What A Life: How the Vietnam War Affected...
950円 As a young enlisted man, Randy Kington served on the front line with some of the first Marine combat units in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. Kington describes his transformation from boy to man and the training that allowed him to survive nine months of some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War...
Fortress Malta
2,122円 The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the whole of Britain during the fi...
Summoned
1,491円 The stories of six famous women from history, each on a spiritual path. Joan of Arc, Saint Teresa of Avila, Marie Curie, Rachel Carson, Mother Teresa, and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross encourage and empower the women of today to trust their instincts and intuition, the vehicle through which a higher powe...
Ulysses S. Grant
164円 Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. Author's Note-. "This short book is derived from long ones; from pamphlets, speeches, essays, and newspapers; from certain pages of the official records; and from a few personal memories kindly giv...
Homer and His Age
421円 A fantastic look at the life and times of the ancient Greek epic poet Homer by famed anthropologist Andrew Lang.
Repairing Rainbows
1,179円 At thirteen years old, Lynda's life comes to a disastrous halt when her mother and two younger sisters are killed in a plane crash. Her father, overcome by despair, simply continues to exist, in a state devoid of hope. After burying a wife and two young children at the age of 44, the overwhelmin...
Alfred Nobel : Inventor of Dynamite and F...
241円 Alfred Nobel : Inventor of Dynamite and Founder of Nobel Prizes (A Short Biography for Children) Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and other explosives. He used his enormous fortune from 355 patents to institute the Nobel Prizes. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for...
African Queen
777円 Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her f...
La mente di Adolf Hitler
878円 Hitler era molto diverso da come si mostrava. Coabitavano in lui due persone opposte. L’una dolce, sentimentale e indecisa, con scarsa attitudine al comando, l’altra dura, crudele e impositiva, pronta ad andare avanti indipendentemente dai costi. Era il primo Hitler che piangeva copiosamente per ...
Summons of Trumpet
777円 Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war.
April Blood
2,818円 One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1...
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