CK - Historical 7

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

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos “A bikers war-compellingly recounted “The highly dangerous task of the aide-de-camp was often to carry u……続きを見る

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos The epic story of the last campaign of the Allied armies that shattered the German Army on the Western F……続きを見る

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos “A classic. Lucy enlisted, with his brother in the RIR 1912, 2nd Bn. in France & gives a very fine accou……続きを見る

From his call up in 1940 to join the North Staffordshire Regiment, through service with the Commando’s at Tobruk, raiding airfields and helping create havoc with The Special Air Service in the North……続きを見る

AFTER days of schooling and nights of anticipation, I woke up one morning to find my dreams come true. Major Raoul Lufbery, the most famous of our American flyers, and the Commanding Officer of our ……続きを見る

Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others. In this gripping short biography, Peter A……続きを見る

Don’t like history? You’re probably reading the wrong books. Read History Bytes, and you’re gonna think, wow! Why didn’t somebody tell me that? American history is full of strange paradoxes, and tha……続きを見る

An jenem Tag, da Augustus bestattet wurde, kamen alle öffentlichen und privaten Geschäfte zum Stillstand. Ganz Rom und Hunderttausende von Menschen aus ganz Italien beteiligten sich an den Trauerfei……続きを見る

Originally published in 1897, “Thirty Years a Slave” is a first person account of life as a slave written by Louis Hughes (1832–1913), an American-born slave belonging to a plantation owner in Charl……続きを見る

Who will be president in 2008? Many believe that the White House is Hillary Clinton's to lose. As long-time strategists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal in Condi vs. Hillary, however, Hillary's ……続きを見る

Discover one family's experience of the Great War. Five years of research has uncovered a history detailing the lives, adventures and tragic deaths of three of the four brave young Cole brothers. Th……続きを見る

Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off theNew England coast, the nation's best college players gatherto play the most important baseball of their lives. Jack Faber is a young hotsho……続きを見る

Now, for the first time, Fox News political analyst and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary, the longtime First Lady, current New York senator, and bestselling au……続きを見る

America’s most elite commando unit, the US Navy SEAL Team Six pulled off one of the most remarkable covert operations in military history when they infiltrated the secret hideout of Osama Bin Laden ……続きを見る

Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer’s correspondence. The author of such classics as Our Town……続きを見る

In the summer of 2008, General Rick Hillier retired as Chief of the Defence staff of the Canadian Forces. You could almost hear the sigh of relief in Ottawa as Canada’s most popular, and most contro……続きを見る

La principessa francese dimenticata il cui coraggio ha creato la dinastia Tudor. La guerra l'ha fatta regina d'Inghilterra. Il suo amore per un uomo del Galles l'ha resa immortale. Meglio conosciuta……続きを見る

The story of Harriet Smith Pullen’s early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family’s subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, ……続きを見る

Kaiser Wilhelm II. hatte vier Schwestern und drei Brüder, die meist im Schatten ihres berühmten Bruders standen. Dieser Band vereint erstmals die bewegenden Einzelbiografien der Geschwister des letz……続きを見る

Perché il corvo della Morrígan sta strillando? Solo i Britanni, amanti della vera libertà, lo sanno! Nel 43 d.C. la conquista romana della Britannia sembra essere certa, finché un incontro casuale t……続きを見る

this is the story of a young  boy who escaped a street of drugs,crimes and rose to kenyan great famous entreprunuer hailing from kibera slums.続きを見る

This is the witty, ironic, and deliciously outspoken coming-of-age memoir of Jack de Yonge set in Fairbanks, Alaska--a once thriving little mining town slowly dying in the remote center of the vast ……続きを見る

Mentre il mondo occidentale cade di fronte alle possenti legioni di Roma, una donna osa combattere per la libertà dei Britanni. Adattamento teatrale del romanzo biografico "Boudicca: la regina degli……続きを見る

From the last days of the Vietnam War to the present-day war on terrorism, this story is a moving and poignant tribute to love, marriage, family, and the men and women who serve this nation. In desc……続きを見る

Three orphaned sisters, each burdened with fears, find themselves fleeing from an abusive, revenge-seeking foster mother. The girls evade authorities and their past when they land on the doorstep of……続きを見る

Une des plus audacieuses opérations commando de la Seconde Guerre mondiale Peut-on être à la fois un héros des Services spéciaux de Sa Majesté et l’un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle ? Patri……続きを見る

Extrait : S’il est difficile de donner une juste idée des contemporains illustres dans l’intimité desquels on n’a pas pénétré, il l’est aussi d’en parler lorsqu’on les a approchés de très près, quan……続きを見る

Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the……続きを見る

Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review "[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive wo……続きを見る