105円 “The Fiddling Contest” is a true old family story transcribed by Ellen Gray Taylor, who had heard the brave story of Mars Henry in the words of the ex-slave who told it to her and to so many other children. Rendered in the vernacular, this story depicts the great love shown within an extended fam...

402円 Few mysteries of recent times have the power to seize the imagination like that of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy, who flew to Scotland alone and unarmed in the middle of the Second World War in order to broker peace. Arrested ignominiously by the Home Guard - 'Dad's Army' - Hess was imprisoned, al...

150円 Baron Baden-Powell is nowadays remembered best for his work as the founder of the Scouting Movement which has gone on to become a world-wide success; however his initial reputation rested on his military career centred on the Boer War. Colonel Baden-Powell, as he then was, commanded at Mafeking a...

1,350円 'It's a great sight, all the disused trenches, which were ploughed into nothing in the attacks, and the big stretch of 'no-man's land' in which nothing can live and is full of corpses.' As a boy, Alan Lloyd could never have imagined the harsh realities of the war he would one day fight in. In thi...

956円 These are the stories of ordinary German civilians who survived the horrors of war and eventually immigrated to Colorado. For example: "During the night between one and four o'clock the police would drive through the town and pick up men. They would knock on the door and say that the man of the h...

986円 Die Wahrheit über die Jagd auf Osama bin Laden Die Welt kennt nur die Bilder aus dem Lagezentrum des Weißen Hauses: Präsident Barack Obama und sein Stab beobachten am Monitor den Zugriff der Navy Seals. Mit aufgerissenen Augen verfolgt Außenministerin Hillary Clinton das Geschehen. Erschrocken sc...

1,192円 The story of the achievements of the Empire pioneers has been obscured in recent years by the attention given to continual changes in emergent countries. But the origins of the British Empire, the motives, determination and sheer courage of the early settlers, is a story of which any nation would...

898円 Brave women, patriotic men and foolishly daring young children – these were the silent and unseen warriors (denizens) who valiantly fought and resisted the ruthless occupying German army in the tiny, proud, but stubborn country of Belgium. Victorious in battle, the Imperial German army soon found...

4,835円 Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City until his return. Tweddell's diary captures the s...

477円 The New York Times bestselling authors and former Special Operations veterans, Brandon Webb, Jack Murphy, and Peter Nealen details the dangers of ISIS and how America can stop the religious extremist threat at last "It's too soon to say what steps the United States will take against ISIS. I don't...

1,352円 World War II is often seen as the most brutal conflict the world has ever seen. Never did so many people die because of war in such a brief period. Because the people of today owe their very existence to the people of the past, this book is dedicated to those who fought and died for our freedom. ...

391円 The author escaped from Soviet occupied East Germany in 1947 at fourteen years of age. This left him an unwanted citizen in West Germany. Having to survive, he ended up in North Sea dike construction and a spell of coal mining in the Ruhr District. By 1952 he was able to emigrate to Canada and fo...