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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
126th NY Infantry at Harpers Ferry — First Confederate Regiment from Santa Rosa to Chickamauga — Long road to Bentonville — Book reviews — complete list of contents and index for Volume One.
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Universitarios y universitarias de diversas disciplinas (salud, tecnología e ingenierías, humanidades, ciencias sociales o básicas) han fijado su mirada en determinadas referencias culturales de la ciudad para invitarnos a reflexionar sobre cómo las gentes que la habitaban en el pasado crearon elementos que han contribuido a nuestro bienestar, pero que, sobre todo, son manifestaciones del empuje personal y colectivo por mejorar sus condiciones...
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The dominant culture of industrial civilization is highly materialistic, holding up Western-style, consumer lifestyles as the path to happiness and fulfilment. But consumer lifestyles are failing to satisfy the human craving for meaning, and they are degrading our planet in ways that are grossly unsustainable and unjust. We desperately need to explore or rediscover less materialistic, 'simpler' ways of living. 'Simple living' refers to ways of life...
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Summary of First Women by Kate Andersen Brower | Includes Analysis Preview: Kate Andersen Brower's First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies examines how women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama have negotiated the personal and political challenges of being married to the president of the United States. The women who have served as first lady in the modern era have been very different. Jackie Kennedy was a style icon; Lady...
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In the seventy years since 1931, various organizations large and small, including several semi-private ones, have issued or re-issued various original 78 rpm recordings from original metal plates. No comprehensive listing of these has ever before appeared; this is the first, and gathers together all the various information of ongoing interest. This is a most important addition to the record-collecting bibliography.
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Once asked to explain how he had sustained himself over so many years of struggle, César Chávez responded: "I don't think I could base my will to struggle on cold economics or some political doctrine. For me, the base must be faith."
In evaluating the life and struggles of César Chávez, one of the most recognized Latino leaders in the United States and the first labor leader to successfully organize and unionize U.S. farm workers, many historians,...
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NAVY SEABEE VETERANS of AMERICA is a non-profit organization of veterans that have served in Naval Construction Force commands, who dedicate and pledge to preserve the fundamental ideals on which our Nation was founded believing in Justice, Freedom and Equality for all.
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Uwe Heins erzählt aus seinem bunten Seemannsleben Er fuhr als Moses und Jungmann auf großen Motorschiffen nach Afrika, Japan, in die Karibik und durch den Panamakanal zur US-Westküste. Später war er als Leichtmatrose und Bestmann auf Kümos zwischen Skandinavien und England unterwegs. Wie der Junge aus einfachen Verhältnissen sich durch den Alltag kämpft und lernt, sein Leben zu bewältigen, erzählt er mit einem Schuss Selbstironie in diesem...
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This book is volume four of eight volumes. It covers mainly the air war. The volume covers the 2nd half of 1915 and starts into 1916. The Edith Cavell incident is truly tragic. To paraphrase the quote from the volume, "It wasn't so much a crime as a blunder." The story of the German battleship "Möwe" is told in detail. She ends up being sunk by British fighters in 1945. The fall of Serbia, Montenegro and Albania is described in great detail. This...
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Esta edición del Proceso de José Rizal recoge los documentos relacionados con el enjuiciamiento y ejecución de este prócer filipino.
En 1896, en Filipinas comenzó una revolución liderada por el Katipunan, un partido abiertamente independentista fundado por Andrés Bonifacio, y a José Rizal se lo acusó de estar involucrado en él.
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro escapó de las autoridades españolas. A Rizal, lo detuvieron y le hicieron un juicio...
12) A Humble Hero
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This book is about Linsen, who was born in a typical farmers family in the southern Yangtze River area in 1900. When he was 5 years old, his father passed away. He had to quit school when he was only 11 to support his family. He inherited a huge amount of debt. Despite drastic regime changes, Japanese invasion, civil war, land reforms, widespread starvation, the upheavals of the Communist and Cultural Revolutions and their dreadful political and economic...
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This ebook is the first in a series of eight books on the First World War, 1914-1918. The first volume was first published in 1916, so halfway during the war. The printed edition has 562 pages. The book is written by several authors, among them Allen L. Churchill, Francis Trevelyan Miller and others.
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My true story of a marriage that lasted seventy-three years and of our family during WWII, train travel to Texas, and the obstacles encountered while there. Abilene, near Camp Berkeley, became our home; and Austin, near Camp Swift, before our soldier left for war in Italy with the Tenth Mountain Division as a frontline combat medic. His Letters Home from Italy, family, love, and reverence gave us hope. War is a paradox of love and hate, birth and...
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Since 1920, the Royal Corps of Signals has provided the British Army's central nervous system, enabling orders to be delivered and information to be exchanged, principally at the higher levels of command. It has been crucial in supporting the vast majority of military land-based operations after the First World War. Its importance is growing because conducting successful operations is becoming increasingly reliant upon being able to operate in a congested...
16) Price of Glory
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The Price of Glory is an autobiography of my twenty-three-plus years in the Army Air Corps and the Air Force. I have tried to show the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of military life as an enlisted man and as an officer.
17) While We're Here
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Anyone who has lived in China has stories to tell. For foreigners and Chinese alike, this is a land that transforms itself every day, with something to write about on every corner. Collected in this anthology are 33 contributions, a mix of narrative non-fiction, fiction and poetry, from the writers' colony the Anthill (theanthill.org). Together, they offer glimpses into this quicksilver country-by turns funny, touching and bizarre. Whether we stay...
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This is volume six of eight volumes. In this book the Western front at the Somme and Verdun plays a major part. The collapse of Romania is covered in detail, so is the entry of The United States into the War. The war at sea continues and is very well described. The part about the Russian Revolution is a most fascinating chapter.
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Saving Private Weinmann picks up where the authors previous book, Reckoning in Normandy ends. It chronicles the relationship between the author and an embittered Normandy veteran, scarred by the brutality of war. The two men develop a symbiotic relationship, in which the author gets a personalized view of the fighting in Europe, and the elderly veteran gains new hope in salvation he never thought possible. The climax comes in an unforgettable description...
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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