301円 This is Part 1 of a historical collection of rare photos and true stories about the tracks, trains and trainmen of the Pacific Northwest…including Northern California. Railroading is the massive Mallet and the caboose hop. It is the lonely track walker, the roundhouse rumors, the water tender, th...

604円 A young man on the eve of his departure for Florida in the 1880's would be met with something like the following from his elders: "Well, ye prob'ly won't git back. Them there bad men'll kill ye, er the 'gators'll eat ye, er the skeeters'll give ye malary an' that'll kill ye." Undaunted, and lured...

4,333円 This is an account of the military, political and personal life of Abdul Harus Nasution who was a seminal figure in modern Indonesian history in the years prior to his effective sidelining in the 1960s. He was an important commander during Indonesia’s struggle for independence, who rose to become...

2,022円 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “superb and important” (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America’s wartime chief executives “Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss’s broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons ab...

12,233円 The Sinews of Habsburg Power explores the domestic foundations of the immense growth of central European Habsburg power from the rise of a permanent standing army after the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic wars. With a force that grew irregularly in size from around 25,000 soldiers ...

7,295円 In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington’s largest nation-building effort since Vietnam. In 2003, policymakers looked to this “successful” under...

993円 El prestigioso intelectual, escritor y diplomático boliviano Carlos Antonio Carrasco F. nos brinda la traducción de su obra “LOS CUBANOS EN ANGOLA (1975-990)” (Bases para el estudio de una guerra olvidada), cuyo título original en francés es de “L’intervention étrangère dans la guerre angolaise: ...

0円 As General Patton once said, "The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it." The reputation of the Boer is not entirely unearned. At a time when South Africa was a place inhabited by the toughest of men, only those who lived in the saddle with a gun in their hands could possibly surv...

1,100円 Este libro presenta una memoria histórica del conflicto armado colombiano reconstruida a partir de archivos militares inéditos. El uso de las piezas producidas por las Fuerzas Militares entre 1958 y el 2016, así como de aquellas incautadas a los grupos armados ilegales, permite presentar una vers...

468円 Over two million men were recruited for the regiments from the Confederate States of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Cherokee Nation, and parts of Maryland throughout 18611865! The Adjutan...

468円 Over two thousand men were recruited for this regiment from the counties of Hickman, Fayette, Bullitt, Jefferson, Graves, Franklin, Harrison, Scott, Owen, Bourbon, and Anderson throughout 18611865! The Second Kentucky persevered over three years of unbelievable hardship valorously and under const...

468円 Civil War studies normally focus on military battles, campaigns, generals and politicians, with the common Confederate soldiers and Southern civilians receiving only token mention. Using personal accounts from more than two hundred forty soldiers, farmers, clerks, nurses, sailors, farm girls, mer...