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Originally published in 1962, this book tells the flamboyant story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco's infamous era of graft.

Forts and Forays is a rare account of frontier soldiering in the pre-Civil War Southwest by an enlisted man.

HARRY SYMES LEHR was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent.

An intimate revealing picture of a great figure that stands out clearly against the background of a young and vibrant America.

First published in 1957, this second edition of the analysis of the generalship of Ulysses S.

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.

Author Glenn Tucker's interest in research on the War of 1812 was piqued whilst he was employed as a newspaperman in Washington, D.

Author Glenn Tucker's interest in research on the War of 1812 was piqued whilst he was employed as a newspaperman in Washington, D.

The Battle of the Wilderness began Lt.

She was called "e;The Florence Nightingale of America.

Presbyterian minister Nicholas A.

Originally published in 1963, Rebel Victory at Vicksburg by renowned American Civil War and World War II historian Edwin C.

A DEFINITIVE BUT HIGHLY EXCITING LIFE OF ONE OF THE MOST COLORFUL AND HITHERTO NEGLECTED FIGURES IN AMERICAN HISTORYDavid Dixon Porter (1813-1891) was a U.

A personal account of World War I events, as told from the perspective of David Lloyd George, former Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908-1915), Minister of Munitions (1915-1916), Secretary of State of War (1916) and, towards war end, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916-1922).

This is Volume II of II comprising the authorized translation of Prince Max of Baden's German memoirs published in 1927 (original German title: Erinnerungen und Dokumente).

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LOVE AND WARCabot Murray first came to Williamsburg, Virginia, in the tense autumn of 1860.

As award-winning popular culture author, scholar, and fellow Virginia native Dr.

THE BLUEGRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY was the only part of the slaveholding South that Abraham Lincoln knew intimately.

Elizabeth Avery Meriwether was the author of many books, giving accurate and vivid descriptions of historical incidents of importance in the South.

During the afternoon of May 18, 1926, and auburn-haired woman whose name was virtually an American household word went for a swim in the Pacific.

THIS is the story of the men who sought for gold, from California to the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains.

IN THE SUMMER OF 1849 there was in California one J.

A Puritan Outpost by Herbert C.

While incarcerated in the Atlanta federal penitentiary in 1924 for larceny, conspiracy and some 100 violations of the Prohibition Act, Gaston B.

When a Chicago financier was invited in the early Eighties to invest his money in the infant iron mining and lumber industries of Iron County of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, he sniffed:-"e;Iron County?

Exceptionally rare and valued by book collectors, Otto A.

"e;WHEN the idea of compiling an historical account of the operations of the American forces in the Philippine Islands was conceived, the war clouds had nearly all disappeared from the horizon, and all that remained were those caused by the prospect of trouble with the insurgents, which, however, were not supposed to be serious.

First published in the year 1900, American journalist, naval historian and author John R.

First published in 1954, this is a true story of love and adventure which traces the history of Dawson City through the eyes of a young schoolteacher from Canada and the penniless Yukon miner she married.

THE FABULOUS STORY OF THE INVENTION OF THE TELEPHONE!

This study of the Napoleonic Exiles in America, which was first published in 1905, centers around "e;the unfortunate colonial enterprise called Champ d'Asile on the banks of the Trinity River in Texas.

The Poppy is a symbol of British militarism, not a badge of peace.

Defence of Europe by Sikh Soldiers in the World Wars is a fascinating history of the much-forgotten Sikh contribution to the two World Wars.

The second half of a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II, and what went wrong.

This book explores the military events and diplomatic games in the later years of the Second World War through which Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans resistance movement gained the support of the Allies and, eventually, control over Yugoslavia itself.

The early battles of the First World War were open, mobile affairs whose tactics had long been familiar to professional soldiers.

'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.

This text analyzes what really happened in Glasgow in the tumultuous years following World War I.

Four months pregnant, Vera Wohlauf, wife of a serving SS officer, took sadistic pleasure in rounding up victims for Treblinka.

Few humans in history have been satirized as remorselessly as Adolf Hitler.

In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin.

'No one can deny Paul Roland is a complete master of his subject.

A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met.