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Finalist for the 1971 National Book Award In early 1968, Communist forces in Vietnam launched a surprise offensive that targeted nearly every city, town, and major military base throughout South Vietnam. For several hours, the U.S. embassy in Saigon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924219Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802360929Author Doreen JarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward PublishingWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788422454Author Donald G ShometteFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West,...

Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610166492Author Justin RaimondoFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809072354Author Thomas BenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015665Author Lynn DumenilFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." He wasn't speaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966816037Author James PerloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Refuge BooksPublisher Refuge BooksWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980309Author Tony HorwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm *...

It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345476807Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House AustraliaPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for todayThe cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet...

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words "Silence = Death." The graphic and the slogan still resonate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080094Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147248Author Michael DobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

This fresh look at Hollywood's "Queen of Screwball," Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight mishap that took her life on the side of a Nevada mountain in 1942. It also provides a day-by-day account...

Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as 'experience'. Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over time and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593512302Author Daniel James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681790510Author West C GilbreathFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Wild Horse PressPublisher Wild Horse PressWeight(grams) 957gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570984105Author Martin S. QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)...

In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or...

This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since...

If you were beginning to believe that "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald did kill President Kennedy all by himself, this could be the book to convince you, that there was indeed a conspiracy and a cover-up. The contributors worked independently at...

Discover the untold story of the vital role the Irish played in the American Revolution.George Washington changed the world and saved democracy by defeating the British during the American War of Independence. The Irish role in the American Revolution,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476752969Author Karl RoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In...

The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation "A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis."-James Oakes, New York Review of Books A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans...

In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind- the distortions of reality- that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still...

After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first...

Russell Shorto's work has been praised as "first-rate intellectual history" (Wall Street Journal), "literary alchemy" (Chicago Tribune) and simply "astonishing" (New York Times). In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the...

In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in...

The second day's fighting at Gettysburg - the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2nd July 1863 - was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle. In this definitive account, Harry Pfanz introduces the...

Fiorello La Guardia was one of the twentieth century's most colourful politicians - on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537253Author Bruce CattonFormat HardbackPage Count 1296Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 822gDimensions(mm)...

Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand...