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  • !Tention: A Story of Boy-Life During the Peninsular War

    A sharp volley, which ran echoing along the ravine, then another, just as the faint bluish smoke from some hundred or two muskets floated up into the bright sunshine from amidst the scattered chestnuts and cork-trees that filled the lower part of the beautiful gorge, where, now hidden, now flashing out and scattering the rays of the sun, a torrent roared and foamed along its rocky course onward ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • " The Power of Eggs: A Comprehensive Guide to History, Nutrition, Facts and Culinary Delights."

    Are you interested in enhancing the nutritious content of your diet by consuming a greater variety of foods? There is no need to look any further than 'The Power of Eggs.' This in-depth guide is loaded with the most recent findings from studies on the nutritional benefits of eggs, including their role in enhancing cognitive function, boosting healthy heart function, and aiding the building of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "'Tis Sixty Years Since"

    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:Excerpt from Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams, Founders Day, January 16, 1913, University of South CarolinaTo say that in life and in the order of life's events it is the unexpected which is apt to occur, is a commonplace. That it has been so in my own case, I shall presently show. ... Read more

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  • "...the real war will never get in the books"

    Selections from Writers During the Civil War

    Edited by Louis P. Masur ...
    "These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • "...until you are safe"

    by TONY SQUIRE ...
    In 1914, as Europe teetered on the edge of war, Australia seemed a world away. Life in the Queensland town of Kilcoy carried on; the country folk oblivious to the catastrophe about to engulf their world, changing their lives forever.Amidst this tranquil backdrop, three young men from the Taylor family, along with many from the town and the surrounding area, eagerly answer the call, rushing to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • "1812" - Napoleon I in Russia

    "1812 - Napoleon I in Russia" by Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin provides readers with a vivid and poignant account of Napoleon Bonaparte's ill-fated Russian campaign. Vereshchagin's artwork is renowned for its ability to capture the essence of historical events, and this book is no exception. Through a combination of evocative paintings and insightful commentary, Vereshchagin immerses readers in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "A Few Bloody Noses"

    The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution

    by Robert Harvey ...
    The noted British historian and author of Liberators offers a colorful, enlightening and myth-busting history of the American Revolution.According to King George III, Britain merely wanted to give America “a few bloody noses” and return to mutual cooperation. Yet the ensuing uprising led to the creation of the United States, the most powerful country in the modern world. In “A Few Bloody Noses”, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "A full moon, thousands of stars...but no Margie"

    by John Gilboe ...
    "A full moon, thousands of stars...but no Margie" offers weekly accounts of love letters written by the author's parents during World War II. Readers will get a glimpse into the daily lives of those deployed and those left behind. The actual words of the letter writers tell the story, and the reader will experience first-hand the joys, fears, frustrations, monotony, hope, and love of a generation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "A Mind Purified by Suffering"

    Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs

    Edited by Olga M. Cooke ...
    Series series The Real Twentieth Century
    “A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirsrepresents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps,Journey into the WhirlwindandWithin the Whirlwind, place her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • "A Mind-Opening Influence of Great Importance": Arthur Raper at Agnes Scott College

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012

    He was such an eye-opener to me . . . such a reversal of the whole way you think about life and society."This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • "A New Kind of War"

    America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece

    by Howard Jones ...
    America's experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during the mid-1960's. Greece became the battlefield for a new kind of war--one that included the use of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • "A Peculiar People"

    Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

    Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People", J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • "A Problem from Hell"

    America and the Age of Genocide

    From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the worldIn her prizewinning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch"

    The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus

    Series series Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
    Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThis extraordinary wartime diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during World War II. Long hidden, the diary was written by Lucien Dreyfus, a native of Alsacewho was a teacher at the most prestigious high school in Strasbourg, an editor of the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • "A" Force

    The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War

    “A” Force explores an area of World War II deception history that has often been neglected. While older studies have focused on the D-day deception campaign and Britain’s infamous double-agents, this work explores the origins of Britain’s deception activities to reveal how the British became such masterful deceivers. This is the first work to focus exclusively on "A" Force and the origins of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • "Adrian's Revenge"

    Adrian's Revenge, a quasi-fiction/non fictional tale bathed in a spritual backwash with a protagonist who is haunted throughout the story.Comejoin in on the quest of this modern day hero of a sort that begins inhistoric Spain as its Kings and Queens send braveexplorers or not tothe foreign shores of the Americasto search out the new worldas he searches for answers to questions that have driven him ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • "Adventure Travel" A New Partnership

    The Royal Princess

    "ADVENTURE TRAVEL" - A NEW PARTNERSHIP The Royal Princess is a return to the author's "Adventure Travel" series, now the 6th. It is based on real travel but made fiction. Professor Mike Gaherty and Assistant Expedition Leader Amy Carrier, long time friends and collegues and some time lovers, reconnect in a new venture for AT - a Partnership with Princess Lines. AT in effect will add to the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • "Aid and Comfort"

    Jane Fonda in North Vietnam

    Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Instead, she has made millions, been the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "All Governments Lie"

    The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone

    Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present need for dissenting voices.In the world of Washington political journalism, notorious for trading ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "All Labor Has Dignity"

    Series Book 5 - King Legacy
    An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justiceCovering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "All the Missiles Work": Technological Dislocations and Military Innovation - Case Study in U.S. Air Force Air-to-Air Armament, Post-World War II through Rolling Thunder - Vietnam, Guns on Planes

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this excellent book by the U.S. Air Force examines the role of technology in military innovation, with a case study of the false faith of the military in air-to-air missiles and the subsequent installation of an external cannon gun on the F-4 Phantom jet aircraft. Some subjects covered include Schriever, Eisenhower, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "All the Real Indians Died Off"

    And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

    Series Book 5 - Myths Made in America
    Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • "America for Americans!"

    The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon

    The following document is a transcript of a sermon delivered by John Philip Newman, an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It celebrates the nation and espouses the belief of American exceptionalism, as can be seen by the following passage: "They not only declared the ultimate truth of human rights, but they exhausted the right of revolution. They created a constitution founded upon ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "America for Americans!"

    The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon

    The following document is a transcript of a sermon delivered by John Philip Newman, an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It celebrates the nation and espouses the belief of American exceptionalism, as can be seen by the following passage: "They not only declared the ultimate truth of human rights, but they exhausted the right of revolution. They created a constitution founded upon ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus