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Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center (Official Guidebook)

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Beckon Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 129946

ISBN: 1935442074

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Fontainebleau A Guide To The Visit

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Les Editions DArt A P: January 1987

Seller ID: 131691

ISBN: B0016A694O

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A House Divided: A Treasury of the Civil War Illustrated with Photographs

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Hallmark: January 1968

Seller ID: 132368

ISBN: B000VBRTVG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Not Out of Africa: how Afrocentrism became an excuse to teach myth as history

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Basicbooks: January 1996

Seller ID: 133544

ISBN: B002NIHW0S

Condition: Used - Good

The Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 1: The Opening Battles / Two Years of Grim War

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Blue & Grey Press: January 1997

Seller ID: 133603

ISBN: 1555211747

Condition: Used - Good

Volume 1. "The Photographic History of the Civil War "was first published in 1911 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the great conflict. Extremely popular then, it has become a rare book. Here, in five double volumes, is the complete and unabridged original edition, text and photographs carefully reproduced in the original format and full size. The thousands of photographs contained within are remarkable in their immediacy, spontaneity, and authenticity. They demonstrate the power of the camera as well as the importance of the photographer. This series is a unique record of ...
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Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Konemann: April 1998

Seller ID: 133851

ISBN: 3895089133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield

By: Ackerman, Kenneth D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: April 2004

Seller ID: 134213

ISBN: 0786713968

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Capitol Hill veteran Kenneth Ackerman re-creates an American political landscape where fierce battles for power unfolded against a chivalrous code of honor in a country struggling to emerge from the long shadow of the Civil War. James Garfield's 1880 dark horse campaign after the longest-ever Republican nominating convention, his victory in the closest-ever popular vote for president, his struggle against bitterly feuding factions once elected, and the public's response to his assassination is the most dramatic presidential odyssey of the Gilded Age-and among the most momentous in our nation's...
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1998

Seller ID: 127713

ISBN: 068485628X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive "D-Day" and "Citizen Soldiers," about which the great Civil War historian James McPherson wrote, If there is a better book about the experience of GIs who fought in Europe during World War II, I have not read it. "Citizen Soldiers"...
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1998

Seller ID: 131944

ISBN: 0684848015

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day." Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.
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The Age of Jackson

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Triangle Books: January 1950

Seller ID: 133126

ISBN: B00DL6NM4G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Century

By: Bernard, Bruce

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Phaidon Press: September 1999

Seller ID: 133549

ISBN: 0714838489

Condition: Used - Good

Unlike any other book you may encounter, the sheer physical presence of "Century" is unique. With 1,120 pages and 1,072 images, this monster volume offers an informative, nostalgic, intimate and monumental insight into the last 100 years."Century" is a history of the twentieth century told in photographs. More than any other, the last century was one of unforeseeable advances, discoveries and victories as well as unanticipated atrocities and suffering, and it was the first century to have been entirely documented by the camera. Thus the chronological sequence of images not only takes us on ...
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Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989

By: Beschloss, Michael R.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 2007

Seller ID: 131006

ISBN: 0684857057

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From the acclaimed bestselling author of "The Conquerors"Michael Beschloss has brought us a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous President dramatically changed the future of the United States.With surprising new sources and a dazzling command of history and human character, Beschloss brings to life these flawed, complex men -- and their wives, families, friends and foes. Never have we had a more intimate, behind-the-scenes view of Presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives.You will be in the room with the pr...
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front (Modern War Studies (Paperback))

By: Bidermann, Gottlob Herbert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas: June 2000

Seller ID: 131624

ISBN: 0700611223

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures the sights, sounds, and smells of the war as it vividly portrays an army marching on the road to ruin. A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In Deadly Combat conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English. It offers a ground soldier's perspective on life and death...
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Hard Tack and Coffee: Soldier's Life in the Civil War

By: Billings, John D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: JG Press: February 2007

Seller ID: 129525

ISBN: 1572154764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Four Hours in My Lai

By: Bilton, Michael,Sim, Kevin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: March 1992

Seller ID: 130819

ISBN: 0670842966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Vietnam War: Illustrated History of the Conflict in Southeast Asia

By: Bonds, Ray

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crown: March 1983

Seller ID: 133601

ISBN: 0517536129

Condition: Used - Good

The Discoverers: Volumes I and II Deluxe Illustrated Set with Slipcase

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc: September 1991

Seller ID: 133607

ISBN: 0810932075

Condition: Used - Good

A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends & Folklore

By: Botkin, B.A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Promontory Press: March 2006

Seller ID: 132380

ISBN: 0883940493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This book contains a rich sampling of Civil War storytelling of all types -- personal narratives, anecdotes, hero tales, jests, strange tales, and fables. Culled from a wide variety of contemporary sources -- letters, diaries, newspapers, periodicals, and pamphlets -- readers will discover how the people of the times speak to us in voices that are still fresh and meaningful to us today. Voices are those of Abe Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, of slaves, scouts, and spies of the boys in blue and gray, and the girls they left behind, of doctors, chaplains, nurses, correspondents, and a host of others....
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

By: Bowden, Mark

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Grove Press: April 2010

Seller ID: 134428

ISBN: 080214473X

Condition: Used - Good

Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century

By: Brown, Anthony Cave

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Marc Janffe imprint): November 1994

Seller ID: 129673

ISBN: 039563119X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Brown tells the extraordinary stories of Kim Philby, a renowned double agent, and his father and mentor, Harry St. John Bridger Philby, who played a key role in establishing the modern Middle East. In this dual biography, the author includes interviews, private papers of both St. John and Kim Philby, and previously unreleased photographs and KGB memoranda--providing an intriguing account of espionage.
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (The Hinges of History)

By: Cahill, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: July 2004

Seller ID: 130252

ISBN: 0385495544

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore " the hinges of history, " Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining-- and historically unassailable-- journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation-- yet the...
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The Coming Fury

By: Catton, Bruce

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: January 1967

Seller ID: 129522

ISBN: B000KAFMJ4

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Clark, Christopher

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: March 2014

Seller ID: 129969

ISBN: 0061146668

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of...
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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created ModernAmerica

By: Cohen, Adam

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: January 2009

Seller ID: 131005

ISBN: 159420196X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A revealing account of the critical first days of FDR's presidency, during the worst moments of the Great Depression, when he and his inner circle launched the New Deal and presided over the birth of modern America "Nothing to Fear" brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history?the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle swept away the old order and reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, thousands of banks had gone under following the Crash of 1929, a quarter of American workers ...
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Is Paris Burning

By: Collins, Larry;Lapierre Dominique

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pocket: January 1966

Seller ID: 131970

ISBN: B07DHZR8RT

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Down Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism

By: Couch, Dick

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: May 2006

Seller ID: 80891

ISBN: 1400081017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In America's battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in the fight--stealthy, effective, professional, and lethal. Here for the first time is a SEAL insider's battle history of these Special Operations warriors in the war on terrorism. "Down range" is what SEALs in Afghanistan and Iraq call their area of operations. In this new mode of warfare, "down range" can refer to anything from tracking roving bands of al-Qaeda on a remote mountain trail in Afghanistan to taking down an armed compound in Tikrit and rousting holdouts from Saddam Husse...
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

By: Crowley, Roger

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hachette Books: August 2006

Seller ID: 129256

ISBN: 1401308503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a precursor to the current jihad between the West and the Middle East.
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The Awakening of American Nationalism: 1815 - 1828

By: Dangerfield, George

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc: October 1994

Seller ID: 134397

ISBN: 0881338230

Condition: Used - Good

The Era of Good Feelings

By: Dangerfield, George

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee: October 1989

Seller ID: 134398

ISBN: 0929587146

Condition: Used - Good

Here is history as delightful as it is profound. Exploring the period between Jeffersonian democracy and Jacksonian democracy, George Dangerfield describes the personalities and experiences, American and European, which furthered the political transition "from the great dictum that central government is best when it governs least to the great dictum that central government must sometimes intervene strongly on behalf of the weak and the oppressed and the exploited." The book, winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes, throws new and fresh light on an important formative period in American hist...
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Sherman's March

By: Davis, Burke

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: April 1980

Seller ID: 130820

ISBN: 0394507398

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sherman's March is the vivid narrative of General William T. Sherman's devastating sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas in the closing days of the Civil War. Weaving together hundreds of eyewitness stories, Burke Davis graphically brings to life the dramatic experiences of the 65,000 Federal troops who plundered their way through the South and those of the anguished -- and often defiant -- Confederate women and men who sought to protect themselves and their family treasures, usually in vain. Dominating these events is the general himself -- "Uncle Billy" to his troops, the devil incarnate t...
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Category: *History