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There are few first-person accounts of the Riga Ghetto. There is 'good' reason for this: few survived. The Nazis and their just as brutal Latvian allies saw to that. Most of the Jews were rounded up, taken to the outskirts of the city, forced to the edge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996439022Author Robert HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Robert HellerPublisher Robert HellerWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Sir Walter Raleigh's many biographers have given little attention to his relationship with his son Wat (Walter). Yet Raleigh's bond with his son was perhaps the most enduring commitment of his restless life, and his attempts to aid the increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999349700Author Richard GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Susan KaplanPublisher Susan KaplanWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

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From 1861-1865, the American Civil War raged at sea as well as on land and saw the use of numerous technological innovations, chief among them the ironclad warship. While various Civil War biographical directories exist, none have been devoted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998037905Author Robin McPhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Gems of History Publishing, LLCPublisher Gems of History Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996445436Author William TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint William D. TurnerPublisher William D. TurnerWeight(grams) 499g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991833603Author Mary Marvin McLeodFormat PaperbackImprint Maple Grove BooksPublisher Maple Grove BooksWeight(grams) 862g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997810905Author Louis E GrivettiFormat PaperbackImprint Bowles Hall FoundationPublisher Bowles Hall FoundationWeight(grams) 277g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979146152Author Elvis SlaughterFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Slaughter & AssociatesPublisher Slaughter & AssociatesWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978800925Author Charles MorrisFormat PaperbackImprint Black Duck Inc.Publisher Black Duck Inc.Weight(grams) 835g

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Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pierre Rey...

Steiner describes Lincoln's legal education, the economics of the law office, and the changes in the practice of law that Lincoln himself experienced as the nation became an industrial, capitalist society. Abraham Lincoln embraced a professional ideal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865346857Author F StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 426g

Israel Salanter was one of the most original and influential Jewish leaders and thinkers of Eastern European Jewry in the modern period. One of Salanter's most striking innovations was the transformation of the issue of ethics from the domain of theology...

Pierce M. B. Young: The Warwick of the South, published in 1964, is an account of a major figure in Reconstruction-era Georgia. The youngest major general in the Confederate Army, he was the first Georgian to be allowed to take a seat in Congress after...

Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901 - 75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet here the truth is stranger than fiction. The result of a thirty-five-year journey that started with a...

Born in rural Winn Parish, Louisiana, Huey P. Long grew up to become the most influential governor the state of Louisiana has ever known. Indeed, he commanded a power base that ultimately made him virtual dictator of his home state. The story of Long's...

Cutting across the Bourbon Era, the Populist Revolt, and the Progressive Movement, Hoke Smith's career gave expression to the Southern politics of his generation. In Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South, Dewey Grantham examines in detail the...

An absorbing look at the daily lives of rural Jews in eighteenth and nineteenth century Germany. Includes over 75 black and white illustrations, a guide for researchers, maps, and a bibliography.Reviews"While many books describe daily life in Eastern...

No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic "The Everglades: River of Grass" had become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088090985Author Dianne L DuranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 145g

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Starting with William Blake's lost painting The Ancient Britons, this book shows how the visionary artist and poet reworked the Matter of Britain - the corpus of legends presenting an alternative history of Britain - into his own mythology. He thus adds...

J. Mason Brewer, Folklorist and Scholar: His Texas Writings, is a collection of the writings of famed African American teacher and scholar. These works ere published over a lengthy period of time, early 1920s to mid-century.Book InformationISBN...

In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called his ""spiritual and intellectual father."" Dean of the Howard University School of...

In Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, Farrell analyzes the career of "political parson" Thomas Drew (1800-70), creator of one of the largest Church of Ireland congregations on the island and leading figure in the Loyal Orange Order. Farrell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999306031Author Cathy HelmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Katzenhaus BooksPublisher Katzenhaus BooksWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998959351Author Eugene HeimlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Miriam B. HeimlerPublisher Miriam B. HeimlerWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997649635Author Bill HerringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint William P. HerringtonPublisher William P. HerringtonWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996699433Author John W CirignaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 726Imprint Cirignani Enterprises Inc.Publisher Cirignani Enterprises Inc.Weight(grams)...

Okemah, Oklahoma, where Woody Guthrie once lived and wrote songs, was fighting for its existence in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the oil boom ended, cotton fell to ten cents a pound, and Prohibition was in force. Yet this grim scenario frames Robert...

His 20th collection of poetry, Back Room at the Philosophers' Club evidences Buckley's continued and rightfully-earned place in American letters.Book InformationISBN 9781622880690Author Christopher BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stephen F...

This detailed biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825) was the son of an impoverished Breton...

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) rose from humble origins in Iowa to become one of the most famous and most photographed people in the world. He became a leading scout during the American Indian Wars, winner of the Congressional Medal...