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Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Trapped in Tokyo during the war and forced to broadcast on Japanese radio, Toguri nonetheless refused to...

Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway. Her first conscious recollection of life goes back to 1942, when as a young child she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War II, to avoid annihilation. Germany had invaded Norway...

This autobiography tells the story of an indefatigable spirit who survived the Second World War, a doomed marriage, the murder of her father, rape, and the almost endless consternation of family problems. Author Dr. Nina Murray was born in St...

Captain Daniel Drayton is a relatively unknown figure of American history who lived the life of an Atlantic coastal trader and abolitionist. He is memorable for his bravery in attempting to transport seventy-seven fugitive slaves to the North onboard the...

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature before being elected to Congress several times and...

Connecting the classical world and the Renaissance, the Middle Ages stand alone as a remarkable period for religion, politics, science and art. This biographical dictionary provides insight into the men and women great and small who distinguished this...

During the 1885 to 1924 immigration period of sugar plantation laborers from Japan to Hawaii, more than 200,000 Japanese, mostly single men, made the long journey by ship to Hawaii. As it became apparent that they would never return to Japan, many of the...

Almost unknown when in 1945 he purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its famous race, the Indianapolis 500, Tony Hulman soon became a household name in auto racing circles. He is credited with not only saving the Indianapolis Motor Speedway -...

He was one of the most embattled heads of state in American history. Charged with building a new nation while waging a war for its very independence, he accepted his responsibilities reluctantly but carried them out with a fierce dedication to his ideals...

Is there anything new to be read about Jack the Ripper, whose identity has been sought by countless "Ripperologists" for more than 120 years? This book answers an emphatic "yes!" Drawing on recently discovered sources, the author argues that the Ripper's...

Major General George Owen Squier was a remarkable man. During the 1920s and 30s, he was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563680731Author Albert BallinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This volume collects together lectures by distinguished scholars. Julia Smith examines medieval religious relics, focusing on what they actually comprised and asking how these paltry items came to be so highly valued. Gruffydd Aled Williams takes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395929742Author Charles Bracelen FloodFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307744128Author Debby ApplegateFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 561gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497534Author Alice ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be descended from the people who created the ultraracist apartheid system in South Africa. Illuminating its turbulent history through the lives of her female ancestors, it is a history...

Louis Lowy (1920-1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust. During the last months of his life, however, he recorded an oral narrative that explores his activities during the Holocaust as the...

Few Holocaust survivors have gained the recognition and honour as Elie Wiesel has as an author, journalist and lecturer. In this latest biography Ellen Stern chronicles the remarkable life of Elie Wiesel.Book InformationISBN 9780827606166Author Ellen...

Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983818557Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 175g

Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry - an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.Goodnight's story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this brief, authoritative account that considers the role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385502900Author Garry WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Image BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061337604Author Barbara LeamingFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 205mm...

Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Century incorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, and in this new edition from the Library of...

At the height of his fame as a composer, Edward Elgar publicly admitted that his success was owing to the influence of his mother. Copiously illustrated, this is the story of thatinspirational mother, Ann Greening, who gave her son love, security and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897476796Author Lisa BirnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simply Read BooksPublisher Simply Read BooksWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197615Author Mar�a Bel�n Rabad�n VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984822246Author Kreis BeallFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345478009Author Daniel Mark EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874224221Author Candace A. WellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950354580Author Jan BrokkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 499g

"Lucid and comprehensive, Founding Federalist brings to light for a modern audience one of the most important of the constitutional framers." - DAVID FRUM. In Founding Federalist, Michael C. Toth provides an in-depth look at the life and work...

Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons--Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and...

Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed...

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, a rigorously researched, "funny and smart" (Jon Stewart) book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries-reading about the...

This study is a reconsideration of Jan Hus, a late medieval Bohemian priest who was burned at the stake six hundred years ago. His death sparked a social revolution. This book considers his role as a priest and reformer in Prague, his martyrdom in...

This book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754-1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and partially mute from a young age, Lord Seaforth went on to become a proprietor of a large...

In this book, seven distinguished scholars and writers discuss seven leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs. Frank H. Underhill, historian, describes the tragic career of Edward Blake, one of the ablest men who ever entered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871692023Author Robert Francis JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical...