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Books Are Weapons Books have wielded an immense power for good and evil throughout the history of the human race. Here is a thoughtful and probing discussion of sixteen of the most important works of all time which influenced history, economics, culture, civilization, and scientific thought from the Renaissance to the present day. Such widely different, but immensely powerful books as Hitler's Mein Kampf, which foreshadowed the death and destruction...
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Originally published in 1952, Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín Bredi is returning to El Puerto (El Paso) after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro's business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier-shortly after the end of the Civil War-when he was the boy Martin Brady, he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martín...
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Marshal of Sundown, first published in 1937, is a classic tale of the Old West by Jackson Gregory (1882-1943), author of more than 40 western and detective novels. From the dust-jacket: The least likely candidate for marshal of Sundown was Jim Torrance ... a man wanted throughout the Southwest for every crime from bank robbing to murder. And Sundown already had a marshal ... tough Rufe Biggs, owned body and soul by the man responsible for all the...
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Invasion Journal, first published in 1944, is veteran war correspondent Richard Tobin's account of his time in England, aboard several Royal Navy fighting ships, and in France with American G.I.s shortly after the D-Day invasion. Offering interesting insights into English life - the food, morale of the civilians, V-1 bombings - as well as a look at Allied soldiers from its leaders to its soldiers and sailors, Invasion Journal portrays war-time life...
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This history was originally published in 1947 by the Infantry Journal Press. The 409th Infantry Regiment was one of three regiments in the 103rd "Cactus" Infantry division, which arrived in Southern France in Oct. 1944. They fought through the Vosges sector and later into the Rhineland area of South Central Germany. They then moved into Austria where they ended the war in May 1945.
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More than 60 American divisions participated in the defeat of Germany in 1944-45. This is the story of one of the best of them, a division that fought continually from the Normandy beachhead to the banks of the Elbe River in the heart of Germany. Work Horse of the Western Front is as accurate and honest an account as the writer could make it under the circumstances. Waging war is an exacting business undertaken under conditions that make for confusion...
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Dark Valley, first published in 1937 is a classic novel of the old west by Jackson Gregory (1882-1943), author of more than 40 western and detective novels. In Dark Valley, the plot centers on the small town of Aqua Verde and nearby Dark Valley, ruled by members of the Morgan clan, and a plot to end their lawless reign over the region.
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In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or no evidence. Insubstantial speculations-from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles-often provoke fierce backlash, even when, they prove prophetic...
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Based on unpublished letters and diaries, The Viceroy's Daughters is a riveting portrait of three spirited and wilful women who were born at the height of British upper-class wealth and privilege.
The oldest, Irene, never married but pursued her passion for foxes, alcohol, and married men. The middle, Cimmie, was a Labour Party activist turned Fascist. And Baba, the youngest and most beautiful, possessed an appetite for adultery that was as dangerous...
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The author of The Road to Victory delivers "a well-written, easy to read, and concise summary of the options available to Eisenhower and the Allies" (Journal of Military History).
Imagine how many lives would have been saved had the war in Europe finished in December 1944 instead of five months later...David Colley analyzes critical mistakes made by the Allied supreme commander, General Dwight Eisenhower, in the last nine months of the war. He argues...
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During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle of attrition to neutralize the Luftwaffe as a fighting force prior to the cross-channel invasion, planned for a few months later. Officially called...
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Pt. 1. General information. Alaska cruise options ; Preparing for your cruise ; Life aboard a cruise ship ; History of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest ; Natural phenomena ; Wildlife of Alaska ; A walk in a rainforest ; Native culture -- pt. 2. The voyage & the ports. Seattle ; Victoria ; Vancouver & Canadian Rockies ; Canada's inside passage ; Ketchikan ; Pioneer ports: Wrangell & Petersburg ; Juneau & Tracy Arm ; Skagway & the Yukon ; Glacier Bay...
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Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest is a guidebook to the best boomtowns of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Once thriving centers for mining, fishing, logging, and national defense, these abandoned camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Nowadays, these ghost towns are some of the best places to travel to, filled with fun things to do and see. Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know to explore...
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A World War II pictorial history with over 250 rare photos showing the contribution of U.S. forces in northwest Europe from December 1944 to May 1945.
Launched in December 1944, the Nazis' Ardennes offensive, known as the Battle of the Bulge, was one of the most dangerous periods of the war. During six weeks of desperate fighting, more U.S. soldiers were killed, wounded, or reported missing than in any battle in American history.
The Rhine was...
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Questa is a beautiful, independent widow who was forced to bury her dead husband, alone under the blazing desert sun.
Chase Gunner is a chivalrous cowboy who's also heading west for a better life.
Romance sparks when they meet in a caravan of covered, ox-drawn wagons.
They're venturing along The Applegate Trail, which was supposed to be safer than the Oregon Trail.
Yet Questa, Chase, and dozens of families must brave wild animals... mountains... and...
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Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the nascent colony of New Netherland. In the greater Hudson Valley, Dutch newcomers, Native American residents, and enslaved Africans...
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Illustrated with 3 charts, 28 maps and 88 photos. This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during the war, the combination of the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lt. Gen....
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"What goes better together than chocolate and peanut butter? This match made in heaven has delighted young and old alike for decades. In the Midwest, these two delicious ingredients are combined into a sweet treat named after an Ohio tree nut: the buckeye. These little round balls of peanut buttery goodness-rolled and dipped in chocolate, of course-appear on platters at fan tailgates, church potlucks, family gatherings, and on cash register displays....
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