Eyewitness to World War II brings you closer than ever before to the greatest challenge a generation of Americans had ever faced. The unforgettable story of World War II is told through the words of those who lived it–both on the battlefield and the home front–creating a dramatic tapestry of the wartime experience. Personal writings and recollections of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Patton, as well as letters composed by soldiers at battle and diaries of women serving in the military at [...]
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Best Little Stories from the Civil War, 2E: More than 100 true stories
“This fascinating book will make the Civil War come alive with thoughts and feelings of real people.” The Midwest Book Review The Civil WAR You Never Knew… Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you haven’t heard before. In Best Little Stories from the Civil War, soldiers describe their first experiences in battle, women observe the advances and retreats of armies, spies recount their methods, and leadersSale Price: Read More
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War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Studies in Environment and History)
While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to believe that war and control of nature are separate, there are many more similarities than most people might suspect. Tracing the history of chemical warfare and pest control, Edmund Russell shows how war and control of nature coevolved. Ideologically, institutionally, and technologically, the paths of chemical warfare and pest control intersected repeatedly in the twentieth century. War and Nature helps us to understand the impact of warSale Price: Read More
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Letters from a War Bird: The World War I Correspondence of Elliot White Springs
Ranked among the top five American flying aces of World War I, Elliot White Springs (1896-1959) was credited with shooting down twelve enemy aircraft during his tour in France. In the postwar years, he was a prolific writer whose nine books include War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator, a classic air combat narrative. After his father’s death in 1931, Springs inherited Springs Mills and quickly became one of South Carolina’s most innovative and successful textile mill owners. Edited by [...]
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Voices from the Korean War: Personal Accounts of Those Who Served
Voices from the Korean War presents a collection of first-person accounts of those who served in the Korean War. The Korean War is often dubbed the “Forgotten War,” although more than 36,000 soldiers died in this three-year conflict. In Voices from the Korean War, author Douglas Rice makes certain the men who served are not forgotten as he shares first-person accounts from seventy-nine soldiers who fought in the war from June of 1950 through July of 1953. Voices from the [...]
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The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
What most of us don’t know about our presidents could fill a book—and this just happens to be that book! From the archives of The History Channel® comes a treasure trove of quirky presidential history that will truly astonish, bewilder, and stupefy. Like Abraham Lincoln’s duel or Jimmy Carter’s UFO sighting . . . and let’s not forget about the president who went skinny-dipping in the Potomac every day! That’s the kind of presidential history you’ll find in The Greatest [...]
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The War for Korea, 1950-1951: They Came from the North (Modern War Studies)
In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning, one of our most distinguished military historians argued that the conflict on the Korean peninsula in the middle of the twentieth century was first and foremost a war between Koreans that began in 1948. In the second volume of a monumental trilogy, Allan R. Millett now shifts his focus to the twelve-month period from North Korea’s invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, through the end of June 1951–the most [...]
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A Zombie’s History of the United States: From the Massacre at Plymouth Rock to the CIA’s Secret War on the Undead
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.”Howard ZinnShedding light on 500 years of suppression, this shocking exposé reveals the pivotal role in American history played by its most invisible minorityzombies.From colonization and revolution to World Wars and global hegemony, A Zombie’s History of the United States tells the powerful and moving stories of this country’s living-deadSale Price: Read More
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Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (Oxford History of the United States)
In Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era’s many memorable figures and explore the “culture wars” between liberals and conservatives that appeared to split the country in two. PattersonSale Price: Read More
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before 1929, [...]
