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Pawn of the U.S. government. Right-hand man to the mob. Iron-fisted dictator. For decades, public understanding of the pre-Revolutionary Cuban dictator ""Fulgencio Batista"" has been limited to these stereotypes. While on some level...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788452734Author William W BettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 767g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806308630Author Lorenzo SabineFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979304910Author John, EhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Press 53 Carolina Classics EditionsPublisher Press 53 Carolina Classics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788450099Author John M PaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 390g

James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the...

Jonathan Bryan (1708-88) rose from the obscurity of the southern frontier to become one of colonial Georgia's richest, most powerful men. Along the way he made such influential friends as George Whitefield and James Oglethorpe. Bryan's contemporaries, in...

Regarded by many automotive historians as the finest and most dispassionate character study of Henry Ford ever written, Henry Ford: An Interpretation has long been out of print and priced out of the reach of many collectors. Published at the height of...

On February 4, 1941, Nanda Herbermann, a German Catholic writer and editor, was arrested by the Gestapo in Munster, Germany. Accused of collaboration with the Catholic movement, Herbermann was deported to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Women in July...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254073Author Jacob H DornFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 630g

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806514390Author General George Armstrong CusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Citadel PressWeight(grams) 980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806151397Author John GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 268g

This detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism). Students of Native American religion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805097375Author Penny ColmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 290g

This deluxe anniversary volume is the first complete edition to appear in forty years. "For about 51 weeks a year the average old-time cowboy could be classified as a hard working, fairly sober, and usually conscientious individual. During the 52nd...

Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872 at age seventeen to work on a ranch. He lived the rest of his life in the southwestern United States, and at age seventy-nine he began writing articles for Ranch Romances about the Old West he knew and...

This is a pioneering study of the nineteenth century Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of the most controversial and influential Hasidic leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850). The dramatic episodes of his life-including his...

First published in 1889, H. H. McConnell's Five Years a Cavalryman remains one of the best accounts of what it was like to be an ordinary cavalryman on the post-Civil War frontier. Posted for five years (1866-1871) with the Sixth U.S. Cavalry at Fort...

Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Narcissa grew up in western New York State, her values and attitudes carefully shaped by her mother. Very much a child of the Second Great...

Leon Metz has pieced together, for the first time, all that is known of John Selman, a shadowy figure in Texas and New Mexico during the unsettled, often violent, period after the Civil War. Unlike many of his comrades--including the most notorious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797805743Author Gertrude Mueller Von DehamFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Chilli Pepper ConsultingPublisher Chilli Pepper ConsultingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788458934Author Jim PiecuchFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788418037Author Stephen E HallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408203Author Mary Ann RomanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408166Author Melissa Wye GeraciFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759696242Author Gail HopkeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 509g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759685352Author Susan G. SchoenenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759642539Author Bruno W. LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759641297Author Charles SeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 171g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759630147Author Mary Joe ClendeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759628359Author Julius TomsitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 239g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759617209Author Constantin ZotisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759606333Author Billie HobartFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 126g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759604421Author Sol PanushFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 865g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759603035Author Mathew V. HarwichFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 227g

In what respects was Alexander 'Great'? It is an exciting task for the historian to answer that question, and in this fascinating study Nicholas Hammond undertakes it with enthusiasm. His thorough acquaintance with the ancient sources enables him to...

Taylor Peirce was 40 years old when he left his wife and family to enlist in the 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He served for three long years and saw action in both theaters of the Civil War - ranging thousands of miles from the siege of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648836070Author Helen GoltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Atlas ProductionsPublisher Atlas ProductionsWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648457510Author Kathy MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Matthew StephenPublisher Matthew StephenWeight(grams) 390g