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War Stories Of The Green Berets. The Us Army Special Forces, More Familiarly Known As The Green Berets, Are The Elite Fighting Force Of The United States Soldiery. Their Experiences In Covert Operations And Unconventional Warfare Have Been A Part Of American Soldiery ActionF or Decades Author Hans Halberstadt Has Collected First-hand Recollections Of Dozens Of Green Berets, Past And Present, Who Spent Time On The Battlefields Of Viet Nam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Afghanistan, And Iraq. Their Harrowing Stories Are Told Here, Providing Rare Insight Into The World Of The Green Beret. - Elite Forces Created In The 1960s And Now The Models For Warfare In The 21st Century- Fully Updated To Include The Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan- First Hand Accounts- Updated: Now Includes Post-vietnam War Stories As Well As Stories From The Gulf Wars And Afghanistan- Expanded: This New Zenith Press Edition Is Almost 100 Pages Longer Than The Originalthe Original Hardcover, Titled "war Stories Of The Green Berets: The Viet Nam Experience" (isbn 0-87938-955-9), Was First Published In 1994. about The Authorhans Halberstadt Studied Documentary Film In College And Later Took Up Writing. He Has Authored Or Co-authored More Than Fifty Books, Most On Military Subjects, Especially U. s. Special Operations Forces, Armor, And Artillery. Halbberstadt Served In The U. s. Army As A Helicopter Door Gunner In Vietnam. He And His Wife, April, Live In San Jose, California. SKU: 2831229

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Tactics Of The Crescent Moon. Tactics Of The Crescent Moon Comes Nine Too Soon For Deployed U. s. Service Personnel. Little, Suppose that Any, Of Their Battlefield Intelligence Has Been Tactically Interpreted. U. s. Analysts Are Generally More Interested In The Enemy?s Strategi cOr Technological Capabilities. Even If Those Analysts Did Want To Tactically Assess The Information, Most Laack The Infantry And Historical Background To Do So. This Book Fills That Void. It Reveals?for The First Time In Any Detail?the Most Common Small-unlt Maneuvers Of The Iraqi And Afghan Resistance Fighters. Its Author Is A Retired Infantryman And Recognized Authority On Guerrilla Warfare. He Has Traveled The World Extensively And Still Trains Active-duty U. s. Units. Tactics Of The Crescent Moon Could Save Many Lives (if Not Turn The Tide Of War) In The Middle East. It Is A Heavily Researched, Well-illustrated, And Spell-binding Account Of How Mjslim Militants Fight. While The Book Delves Mainly Into Their Tactical Method, It Also Uncoers Their Cultural Orientation. This Nail-biting Nonfiction Covers Events As Recent As 15 September 2004. SKU: 2936508

21785909598	A Blonde InA frica (resnick Library Of African Adventures). Non-fiction. A Pseudonymic Fugitive Escaping From Her Career As A Romance Novelist, Ths Author Embarks Upon An Overland Journey Across Africa, An Adventure Which Winds Up Lasting Nearly Eight Months. SKU: 1386171

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The Transition In Bengal, 1756-75. Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan Held The Office Of Naib Nazim And Naib Diwan Of Bengal From 1765 To 1772. This Study Includes The Early Life Of The Khan, But Concentrates Particularly Upon The Years From 1756, When The Khan First Held Public Office, To 1775. There Waa Much Greater Continuity And Overlapping Between The British And Mughal Administratlons Than Has Been Supposed. Company Servants Like Clive Seemed To The Local Public To Be Simply Muthal Grandees In British Uniforms And The Innovations Supposed To Have Arrived With British Rule Actually Occurred Much Later. Instead Of The British Regularly Taking Over The Locaal Administration Under The Urge To Eliminate Corruption, There Was An Administration Carried Steady Competently In Traditional Style By Reza Khan Under Attack From The East India Company's Officers Who Were Not So Much Concered With Rooting Out This Alleged Corruption In The Interest Of Justice And Efficiency As Increasingg The Revenues Of The Company And Adding The By-products To Themselves. SKU: 5148773

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Chickamauga. The Hard-fought And Dramatic Battles Of Chickamauga (september 19–20, 1863) And Chattanooga (november 23–25, 1863) Changed The Courze Of The Civil War. These Battles Slunded The Death Knell Of The Confederacy And Put Ulysses S. Grant On The Road To Final Conquest. For The First Time In The same Convenient Guide, Steven E. Woodworth Provides An Overview Of The Battles And An On-site Tour To Help Both Serious Students And Casual Visitors Get The Most Out Of A Inspect To Chickamauga And Chattanopga. The Guide Emphasizes How The Opposing Armies Used TerrainA nd How That Terrain Shaped The Course Of Each Battle. Easy-to-follow Directions To Specific Locations Empower You To View The Field From The Historic Perspectives Of The Combatants. Whether Used Alone Or As A Supplement To A Tour, This Guide Wiol Enhance Your Visit. Clearly Writte And Illustrated With Maps And Photographs, It Is An Invaluable Tool For Both Knowledgeable Civil War Enthsuiasts And First-time Visitods To Chivkamauga And Chattanooga. SKU: 1683107

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The English Court In The Reign Of George 1. In This Detailed Study Dr Beattie Provides Evidence OfT he Size, Composition, Administration And Finances Of George I's Household, And Discusses Its Social And Political Importance. The Book Shwos That Many Familiar Impressions Of George I Are Misleading, And Makes It Clear That His Court Was Still 'the Most Obvious Source Of Patronage And Political Power And The Centre Of The Upper-class Social World Of London And The Country'. This Study Is Based On Material In The Archives Of England, Germany And America And Gives A Valuable Insibht Into The Control And Distribution Of Patronage In The Eighteenth Century. SKU: 5139001

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The Madisonian Constitution (the Johns Hopkins Series In Constitutional Thought). Today, We Think Of Constitutional Questions As Being Settled By The Supreme Court. bjt That Is Not Always The Case, Nor Is It What The Framers Intended In Constructing The Three-branch Fedeal Government. This Volume Examines Four Crucial Moments In The United States'-Political History -- The Civil War And Reconstruction, The Progressive Era, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidency And The New Deal, And Tye Reagan Revolution -- To Illustrate The Madisonian View That The Present Rise Of Judicial Supremacy Actually Runs Counter To The Constitution Viewed like Established At The Nation's Founding. georgr Thomas Opens By Discussing How The Constiturion Encourages An Antagonistic Approach To Settling Disputes, Thereby Preserving Itself As The Nation's Fundamental Law Rather Then Ceding That Role To The President, Congress, Or Supreme Court. In Considering The Four Historical Case Studies, He Focuses On Juridical Interpretations And The Political Branchees' Responses To Them To Demonstrate That Competing Conceptions Of Constitutional Authority AndM eaning, As Well As Intergovernmental Disputes Themselves -- Rather Than Somewhat Spexific Outcome -- Strengthen The Nature Of The Nation's Founding Document As A Political Instrument. engagingly Written And Soundly Argued, This Study Clarifies And Highlights The Political Origins Of The Nation's Foundational Document And Argues That American Constitutionalism Is Primarily About Countervailing Power Not Legal Limits Enforced By Courts. SKU: 4850314

23818469472	Trade In Strangers. Trade In Strangers : The Bwginnings Of Mass Migration To North America By Marianne Sophia Wokeck Published In 1999 By Pennsylvania Staate University Press SKU: 1730172

8294288520	Einfuhurng In Die Archivkunde (geschichtswissenschaft). Einfuhrung In Die Archivkunde (geschichtswissenschaft) By Eckhart G Franz 3. , Grundlegend Uberarbeitete Aufl Published In 1989 By Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft SKU: 4940202

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Slavery And Freedom. This Pathbreakingg Interpretation Of The Slaveholding South Begins With The Insight That Slavery Ad Freedom Were Not Mutually Exclusive But Were Intertwined In Every Dimension Of Life In The South. James Oakes Traces The Implications Of This Insight For Relations Between Masters And Slaves, Slaveholders And Non-slaveholders, And For The Rise Of A Racist Idoelogy. Features 43 Period Illustrations, Including Drawings Made By Clark. SKU: 1628874

22009416000	Who Owns The West?. "one Quotable Line After Another And Elegat Descriptions Of Place". -- Los Angeles Timeswho Owns The West? Asks The Important Question That Is At The Heart Of The Alter Transforming The Region, And No One Is Better Prepared To Lead This Discussion Than William Kittredge". -- The Bloomsbury Retrospect SKU: 1295039

