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  • Sierra Sue Ii

    The Story of a P-51 Mustang

    par John Christgau ...
    During World War II, 15,000 P-51 Mustang fighter planes were produced by North American Aviation. Arguably the best fighter plane ever made, today there are less than a hundred left flying in the world. Of those, only a handful saw combat. Sierra Sue: The Story of a P-51 Mustang is the story of one of those survivors.The backdrop for the story is Sierra Sue IIs appearance at the huge Offutt Air ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Incident at the Otterville Station

    A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue

    par John Christgau ...
    While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended to ship his slaves by train to Kentucky, where they would be sold at auction. What ensued was one ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Michael and the Whiz Kids

    A Story of Basketball, Race, and Suburbia in the 1960s

    par John Christgau ...
    Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that he’s the first black student to attend his suburban school. And there you have Michael Thompson in 1965 in San Bruno, California. He played at the school where a young English teacher was coaching “lightweight basketball,” a competition for ... En savoir plus

    $24.19 CAD

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  • Gunship Pilot

    An Attack Helicopter Warrior Remembers Vietnam

    It was 1968 and Robert Hartley was on his first combat mission in Vietnam as copilot of a helicopter gunship. As he and his platoon leader flew over the A Shau Valley, a Chinook helicopter engulfed in flames suddenly came into view. Hartley noticed tiny black smoking objects exiting the tail ramp of the aircraft. Seconds later, he realized those objects were men escaping the flames and plunging to ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • 1812

    The War of 1812

    "Without question this is the best popular account of the last war fought between the United States and Great Britain. . . . In a gripping narrative the author not only explains the importance of the War of 1812 but vividly recreates its exciting land and sea battles." —Robert V. Remini, author of The Life of Andrew JacksonAlthough frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story

    par Chuck Gross ...
    Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. He inserted special operations teams into Laos and participated in Lam Son 719 a misbegotten ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Strange and Obscure Stories of the Revolutionary War

    par Tim Rowland ...
    Astonishing Events from the American Revolution That They Don’t Teach in School!We all know about Washington’s crossing of the Delaware and Betsy Ross’s stitching together the Stars and Stripes, but how about a little-known, valid reason for the war itself and why General George was able to survive a plague that wiped out many of his fellow countrymen?History buff Tim Rowland provides an ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Nam Sense

    Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division

    par Arthur Wiknik ...
    A candid memoir of being sent to Vietnam at age nineteen, witnessing the carnage of Hamburger Hill, and returning to an America in turmoil.Arthur Wiknik was a teenager from New England when he was drafted into the US Army in 1968, shipping out to Vietnam early the following year. Shortly after his arrival on the far side of the world, he was assigned to Camp Evans near the northern village of ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Jesse James

    Last Rebel of the Civil War

    par T.J. Stiles ...
    In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure."Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • War Paint

    The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam

    par Bill Goshen ...
    The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe, within hailing distance of the Vietcong central ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    par David Williams ...
    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Custer's Trials (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    A Life on the Frontier of a New America

    par T.J. Stiles ...
    Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFrom the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD