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  • Operation Barbarossa
    Nigel Askey
    In June 1941 the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa: the attack on the USSR and the largest land invasion in recorded history. The titanic battles that followed led to the greatest loss of life ever experienced in a military campaign. Since the end of WWII there has been intense discourse about the key operational and strategic decisions made by the German and Sovie...
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    40,02 €

  • War in the Company of Medics
    John J. Candelaria
    During the Vietnam War John J. Candelaria served as Executive Officer of the 45th Surgical Hospital. The poems and photographs in this collection reflect the anguish resulting from soldiers wounded and killed in the line of duty. John's tribute poems to the 45th Surgical Hospital are expressions that embrace in words the courage, duty, and valor of those who served with dis...
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    8,84 €

  • My Family History
    Brian Duncan
    The results of family history research carried out by Brian Duncan. This is the second volume in the series, and is about the McKennie branch of the family. The first volume was about The Duncans, and future volumes will be about Dinwiddies, Frends, Brackens & Hirsts, Farringtons and Macleods. ...
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    17,30 €

  • Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
    Samuel FB Morse
    The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, employed the Vatican, Austrian Prince Metternich and his St. Leopold Foundation to infiltrate the United States of America.  Samuel F.B. Morse spent several years in Europe, mostly near Rome, studying the actions and behaviors of the Jesuits, and conferring with dignitaries and others who had intimate knowledge of the Jesuits and their intri...
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    25,55 €

  • March Forward with the Word!
    Andrew V. Ste. Marie / Andrew VSteMarie / Mike Atnip
    In the midst of tall castles, warring pikemen, dreadful plagues, church decay, and the superstition and darkness of sixteenth-century Europe, the Anabaptist revival burst into flames. One of the first leaders was a partying university dropout who met Christ and was transformed into a fiery preacher, confronting and challenging the greatest reformers of the day. He became co-fou...
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    11,80 €

  • The Autobiography of RosaMae Woodward Sterling
    RosaMae Woodward Sterling
    RosaMae Woodward Sterling, b. 1910, tells the story of her life lived in Washington State.  Photographs of farm life in Eastern Washington in the early 1900's, and of relatives of the Pittman, Woodward, and Sterling families, are included. 3 ...
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    41,04 €

  • Tin Can Treason
    Terry Nardone
    Tin Can Treason is a recollection of my combat tour aboard a destroyer, USS Bordelon (DD881), commissioned in 1945. She had a crew of over 350 men on a 30 foot wide and 300 foot long ship. We traveled about 30,000 nautical miles, from Charleston, South Carolina to the Vietnam coast and back. While aboard I wrote in a daily diary and this book is the culmination of many attempts...
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    9,53 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb
    Deborah Leah Steinberg
    This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. These later were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not only my extended nuclear family that experienced and was affected by growing up at this time in history, but a whole generation of other children...
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    13,46 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • The Great Exhibition in Colour
    Heritage Hunter
    This book brings together more than 75 colour illustrations of the Great Exhibition of 1851, produced by several contemporary Victorian artists, for the first time in one volume. The images are reproduced in full colour, making this the most complete visual account of the exhibition available.Originally published across three different volumes, the images in this book give mode...
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    38,96 €

  • Yes Sir, Yes Sir, 3 Bags Full!
    Jerry Hall
    The events that take place in this story are real. It is a personal account of what happened physically and emotionally to a handful of Air Force pilots from spring 1968 through the fall of 1970. Millions of dollars were spent teaching us to kill; not one penny was allocated to teaching us to cope. Therefore, we unknowingly created our own mentality and our own morality that al...
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    12,50 €

  • An Early History of Red Lodge, Montana
    Bruce H Blevins
    An Early History of Red Lodge, Montana is a concise history of this intriguing town. It starts at the beginning with the geological prehistory, goes through ice age humans, Plains Indians, the fur trade era, the founding of the city, the mining boom, and through to modern times. This second and revised edition includes editing updates, improved explanations and additional illus...
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    4,93 €

  • MY FOLK
    James Timothy Connelly
    This is the story of the coming together of families of British and Irish stock, translated from the Old World to the New. The Hazards of ancient English lineage, conjoined with the Tooths of similar English background, joined in the new land of Australia with the Connellys from Ireland. Here, subsequent generations flourished. How much do they owe to their European forebears? ...
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    12,72 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • Retracing Our Roots
    Ashley L. McClellan / Ashley LMcClellan
    Retracing Our Roots gives an in-depth look at family lineage and family relations through extensive research of the Jackson, Mathes and Shade families. It reveals ancestors and introduces descendants through biographical pages, family trees and photographs. ...
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    129,25 €