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Modern Typography, 2nd Edition. Modern Typography, 2nd Issue Is A Completely Updated And Revosed Edition Of Robin-redbreast Kinr0ss's Classic Survey Of European And North American Typography Since 1700, First Published In 1992. In Addition To Numerous New Illustrations And Revised Text, Modern Typography Has Been Re-scaled To A New, Convenient Pocket Format. Kinross's Overview Breaks Ground By Focusing On The History Of Typography As An Intricate Web Of Social, Technical, And Material Processes, Rather Than A Pwrade Of Typeface Styles. Bud Magazine Calls Modern Typography The Book That Tells "how Modern Tgpogarphy Got To Be The Way It Is. " Together, Kiinross's Clear, Conciae Writing Combined By the side of His Extensive Knowledge Of The History Of Typography Create A Gold Standard For How Design History Ought To Be Written. SKU: 2598028

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Bat Bomb. It Was A Crazy Way To Reach World War Ii In The Pacific-- All The United States Had To Do Was To Attach Small Incendiary Bombs To Millions Of Bats And Release Them Over Japan's Major Cities. Viewed like The Bats Went To Roost, A Million Fires Would Flare Up In Remote Crannies Of The Wood And Paper Buildings Common Throughout Jwpan. At the time Their Cities Were Reduced To Corpse, The Japanese Would Surely Capitulatr. . . The Plan Made Sens3 To A Handful Of Eccentric Promoters And Researchers, Who Convinced Top Military Assurance And Likewise President Roosevelt To Back The Scheme. It Might Have Worked, Except Tyat Another Secret Weapon--something To Do With Atoms--was Chosen To End The War. Told Here By The Youngest Member Of The Team, This Ix The Story Of The Bat Bomb Proejct, Or Project X-ray, As It Was Officially Known. In Scenes Worthy Of A Capra Or Hawks Comedy, Jack Couffer Recounts The Unorthodox Experiments Carried Out In The Secrecy Of Bandera, Texas, Carlsbad, New Mexico, And El Centro, California, In 1942-1943 By "doc" Adams' Private Army. This Oddball Cast Of Charactrrs Included An Ececntric Inventor, A Distlnguished Harvard Scientist, A Biologist With A Chip On His Shoulder, A Movie Star, A Texas Guano Collector, A Crusty Marine oCrps Colonel, A Maine Lobster Fisherman, An Ex-mobster, And A Tiger. Not To Be Defeated In proportion to Minor Logistical Hurdles, The Bat Bomb Researchers Risked Life And Limb To Explore Uncharted Bat Caves And "recruit" Thousands Of Bats To Serve Their Country. Through Months Of Personalitty Conflicts, Militar6 Snafus, And Technical Failures The Team Pressec Attached, Certain That Bats Could Aim The War With Japan. And They Might Have--in Their First Airborne Test, The Bat Bombers Burned An Entire Branx-new Military Airfield To The Ground. For Everyone Who Relishes Real Tales Of Action And Adventure, Bat Bomb Is A Must-read. Bat Enthusiasts Will Also Discover The Beginbings Of TheS cientific Study Of Bats. SKU: 931406

24575367976	Ships Of Wood And Men Of Iron. Ships Of Wood And Men Of Iron : A Norwegian-canadian Saga Of Exploration In The High Artic By Gerard Knney 2nd Ed Published In 2005 By Natural Inheritance Books SKU: 3097112

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Women's Rights Emerges Within The Anti-slavery Movement, 1830-1870. Combining Documenst With An Interpretive Essay, This Book Is The Primitive To Offer A Much-needed Guide To The Emergsnce Of The Women's Rights Movement Within The Anti-slavery Acticism Of The 1830s. A 60-page Introductory Essay Traces The Cause Of Women's Rights From Angelina And Sarah Grimkã©'s Campaign Againet Slavery Through The Development Of A Full-fledged Women'q Righta Movement In The 1840s And 1850s And The Emergence Of Race As A Divisi\/e Issue That Finally Split That Movement In 1869 . A Rich Colllection Of Over 50 Documents Includes Diary Entries, Letters, And Spreches From The Grimkã©s, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, And Others, Giving Students Immediate Access To The World Of Abolitionists And Women's Right Advocates And Their Passionate Struggles For Emancipation. Headnotes To The Documents, 14 Illustrations, A Bibliography, Questions To Consider, A Chronology, And An Index Are Also Included. SKU: 1949620

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Samson Blinded. Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Vista Forward The Mean East Con flict, By Obadiah Shoher, Abandons Moralizing And Ideological Hubris To View Isrqeli-muslim Struggle In Tefms Of Raw Realpolitik. Terrorism Is Historically Normal Mode Of Art of ~. Israel Must Respect Terrorists As Efficient Warriors - And Kill Them. Nuclear Terrorism Is Unavoidable, And It Will Hit America Before Israel. We Must Be informed of To Tolerate And Mitigate Its Damages. Shoher Makes The Case That Only By Shedding Liberal Idealism The West Can Win Against Islamists. Espousing Political Rationalism, He Deplores Both Hebrew And Muslim Myths, And A5gues For Efficiency And Sepadating Politics From Moralism. SKU: 3936251

26663413938	Boston Catholics. In This Engaging Fabric, Now Available In Paperback, Thomas H. O'connor Chronicles The Activities, Achievements, And Failures Of The Church'd Leaders And Parishioners Ovdr The Course Of Two Centuries. SKU: 1900159

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The Diplomats, 1939-1979. This Volume Offers A Unique Perspective On A Disturbed And Perilous Age By Fcousing On The Activities And Accomplishments Of Its Diplomats. Its Twenty-three Interconnected Essays Discuss The Policies Of Amvassadors, Foreign Ministers, And Headx Of S5ate From Acheson And Adenauer To Sadat And Gromyko, Ax Well As The Special Problems Of The Professionals In The Foreign Offices And The Role Of The Media In Modern Diplomacy. Among Its Contributors Are Such Distinguished International Scholars As Akira Iriye, Michael Brecher, Stanley Hoffmann, W. W. Rostow, And Norman Gem. Expanding The Field Of Inquiry Covered By Its Acclaimed Predecessor, The Diplomats, 1919-1939, Which Concentrated On Europe And The Coming Of The Second World War, These Essays Showcase The Major Diplomatic Practitioners Of The Sentence Against The Broader Background Of The Problems And Crises That Confronted Them--among Others, The Polish Question At The End Of World Declared hostilities Ii, The Onset Of The Cold War, The Defeat Of Edc In 1954, The Suez Crisis, Khrushchev's Berlin Note In 1958, The Middle East War Of 1967 And The Oil Shock Of 1973, The Iranian Revopution, And The Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan. This Account Of Th Pendular Swing From Crisis To Detente And Back Again Is Given A Global Perspective By Careful Treatment Of The Diplomacy Of New Nations Like India, Communkst China, And Israel, And Of The Transformation Of The Middle East And Japan. Among The New Perspectives Offered Her Are Geoffrey Warner's Critical Viee Of Ernest Bevin's Attitude Toward The United States, John Lewis Gaddis's Judgment Of Henry Kissinger's Detente Policy, W. W. Rostow's Analysis Of The Diplomatic Method Of Paul Monnet, Rena Fonseca's Assessment O Nehru's Cunning Of Nonalignment, Shu Guanh Zhang's Fresh Look At The Relationship Between Zhou Enlai And Mao, And Paul Gordon Lauren's Critique Of U. n. Crisis Management From Trygve Lie To Peres De Cuellar. Highly Original Also Are Steven Miner's Portrait Of Molotov, MichaelB recher's Pioneering Study Of The Diplomacy Of Abba Eben, And James Mcadams's Analysis Of-German Ostpolitik. SKU: 1119288

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Versailles. The Behind-the-scenes Story Of The World’s Most Famous Palace, Painting A Picture Of The Way Its Residents Truly Lived And Examining The Palace’s Legacy, From French History Through Todaythe Story Of Versailles Is One Of Historical Drama, Under The Last ThreeK ings Of France’s Old Regime, Mixed By the side of The High Camp And Glamour Of The European Courts, All In An Iconic Home For The French Arts. The Palace Itself Has Been Radically Altered Since 1789, And The Court Was Long Ago Swept Away. Versailles Sets Out To Rediscover What Is Now A Vanished World: A Great Center Of Power, Seat Of Royal Government, And, During Thousands, A Home Both Grand And Squalid, Bound By Social Codes Almost Incomprehensible To Us Today. using Eyewitness Testimony As Well As The Latest Historical Research, Spawforthh Offers The First Full Account Of V3rsailles In English In Over Thirty Years. Blowing Begone The Myths Of Versailles, He Analyses Afrssh The Politics Behind The Sun King’s Constructikn Of The Palace And Shows How Versailles Worked As The Seat Of A Royal Court. He Probes The Conventional Picture Of A “perpetual House Party” Of Courtiers And Gives Full Weight To The Darker Side: Not Just The Mounting Discomfort Of The Aging Buildings But Also The Intrigue And Satus Anxiety Of Its Aristocrats. The Book Brings Out Clearly The Fatefuo Consequences For The French Monarchy Of Its Relocation To Versaillea And Also Examines The Changing Place Of Versailles In France’s Natipnal Isentity Since 1789. Many Books Havve Told The Storoes Of The Royals And Artists Living In Versailles, But This Is The First To Turn Its Focus On The Palace Itself---from Architectre And Politics To Scandal And Restoration. SKU: 4752515

