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2991.
America the Beautiful
by John A. Gaetano
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Paperback (6x9) - £14.00
ISBN: 9780759639201
My novel, America the Beautiful, follows in the footsteps of such novels turned into movies, as The Manchurian Candidate, Three Days of the Condor, Seven Days in May, All the President’s Men, and the story of Jim Garrison’s...More
2992.
Nightfall In Mogadishu
by Veronica Li
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Paperback (5x8) - £11.25
ISBN: 9781588202512
We remember images of the dead body of an American marine dragged around the streets of Mogadishu. We remember the firefight with a Somali warlord that claimed the lives of eighteen Americans. But do we know what happened...More
2993.
Escape:: Or How I Took French Leave
by Fred K. Treiber
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Paperback (5x8) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759632172
This book begins as WWII nears its end. It reflects the author agonizing over having grown up in America and now being an enemy soldier with the dread of having to shoot at other soldiers in a different uniform, worn by someone...More
2994.
Orchestra Left, Row T
by Carl Frey Constein
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Paperback (5x8) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759611559
Mark Sperling is a senior at Princeton, a youth of great promise. World War II breaks out. He enlists in the Army Air Corps, becomes a pilot, and is sent to India to fly supplies to China over the Himalayan "Hump."...More
2995.
Israel Awakened: A Chronicle of the Oslo War
by Eugene Narrett
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759646377
Israel Awakened provides a riveting account of the war that erupted in September 2000 from the misnamed "peace process." Interweaving incisive commentary on daily events with a rich tapestry of 20th century...More
2996.
The Making of an American
by Dave Taylor
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Paperback (5x8) - £9.75
ISBN: 9780759644182
The book is the story of our country’s search for independence from England, as seen by a teenager, who was in the Continental Artillery for the whole of seven years. He signed up in July 1776 and served till 1783. He narrates...More
2997.
Number 9: Growing Up On A Cotton Plantation In Northeast Arkansas During the Great Depression 1931-1943
by T.F. Jackson, Jr
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759637184
Number 9 is basically a memoir of a boy (known there as Whoop Jackson) growing up at Number 9, AR, on the C.C. Langston cotton plantation during the Great Depression, specifically 1931-1943. His father (Mista’ Jack) was...More
2998.
Lil' Bit and Swift Eagle
by T. F. Jackson, Jr.
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759641778
Bit Mechem and Bigun Murdock, two confederate veterans work as cowboys in the post-Civil War era. Though they initially met in an altercation, they become friends, and work together on the Bar-O Ranch. They discover a box...More
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Brain, Brawn, and Will: The Turmoils and Adventures of Jeff Ross
by Charles Ross Brashear
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759633643
In 1878, at age 29, Jeff Ross ran away from his law practice and home in small-town Savannah, Tennessee. He knocked about on fishing boats in the northeastern U.S. for a time, ran a side-show in a circus, hawked a "magic...More
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Give'em Watts, Boys!
by Dave Taylor
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Paperback (5x8) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759636378
Revolutionary history telling the part that strong religious belief played in the war's outcome. The book tells about General George Washington's deep faith, then tells the whole story of the Revolution, in a manner that...More