  • Dalton's Gold
    Peter D Matthews
    Renowned historian, philosopher and author, Dr Peter Matthews, has illuminated the events of the Eureka Stockade like never before. This book is the culmination of three years research after his Grandfather, Francis Dalton, shared this amazing story just before he passed away in 1995. John Thomas Dalton was swindled out of the find of the century by the very forces sent to pro...
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    23,70 €

  • Germanic Equal Arm Brooches of the Migration Period
    Dorothee Bruns
    This work is a study of the much neglected brooch type - the “equal arm brooch”, a highly distinctive form of personal ornament – and the particular execution of an ornamental style that has only so far been found on examples from north-western Germany. The emergence of these brooches spans only the 5th century AD, and while in the beginning they were limited to the region betw...
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    71,77 €

  • The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent
    Stefan Karol Kozlowski
    This book is a contribution to our understanding of the agricultural revolution that took place some 10,000 years ago in southwestern Asia. Kozlowski analyses lithic industries of the ‘Eastern Wing’ of the Greater Mesopotamia, that is the area of the foothills of the Taurus (from the Tigris) and the Zagros all the way to Khuzistan. The author provides a description of every ide...
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    136,29 €

  • When Concord was King!
    Jim Warren
    The beginnings of a wine industry in Eastern Canada are rooted in mystery. Why did imported European vinifera grapes, not indigenous here, prove impossible to grow for more than 300 years? What were our original winemaking grapes and where and when did they originate? Who were our first winemakers and what kinds of wines did they produce? What inspired them to start their winer...
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    14,37 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...
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    37,06 €

  • Canterbury Tales
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer’s magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron, which Chaucer may have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. The tales are told as part ...
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    35,78 €

  • APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
    George Robert Stowe Mead
    Apollonius of Tyana was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. He was roughly a contemporary of Jesus. At the age of 20 Apollonius began a five year silence, after the completion of this term of silence he traveled to Mesopotamia and Iran. After his death his name remained famous among p...
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    17,95 €

  • Cyrus the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history                Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus...
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    20,26 €

  • The Table of Truth
    Jacob M Carter
    The Kennedy assassination is a vital part of our national history, but for those who study it, it becomes something more, something…personal. That personalization of history creates a healthy passion that drives research forward. But it also carries the risk of becoming dangerous if researchers lose sight of the original goal for studying this pivitol event—the truth. ere are ...
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    10,86 €

  • The Face of Crazy Horse
    Cesare Marino / Pietro Abiuso
    First published in J.W. Vaughn's classic, With Crook at the Rosebud more than sixty years ago, the'Crazy Horse' tintype has long been the subject of controversy. Most Indians and non-Indians have denied the existence of any possible photographic portrait of the Lakota mystic warrior, including the tintype. With an open-minded approach, The Face of Crazy Horse looks at the p...
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    19,18 €

  • Did Beatniks Kill John F. Kennedy?
    Rob Johnson
    For forty years, George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman beat his oil barrel drums and improvised songs to the delight of sidewalk audiences in Houston, Galveston, Fort Worth, and San Antonio.  On the morning of November 22, 1963, he was playing at the infamous beatnik nightclub 'The Cellar' in Fort Worth, and his music became part of the soundtrack of the Kennedy assassination.  Rob Johnso...
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    11,87 €

  • Solamente en San Miguel
    Judith Gille
    Solamente en San Miguel: A Literary Celebration Volume III offers a dazzling array of short stories, poetry and personal essays by fifty authors. From tales of a secret tunnel beneath San Miguel, a calamitous train ride through northern Mexico or a humorous nine-year quest to gain Mexican citizenship to poetry and essays about learning to cook Mexican-style, exploring Mexican-A...
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    20,86 €

  • The Axis Forces 4
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Book magazine dedicated to the German, Italian and Japanese armed forces and their allies during WW2.In this issue. The battle of Narva 1944, The japan in war, The Italian Alpine Division Monterosa of RSI. Eastern Volunteer insignia. Heinrich Sonne. Knight Cross Holder. ...
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    12,71 €

  • Terrorist Training Camps in Iran
    NCRI- U.S. Representative Office / NCRI- U.SRepresentative Office
    The book details how  Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps trains foreign fighters in 15 various camps in Iran to export terrorism. The IRGC has created a large directorate within its extraterritorial arm, the Quds Force, in order to expand its training of foreign mercenaries as part of the strategy to step up its meddling abroad in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Afghanistan and el...
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    23,24 €


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