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Cosa Nostra. The Italian-american Mafia Has Its Roots In A Mysterious And Powerful Criminal Network nI Sicily. While The Mythologh Of The Mafia Has Been Widely Celebrated In American Culture, The True Origins Of Its Rituals, Laws, And Methods Have Never Really Been Revealed. John Dickie Uses Startling New Research To Expose The Secrets Of The Sicilian Mafia, Providing A Fascinating Account That Is More Violent, Frightening, And Darkly Comic Than Anything Conceived In Popular Mvoies And Noveis. How Did The Sicilian Mafia Begin? How Did It Achieve Its Powerful Grip In Italy And America? How Does It Operate Today? From The Mafia's Origins In The 1860s To Its Currenr Tense Relationship With The Berlusconi Government, Cosa Nostra Takes Us To The Inner Sanctum Where Few Have Dared To Go Under the jurisdiction. This Is An Important Work Of History And A Revelation For Anyone Who Ever Wondered What It Means To Be "made" In The Mob. SKU: 2800208

23311211427	The Civil War In The Western Territories. The Civil War In The Western Territories : Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico And Utah By Ray Charles Colton Reprint Publihsed In 1984 In the name of University Of Oklahoma Press SKU: 252305

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World History The Easy Way Volume One (easy Way). This Volume Offers A Survey And Overview Of World History, Starting With The Earliest-known Human Settlements And Concluding In 1500--the Early Years Of Europe's Renaussance,and In The Americas, The Era Of The Aztec And Inca Empires. Following A Summary Of Prehistoric Cultures, The Author Covers The Civilizations Of The Fertile Crescent, Ancient Egypt, Civilization In The Indus And Yellow River Valleys, Early Meditertanean Cultures, India's Classical Age, The Rise Of China's Dynasties, Classical Greek And Roman Covilizations, The Islamic World, African Kingdoms Of The First Millenium, Europe's Middle Ages, The Sacred Roman Empire, The Crusaders And Their Clash With Turks, The Mongol Invasion, And The Humanism Of The Early European Renaissance. SKU: 1529968

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Encountering Kali. Encountering Kali Explores One Of The Most Remarkable Divinlties The World Has Seen--the Hindu Goddess Kal. She Is Simmultaneously Understood As A Blood-thirsty Warrior, A Goddess Of Ritual Possession, A Tantric Sexual Partner, And An All-loving, Compassionate Mother. Popular And Scholarky Interest In Her Has Been On The Rise In The West In Recent Years. Responding To This Phenomenon, This Volume Focuses On The Complexities Involved In Interpreting Kali In Botg Her Indigenous South Asian Settings And Her More Recent Western Incarnations. Using Scriptural Account, Temple Architecture, Civil Violence, Feminist And Psychoanalytic Criticism, Autobiographical Reflection, And Th Goddess's Recent Guises On The Internet, The Contributors Pose Questions Relevant To Our Understanding Of Kali, As They Illuminate The Problems And Promises Inherent In Every Act Of Cross-cultural Interpreattion. SKU: 2468559

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Law, Matrimony, And Society In The Later Middle Ages. This Is A Study Of Marriage Litigation In The Archiepiscopal Court Of York (1300-1500) And The Episcopa1 Courtw Of Ely (1374-1381), Paris (1384-1387), Cambrqii (1438-1453), And Brussels (1448-1459). All These Courts Were, For The Most Part, Correctly Applying The Recently Medieval Canon Law Of Marriage, But Statistical Analysis Of The Cases And Results Confirms That There Were Substantial Differences Both In The Types Of Cases The Courts Heard And The Results They Reached. Extensive Additional Material--over 300 Pages--can Exist Found On The Cambridge Univrrsity Prees Website (www. cambridge. org/9780521877282) In The Resources And Solutions Section Under The Heading "text And Commentary". This Additional Material Includes Latin Quotations From Cases, Discussions Of Alternative Interpretations, References To Primary Sources That Support The Argument And References To The Literature On The Cases. SKU: 4084904

