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The details of my (and my brother's) birth are unknown. My memories begin in Latvia. DNA tests strongly indicate that we are of Belarusian-Jewish origin, meaning that we might have been born in southeastern Latvia or in Belarus bordering on southern...

"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645583Author Richard SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

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Gandhi's nationalism seems simple and straightforward: he wanted an independent Indian nation-state and freedom from British colonial rule. But in reality his nationalism rested on complex and sophisticated moral philosophy. His Indian state and nation...

Alexandra Kollontai was a key leader of the Russian Socialist movement, the only woman in the early Soviet government, and one of the most famous women in Russian history. She worked tirelessly all her life, as a speaker, writer, and organizer for...

Faced with fascism, communism, and the 1956 Revolution, Csaba Teglas responded with ingenuity and hope. In ""Budapest Exit"", he tells the story of his twenty-year quest for freedom. Teglas rummaged the scrap heap of World War II for...

First printed in 1873, Life Amongst the Modocs is based on Miller's years among the mining towns and Indian camps of northernmost California during the tumultuous 1850s. As a nature writer, he was among the first to capture the fierce power and sublime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307339744Author Sattareh Farman FarmaianFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972511759Author Karen ChristinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Stella Mira BooksPublisher Stella Mira BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316561693Author Rebecca DonnerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

Cochise"" was a name that struck terror in hearts across the Southwest. Yet in the autumn of 1872, Brigadier General Oliver O. Howard and his aid-de-camp, Lieutenant Joseph Alton Sladen, entered Arizona's rocky Dragoon Mountains in search of the...

Why is Constantine a giant? Because he gave Christians freedom of religion. Yet also because he radically and thoroughly changed our society, in particular church-state relations, thereby creating the opportunity for the Christian community to experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894974851Author Irene Ternier GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641699Author Olga LengyelFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Wilhelm II (27 January 1859 - 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was the eldest grandson of the British Queen Victoria and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439178263Author Howard MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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Izrael Zachariah Deutsch was born on March 15, 1934, in Komjata, Czechoslovakia. The second youngest child, Izrael lived a bucolic existence with nine brothers and sisters on a farm, differing from them only in that he was deaf. When he was six, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312564971Author Matthew DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461538239Author Jochem BotmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529510Author Marco PoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684425891Author Karl F FridayFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Capt. John R. Hughes' exploits in tracking down horse thieves led not only to his earning the enmity of the Wild Bunch, the desperados led by Butch Cassidy, but also to his becoming a Texas Ranger. Originally published in 1942 with a new introduction by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982111403Author Edward Wilson-LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book Company

When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook-two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341071Author Joseph AmatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

By definition, a maverick is a "lone dissenter" who "takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates" or "a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas." The word maverick has evolved in the English language from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595166718Author Aleksandra KasubaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894898447Author Daniel Williams HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as ""the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexing"" general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of...

This is the history of Washington Duke and two of his sons, Benjamin Newton Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Although numerous other members of the family play their parts in the story it focuses primarily on the three men who were at the center of the...

Timothy Isaiah ""Longhair Jim"" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at...

New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter.' Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko...