CK - Historical 6

Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of George Pickett•A number of accounts of Picketts Charge by its participants•Picketts The Heart of a Soldier, as Revealed in the Intimate Letters ……続きを見る

If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw ……続きを見る

A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporting from the front lines of the war on terror SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD **'**You'll be thinking about this book……続きを見る

Your ancestors are composed of more than vital records and family group sheets. Behind the names and dates are tales of love, loss, resolve and sweeping change--of history itself. Their stories are ……続きを見る

In presenting to the British Public the Life of a man, whose name has been for ages the slogan, or cri de guerre, when the liberty of his country was in danger, few words may suffice in the way of P……続きを見る

In presenting to the British Public the Life of a man, whose name has been for ages the slogan, or cri de guerre, when the liberty of his country was in danger, few words may suffice in the way of P……続きを見る

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick DOUGLASS (c.1818 - 1895) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave……続きを見る

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a ……続きを見る

This vintage book contains William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1852 novel, "Henry Esmond". It is a historical text that tells the tale of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the army of Queen Anne of England. As w……続きを見る

Vielen nur durch seine blauen Pferde, weißen und gelben Kühe oder roten Rehe bekannt, ist Franz Marc weit mehr als der Maler bunter Tiere. Was heute gespenstisch erscheine, werde morgen natürlich se……続きを見る

From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster a……続きを見る

Personal stories of men and women of North Carolina who served with distinction in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. Told in their own words to a fellow veteran, these gallant men an……続きを見る

"The Complete David Crockett: Colonel Crockett's Tour: North & Down East, Narrative of the Life of David Crockett & Colonel Crockett in Texas," 3 Volumes In 1" by David Crockett are David Crockett's……続きを見る

GOING DOWNTOWN: The War Against Hanoi and Washington by Jack Broughton. A combat aviation classic. “Going Downtown” was the term American combat pilots used to denote the almost daily and invariabl……続きを見る

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an ……続きを見る

»Zu Haus ist es am schönsten!«, schreibt Leopold Figl am 8. Mai 1943 lapidar in sein Gästebuch. Wie hätte der KZ-Heimkehrer Worte für das Entsetzliche finden sollen, das ihm widerfahren war? Der Gru……続きを見る

Soon after we landed it became apparent that there was more than enough artillery here, that the enemy were excellent shots, and that their ammo supply seemed to be endless. With the Japanese deeply……続きを見る

A German-American, in South Africa, fighting the British, in an Irish commando, in the Boer army Some years ago Donal McCracken was working on a book of Ireland and the Anglo–Boer War (1899–1902) wh……続きを見る

Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House is both a riveting slave narrative and a fascinating insider’s look at the First Family during the L……続きを見る

To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class……続きを見る

Charles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings - both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless portraits, prints and pub signs, and in his complicate……続きを見る

In charmant musikalischer Sprache, versehen mit Einsprengseln des Karlsruher Dialekts, erzählt Paul Oskar Höcker sechzehn prägende Jahre seines Lebens. Anekdotenreich und humorvoll beschreibt er, wi……続きを見る

**“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”……続きを見る

A Penguin Classic “Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly……続きを見る

The Hawker Typhoon despite numerous technical flaws, was the finest ground support aircraft in Europe during World War II. At the same time the stories of the brave men who flew this difficult aircr……続きを見る

The Final Flight of Maggie's Drawers is the true story of Joe Maloney, a B-24 tail gunner during WWII. HIs story unfolds as he describes, in detail, life in the military, from living in a tent city ……続きを見る

Wenn man nach über 37 Jahren Betriebszugehörigkeit zusammen mit 800 weiteren Mitarbeitern ein Unternehmen verlassen muss, damit es schlankgemacht besser zu verkaufen ist, ist das schon sehr hart - a……続きを見る

Charles Dickens was an English writer, novelist and essayist. The classic of the world literature. The Dickens' creations are referred to heights of realism, but in his novels he reflects sentimenta……続きを見る

Charles Dickens was an English writer, social critic, author of numerous short stories, novels, plays. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest ……続きを見る

James Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let h……続きを見る