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24341) The Return from Troy
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Traumatized by the slaughter that his ingenuity unleashed upon the people of Troy, Odysseus believes himself unworthy of returning home. Embarking on an epic journey to the ends of the world and deep into the shadows of his own heart, Odysseus turns at last for Ithaca, where his wife and son await, besieged by rivals who believe - and wish - him dead. 1 - A PRINCE OF TROY2 - THE WAR AT TROY3 - THE SPOILS OF TROY4 - THE RETURN FROM TROY
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Chasing Villa is a record of events in Western history, military history, the Mexican Revolution, and the last of the horse cavalry. Following its first publication in 1934, U.S. Army Colonel Frank Tompkins' account of the Punitive Expedition by a participant became widely considered to be one of the most comprehensive.
The book tells the story of the Columbus Raid and Pershing's Expedition into Mexico. On March 9, 1916 the border town of Columbus,...
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This is the comprehensive, standardized dictionary of military and associated terminology compiled and used by the Department of Defense. Divided into two sections, The Dictionary of Military Terms contains the terms and definitions approved for Department of Defense (DOD) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) use as well as a complete listing of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms. These military and associated terms, together with...
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A gripping account of the Royal Air Force's daring exploits during the heroic evacuation of Allied troops from France in World War II.
"Where is the RAF?" was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air forces were there, as Norman Franks proves, detailing the outstanding...
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To many observers in the West, events in Iran leading up to the revolution in 1979 took a mystifying and seemingly irrational course. In this National Security Essay, Jack Miklos, a foreign service officer who served in several key assignments in Iran, discusses the Iranian Revolution. He looks at theories of social modernization as applied to the history and culture of Iran, and then focuses in depth on the effects of land reform and the pervasive...
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Whites in South Africa, particularly the Afrikaners, had enjoyed racist minority rule with institutionalised racism and apartheid since 1948. Now the winds of change, the actual ushering in of the new democratic order in 1994, and the election of the first ever black government culminated in fear and loss of political privilege. But one Afrikaner leader, Fanie Bosman, was on a mission to protect the Afrikaner legacy. Together with other extremist...
24347) Slavery and Catholicism
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In this detailed and well researched book, Richard Roscoe Miller describes and discusses the Catholic Church's involvement in the American Slave Trade. The Catholic Church had a major presence in slavery in the New World. According to Richard Miller, Catholic countries were "the prime movers in the revival of slavery in the Old World and the introduction of it into the New World."
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First published in 1932 and revised in 1956 by Everett J. Edwards' daughter Jeannette Edwards Rattray with a new Foreword, this is a well-researched account on American shore-whaling, with special focus on the small-boat whaling carried on off the eastern end of Long Island from 1640 to 1918-the first and last whaling of this sort done anywhere in America.
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The loss of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 is one of the Civil War's enduring mysteries. In this meticulous study, Alexander Rossino presents a bold new interpretation of the evidence surrounding the orders' creation, distribution, and loss outside Frederick, Maryland, in September 1862.
Rossino makes extensive use of primary sources to explore these subjects and other important questions related to the orders, including why General Lee...
24350) Traitors
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The start of a gripping new crime thriller series introducing Intelligence officer Sophie Racine and featuring ex-SAS officer Aidan Snow! 'Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around!' Stephen Leather Don't miss the first book in the explosive Sophie Racine thriller series!
A TRAITOR WHO CAN'T BE CAUGHT
French Intelligence officer Sophie Racine is tasked with travelling into the heart of a warzone in Ukraine. Her mission is to assassinate...
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Fascinating biography of engineer and inventor of the Steamboat: John Fitch.
"In this narration are sketched the early career of the subject of the biography; his Revolutionary services to the State of New Jersey; his adventures in the wilds of Kentucky and Ohio; his captivity by Indians, and as a British prisoner; his exertions to obtain means to construct a steam-boat; his trials, failures, difficulties in building machinery, and his successful...
24352) Paducah and the Civil War
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Despite Kentucky's aim to keep a neutral position in the Civil War and Paducah's Confederate tendencies, the Union captured the town soon after Confederate troops occupied Columbus. As a result, the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River became permeable entry points for infiltrating farther south and maintaining supply lines deep into Confederate states. That strategic advantage was halted when Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest invaded...
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This work treats with great care and thoroughness the history of the Waldensian emigrants from the high valleys of Piedmont to many and varied settlements in the Americas. The author has been able to fill a lacuna in the history of American churches by ransacking the colonial and regional records of several states and by using much genealogical material garnered in part from descendants of the Italian settlers. An appendix contains a necessarily incomplete...
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In 1922, war between Turkey and Britain was but hours away. A resistance army led by Mustafa Kemal had swept the Greeks from Anatolia and was now ready to march north to Constantinople and liberate the capital. But in its way stood a small British garrison at the Dardanelles.
This affectionate account of the British Army at Chanak was written by a peripatetic Englishman, Percival James Bothwell, under the pseudonym 'Z'. He was branch secretary of...
24356) Inside Area 51
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Deep in the Nevada desert lies Area 51, a highly classified United States Air Force facility.
This secretive location has led to many conspiracy theories. Examination of those theories, the location's history, and more will keep readers engaged as they discover the mysteries of Area 51.
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Robert F. Kennedy: The Brother Within, first published in 1962, is a lively account of the life and career of the younger brother of John F. Kennedy. Robert, or "RFK," part of the politically important Kennedy family of Massachusetts, served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 (under his brother and then Lyndon Johnson); he was a dedicated supporter of civil rights for African-Americans and also fought the corruption prevalent in organized...
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The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity. Their fate is rarely described. That is why Adelbert Holl's harrowing and vivid memoir of his seven-year ordeal as a prisoner in the Soviet camps...
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Minding our own business, while leaving other peoples to mind theirs, was the basis of the United States' successful foreign policy from 1815 to 1910. Best described in the works of John Quincy Adams and carried out by his successors throughout the nineteenth century, this is the foreign policy by which America grew prosperous and in peace. This policy also remains the commonsense philosophy of most Americans today.
America's Rise and Fall among Nations...
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