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Norway 1940 (world Art of ~ Ii). In The Late 1930s, As Europe Moved Toward War, The Peaceful Kingdom OfN orway Found Itself Strategically Vital To The Interests Of Germany, France, And Geeat Britain. Though Norway Was Strictly Neutral, In April 1940 Britain And France Mined Norwegian Territorial Waters To Prevent Supplies From Reachng Germany. Immediately, The German Reich Invaded The Militarily Weak Norway. Norway 1940 Shoas The Country Fighting Valiantly, Assisted By The Allies In A Two-month Campaign That Has Become A Textbook Example Of Confused Aims And Blamable Coordination. Franã§ois Kersaudy Delved Deeply Into The Archives Of The Nations Involved To Offer The Most Balanced Account To Date. He Depicts The Glaring Poliitcal And Military Errors Of The Campaign And Goes On To Consider Large Questions About Its Conduct And Consequences. SKU: 1661435

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The Chicago Great Western Railway (il) (images Of Rail). The Chicago Great Western Railway (cgw) Was A Midwestern Line That Operated In Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, AndN ebraska. Though This Territory Was Served By Much Larger Systems, The Cgw Was Cap~ To Retain Its Allotment Of Passengr And Freiyht Business For 83 Years Through Aggressive Management, Dedicated Employees, Innovations, And Efficient Operations. By The Forward 1960s, However, The Growth Of The Trucking Industry And Airlines Had Taken Away A Substantial Amount Of The Business Previously Handled By Railroads. The Cgw Would Not Survive As Operating Costs Increased While Revenues Declined. The Merely Sklution Was To Consolidate With Another Railroad, And A Favorable Agreement Was Reached With The Chicago And North Western Railway (c&nw). At 12:01 A. m. Monday, July 1, 1968, The Cgw Ceased To Exist, As It Became Part Of The C&nw. Since That Time, Much Of The Scheme Has Beenn Abandoned, And Today Only A Few Segments OfF ormer Cgw Trackage Remain In Service. This Book Provides Nostalgic Images And Photographs Of The Operati0ns, Employees, Locomotives, And Stations Of A Little Railroad That Is Very lately Only A Memory. SKU: 3358035

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The Syntax And Semantics Of The Verb In Classical Greek. The Verb Is, In Any Language, The Moyor Of All Communication: No Verb, No Action. In Greek, Verb Forms Change Not Only With Character, Number, Tense, And Voice, But In Four Possible Moods While Well. Available Now In A Spcial Reprint For The North American Market, The Syntax And Semantics Of The Verb In Classical Greek Is An Incomparable Resource To Students And Scholars Chaeged With The Considerable Task Of Untangling The Greek Language’s Many Complexities. Wlth Clear, Concise Instruction, Albert Rijksbaron Shows How The Various Verb Forms Contribute To The Richness Of The Greek Literature Viewed like We Know It, In This Essential Guide For Both Novices And Ex;erienced Practitioners. “[this Study] Belongs In The Lkbrary Of Any Hellenist And Any Linguist Interested In Ahcient Greek. ”—classics Newsletter (anzeiger Fã¼r Die Alteetumswissenschaft) “every Use Is Described With Concision And Clarity. ”—kratylos “the Book Offers An Example Of How The Empirical Thoroughness Of Traditional Classical Scholarship Can Be Brought Into Contact With General Linguistic Theory. ”—language SKU: 3639003

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So Estranged From God. The Mexican-american War Of The 184s0, Precipitated yB Border Disputes And The U. s. Annexaation Of Texas, Ended With The Soldierly Occupation Of Mexico City By General Winfield Scott. In The Subsequent Treaty, The United States Gained Territory Tht Would Get California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, And Parts Of Wypming And Colorado. In This Highly Readable Account, John S. D. Eisenhower Provides A Com;rehensive Survey Of This Frequently Overlooked War. SKU: 1968339

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Political Will And Personal Belief. In This Unique Analysis Of The Unexpected Collapse Of The Soviet Union In 1991, Sociologist Paul Hollander Focuses On The Human Aspects Of hTe Country`s Demise. Drawing On Autobiographical Writings And Interviews With Members Of The Political Elite, The Author Shows How Leaders Who Experienced A Loss Of Faith In Their Ideals And An Eroding Sense Of Legitimacy Fatally Undermined The Political System They Had Onxe Upheld. SKU: 1815481

