Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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Union General John A. McClernand and the Politics of Command
Christopher C. MeyersCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War service. A member of the Illinois G...
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The Incredibly Wealthy
Salem Press IncCurrent price €401.84Original price €422.99The latest title in the award-winning Great Lives from History series, The Incredibly Wealthy covers 446 extremely rich individuals from ancient ...
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Playing for Malaya: A Euroasian Family and the Pacific War
Rebecca KenneisonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, 'only told what Reggie wanted you to know.' Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking with ...
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A Black Gamblers World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics: William Thomas Scott of Illinois, 18391917
Bruce L. MouserCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99William Thomas Scott (18391917) was an entrepreneur and political activist from East Saint Louis and Cairo, Illinois, who in 1904 briefly became th...
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Whitey: The Story of Rear Admiral E. L. Feightner, A Naval Fighter Ace
Peter B. MerskyCurrent price €46.74Original price €54.99Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy's most respected officers of a...
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Marine Corps Generals, 1899-1936: A Biographical Encyclopedia
Glenn M. HarnedCurrent price €50.99Original price €59.99Before World War I, the U.S. Marine Corps had no general officer corp. From 1899 to 1914, three line officers served in the office of commandant as...
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Joe Rochefort''s War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
Elliot CarlsonCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99Elliot Carlsons award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navys...
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An Unsung Soldier: The Life of Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
Robert S. JordanCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster was one of the leading soldier-scholars of his time. He was one of the key figures during the Cold War - one who stood am...
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Bill Lambert: World War I Flying Ace
Samuel J. WilsonCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99World War I fighter pilot William C. Lambert of Ironton, Ohio, flew for the British Royal Air Force in 1918. When he left the Western Front in A...
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Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal
Mary Macdonald OgdenCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life a...
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Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
University of New Mexico PressCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99This is a life touched by tragedy and deprivation - childhood in her native. Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then ...
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Freedom''s Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
Sylvia EllisCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Ellis paints a portrait of a politician who, like many other politicians, often publicly sailed with the prevailing political winds of the day but ...
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The Strange Comrade Balabanoff: The Life of a Communist Rebel
Maria LafontCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Born in 1878 to a wealthy Ukrainian family, Angelica Balabanoff broke ties with her parents and left for Europe to become one of the leading fem...
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Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811
Jane MerrillCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and ac...
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Slow Dying: The Bosnian War Prison Camp at Visoko Diary and Testimonies
Milenko S MilanovicCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50Current price €16.63Original price €17.50Save 5% -
The Quack''s Daughter: A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl
Greta NettletonCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was s...
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Albert Luthuli: Bound by faith
Scott CouperCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99An account of the political career of Albert Luthuli, former President of the African National Congress (ANC). It centres around the launching of t...
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James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist
Karen E. RobbinsCurrent price €36.54Original price €42.99A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war...
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E.D. Nixon: The Unsung Father of The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Michael EaddyCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Current price €19.13Original price €21.99Save 13% -
Nobody''s Hero: The Story of a Marine Sniper Scout
Karla R JensenCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50Current price €28.60Original price €32.50Save 12%