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By: Garrett, Richard
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A., Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1980
Seller ID: 003312
ISBN: 0442258739
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
During World War II the British Commandos and the United States Rangers brought the art of combined operations and of the sudden, lightning strike upon the enemy to a level of organization never reached in any previous war. But the Commandos and the Rangers were the inheritors of a long tradition; the history of strike forces made up of highly trained, highly professional crack troops is as old as that of war itself.
In "The Raiders" Richard Garrett tell...
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By: Garrison, Webb
Price: $12.95
Publisher: USA, Gramercy: 1998
Seller ID: 013143
ISBN: 0517189267
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Questions are presented in categories that make it easy to test your knowledge. Also included are interesting sidebar articles, lists of little-known facts, anecdotes, and over 50 unusual black-and-white photographs. With a thorough index. [AZ]
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By: George Bull
Price: $19.95
Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1980
Seller ID: 013367
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
By: Gilberto Freyre
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1970
Seller ID: 003110
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
By: Golb, Norman
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall: 1994
Seller ID: 010758
ISBN: 002544395X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
By: Gordon Thomas; Max Morgan Witts
Price: $14.95
Publisher: London, Stein and Day: 1969
Seller ID: 013387
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust jacket with loss upper front corner.
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By: Grabsky, Phil; Rance, Philip
Price: $45.00
Publisher: London, Bbc Pubns: 1997
Seller ID: 013027
ISBN: 0563387254
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
This survey of imperial history via biographical sketches of the most significant emperors is based on the Arts and Entertainment television series.A lively and evocative sketch of Roman imperial history, focused around Julius Caesar, Octavius Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Constantine, and Justinian and based on translations of the best-known Roman historians. [Library Journal]
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Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1925
Seller ID: 006180
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Twenty-four photographic plates, 7 text maps, Lacking large folding color map from rear pocket.
Published originally in 1909, this edition has been practically rewritten and presents Alaska as it was in 1924.
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Minor sun-darkening to the spine. [Alaska Bibliography, 1840; Tourville, 1840]
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Price: $14.95
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America: 1969
Seller ID: 000909
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
By: Gregg, Josiah ; Edited by Max L. Moorhead
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press: 1954
Seller ID: 011820
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
J. Frank Dobie called it 'one of the classics of bedrock Americana.'
Tan buckram with gilt title on a green spine band, facsimile signature on front, also in green. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste-down. Dust Jacket is price-clipped i...
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By: Groom, Winston
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1995
Seller ID: 013138
ISBN: 0871135914
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
This well-written narrative makes a revisionist argument that the Confederacy's desperate offensive against Nashville in the winter of 1864-1865 was more than a manifestation of General John Bell Hood's incompetence. Groom argues that Hood took his Army of Tennessee north because President Jefferson Davis demanded an aggressive military policy to avoid the South's being worn down in stages.
Groom's analysis of Union and Confederate strategies is solid, and his sketches of the principal commanders, including less familiar figure...
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Price: $65.00
Publisher: Key Largo Florida, Ike Publications Inc.: 2003
Seller ID: 008867
ISBN: 0967588510
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Carefully researched and documented.
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By: Hallock Ph.D., Dr. Judith Lee
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Tuscaloosa. AL, University Alabama Press: 2009
Seller ID: 013144
ISBN: 0817355944
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
This sympathetic biography of Bragg gives valuable insight into the workings of the Confederacy in the last two years of its struggle for independence. Along with the military details, the author provides a full accounting of Bragg's fractious relationships with other members of the military, a critical factor in this period for the entire Confederate command.
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By: Halstead, Murat
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Akron, Ohio, The Werner Company: 1896
Seller ID: 013314
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Popular piece on the history of the Cuban nationalist struggle against Spain. This reprint edition was published in the same year as the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, 1898. The tone is of US imperialism through 400 years of history are covered.
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Price: $29.95
Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1957
Seller ID: 013155
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Subjects; Tippu Tip -1905. Slave trade - Africa, East - History - 19th century. Zanzibar - History - To 1890. Al Bu Sa'Id Dynasty. Zanzibar. History. Kings and Rulers. Sub-Saharan African History & Topography
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By: Hargreaves, Dorothy and Bob
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Hargreaves Industrial: 1962
Seller ID: 010978
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Leis from all of the islands are illustrated and described. Brief instruction on making leis are included.
Carefully handled, no flaws to notes.
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By: Henry Steele Commager; Erik Bruun
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Tess Press: 2000
Seller ID: 013441
ISBN: 1579123538
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.
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By: Henry, Robert Selph; Forward by Douglas Southhall Freeman
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Grossett & Dunlap: 1936
Seller ID: 013247
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
In his foreword to the book, the distinguished historian Douglas Southall Freeman praises this as 'the one book with which to begin one's study of the period it covers and the book to which to return when everything else on the subject has been read.'
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By: Hereford, Robert
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho, The Claxon Printers, LTD: 1943
Seller ID: 011781
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Grey cloth with black titles; Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has light shelf handling. First Edition, Second Printing. Illustrated by Lee Conrey and Daniel S. Bishop. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 301 page...
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By: Hilscher, Herbert H. ; Hilscher, Miriam
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1950
Seller ID: 009954
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Mid-century guidebook for the immigrant and tourist to the Alaska territory by a member of the Alaska Development Board. This book tells of the opportunities that are in Alaska and encourages people to live and have business there.
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpage and a stamp. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has age...
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