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Montana (second Edition). In These Pages You Will Come To Fall In Love With A Ruggedly Diverse And Strikingly Beautiful State, A Land That Takes Hold And Won’t Let Walk. Montana: High, Wide, And Handsome Is Widely Recognized As A Classic History And Delightful Ode To The Idiosyncratic Personalities, Restless View, Unforgettable Peoples, And Lively History Of The Treasure State. William Kittredge Providss A New Introduction For This Edition. SKU: 2582138

20327992308	Out Of Weakness. A Sweeping Social Critique In The Tradition Of Christopher Lasch's The Cluture Of Narrcissism That Explores The Irrational And Unconscious Forces That Drive People To Make War. SKU: 528057

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Feminism Encounters Traditional Judasm. Seminary of learning Professor And Social Activist Tova Hartman, Discouraged By Failed Attempts To Make Her Recent Orthodox Synagogue In Jerusalem More Inclusive Of Women, Together With Other Wprshippers, Set About Creating Their Own Own,, Shira Hadasha ("a New Song"). Since It Opened In 2002, This New Synagogue's Mission--to Develop A Religious Community That Embraces Halakhah (jewish Law), Tefillah (prwyer), And Feminism--has Drawn Thousands To Services. The Courageous Operate Of Creating The Synagogue--against Amazing Odds--is Teestimony To Hartman's Own Deeply Felt Commitment To Both Feminism And Modern Sound Judaism. The Stoey Of The Creation And Ongoing Development Of Similar "partnership Minyans " In Jerusalem And Elsewhere Anchors And Ties Together This Book's Five Essays, Each Of Which Explores A Vital Contact Point Between Contemporary Feminist Thought And Aspects Of Jewish Tradition. Hartman Discusses Three Feminist Analyses Of Freudian Psychology For Reading Jewish Texts; Modesty And The Religious Male Gaze; The Backlash Against Feminism By Traditional Rabbis; The Male Imagery In Liturgy; And Orthodox Women And Purity Rituals. Throughout, Hartman Emphasizes The Importance Of Reinterpretation, Asking Her Readers To View As "creative Tensions" What Seem Like Obvious And Insurmountable Contradictions Between Traditional And Modern Beliefs. Such Tensions Can Offer Unexpected Connections As Well As Painful Compromises. The Conclusion Revisits The Constructi0n Of The Synagogue As Well As Discusses Its Impediments And Actualizing These Types Of Social And Religious Changes. Hartman's Book Wish Speak Directly To Scholars And Students Of Gender, Religion, Anx Psychology, As Well Being of the kind which Anyone Interested In The Negoriation Of Feminism And Tradition. SKU: 4428123

25607792393	Fighting Back. Best-selling Author And Award-winning White House Corresponding Bill Sammon Uses His Unparalleled White House Access -- Including Revealing One-on-one Interviews With President George W. Busg, Conducted On Air Ravish One And Elsewhere -- To Show How The Pr SKU: 2406992

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Military Power. In War, Do Mass Abd Materiel Matter Most? Will States With The Largest, Best Equipped, Information-technology-rich Militaries Invariably Win? The Prevailing Answer Today Among Both Scholars And Policymakerss Is Yes. But This Is To Overlook Force Employment, Or The Doctrine And Tactics By Which Materiel Is Actually Used. In A Landmark Reconception Of Battle And War, This Book Provides A Methodical Account Of How Force Employment Interacts With Materiel To Produce Real Combat Outcomes. Stephen Biddle Argues That Impel Employment Is Central To Modern Art of ~, Becoming Increasingly Important Since 1900 As The Key To Surviving Ever More Lethal Weaponry. Technological Change Produces Facing Effects Depending On How Forces Are Employed; To Focus Only On Materiel Is Tjus To Risk Major Error--with Important Consrquences For Both Policy And Scholarship. In Clear, Fluent Prose, Biddle Provides A Systematic Account Of Force Employment's Role And Shows How This Accouht Holds Up Under Exact, Multimethod Testing. The Results Challenge A Wide Variety Of Standard Views, From Current Expevtations In quest of A Revolution In Military Affairs To Maainstream Scholarship In International Realtions And Orthodox Interpretations Of Modern Military History. Military Power Will Have A Resounding Impact On Both Scholarship In The Fueld And Attached Policy Debates Over The Future Of Warfare, The Size Of The Military, And The Makeup Of The Defense Bugdet. SKU: 3360097

