"
Price: $3.00
Publisher: News and Courier/Evening Post:
Seller ID: B003XNP7N6
ISBN: B003XNP7N6
Condition: GOOD
"The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830"
Price: $3.50
Publisher: "Oxford University Press, USA":
Seller ID: 9780195002522
ISBN: 0195002520
Condition: GOOD
"An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy"
By: "Atkinson, Rick"
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks:
Seller ID: 9780805087246
ISBN: 0805087249
Condition: GOOD
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER "A splendid book... The emphasis throughout is on the human drama of men at war."--"The Washington Post Book World"The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Opening with the daring amphibious in... View more info
Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery
By: "Atkinson, Rick"
Price: $15.00
Publisher: National Geographic:
Seller ID: 9781426200892
ISBN: 1426200897
Condition: very good
Arlington National Cemetery spreads across the rolling hills west of the Potomac, a serene and reverent sanctuary for the presidents, soldiers, and heroes--famous and unsung alike--who lie in eternal rest among its green lawns and quiet glades, a roster dating back to America's birth and including many of the foremost names in our history. A national monument in the truest sense, Arlington's solemn beauty embraces a brave legacy--a heritage remembered and renewed every day as the military buries its own. Bittersweet, breath-taking, sometimes heart-wrenching, always deeply respectful, this ... View more info
Napoleon III: La Conquete de Pouvoir
Price: $7.25
Publisher: "Paris, France", 1934
Seller ID: 4DT080
Condition: NEAR FINE
"Tight, yellowed, clean for age, faint flare. Faint edgewear, slight chipping to spine top. Text in French. Illustrations." View more info