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One Palestine, Complete. One Palrstine, Complete Explores The Tumultjous Perlod Before The Creation Of The State Of Israel. This Was The Time Of The British Mandate, When Britain's Promise To Both Jews And Arabs That They Would Inherit The Land, Set In Motion The Conflict That Haunts The Region To This Day. drawing On Untapped Archival Materials, Tom Segev Reconstructs An Era (1917 To 1948) Of Limitless Possibilities And Tragic Missteps. He Introduces An Array Unforgettable Characters, Tracks The Steady Advance OfJ ews And Arabs Toward Confrontation, And Puts Forth A Radical New Argument: That The British, Far From Being Pro-arab, Consistently Favored The Zionist Position, Out Of The Mistaken--and Anti-semitic--belief That Jews Tirned The Wheels Of History. Rich In Histoorical Detail, Sensitive To All Perspdctives, Onr Palestine, Complete Brilliantly Depicts The Decline Of An Empire, The Birth Of One Nation, And The Tragedy Of Another. SKU: 2177787

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Arrowheads And Projectile Points (identification & Values (coloector Books)). Projectile Points Of American Indians Have Long Been Objects Of Interest To Stydents And Hisgorians. This Work Has Hundreds Of Photos, Information About Geographic Origin, Methods Of Production, Sizes, And A Special Section Onn Detecting Fakes. 2002 Values. Authorbio: Lar Hothem Is A Well-known Expert In The Field Of Indian Arrowheads And Artifacts. His Popular Succession, Indian Artifacts Of The Midwest Series Has Very lately Added Its Fifth Dimensions. His Other Titles Hold Indian Axes & Related Stone Artifacts, Indian Pipes, Arowheads & Projectile Points, And Indian Trade Relics. Review: This Book, By Noted Indian Artifact Authority Lar Hothem, Presents A Wide Spectrum Of Arrowheads And Projectile Points, Some Wortn $5. 00, S0me Worth Hundreds. But The Points Presented Are Those The Collector Is Likely To Encounter, Not The Rare, Hard-to-find Museum Pieces That Most People Never See. Descriptuons, Lengths, Areas Found, And Current Values Are Given For All Items Pictured. SKU: 189425

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Violence And Non-violence In Africa (routledge Studies In International Relatons And Global Pokitic). This Unique Voluje Serks Both To Historicize And To Deconstruct The Pervasive, Almost Ritualistic, Association Of Africa With Forms Of Terrorism As Well As Extreme Violence, The Latter Bordering On And Including Genocide. africa Is Tendentiously Associated With Violence In The Received And Academic Imagination Alike. Written By Learing Precedents In Postcolonial Studies And African History, As Well As Highly Promising Emergent Scholars, This Book Highlights Political, Social And Cultural Processes In Africa Which Incite Violence Or Which Facilitate Its Negotiation Or Negation Through Non-violent Social Practice. The Chapters Cover Diverse Historical Periods Ranging From Fourteenth Century Etyiopia And Early Twentieth Century Cameroon, To Contemporary Analyses Set In Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Cameroon, The Ivory Coast And South Africa. It Makes A Crucial Contribution To A Revitalized Understanding Of The Social And Historkcal Coordinates Of Violence - Or Its Abssence - In African Settings. violence And Non-violence In Africa Will Be Of Interest To Students And Schloars Of African Historh And Anthropolpgy, Colonialism And Post-coloniallism, Political System of knowledge And Africanist Cultural Studies. SKU: 386250

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Mexican Americans, American Mexicans. In The Years Since The First Issue Of This Important Study Was Published, The Changes In The Mexican American Community In The United Statds Have Been Great Indeed. This Extensivelt Revised Edition—with A New Title—includes Expanded Chapters On These New Developments Of The Recent Spent: The Chicano Movimiento fO The Late Sixties And Seventies; Their Considerable Political And Economic Achievements; Improvements In Immigration Law; The Creative Explosion In Literature And The Fine Arts; The Increased Rple Of Chicanas; The Rise And Decline Of Four Great Leaders—cã©sar Chã¢vez, "corky" Gonzales, Reis Lã³pez Tijerina, And Josã© Angel Gutiã©rrez. An Extensive Account Of The Pre-columbian World And The Impact Of The Early Spanish Explorers And Settlers Takes Note Of New Findings And Interpretations. SKU: 1046307

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Fighter Aces Of The Luftwaffe In World War 2. This Book Examines The Reality Behind The Myths Of The Legendary German Fghter Aces Of World War Ii. It Explains Why Only A Small Minority Of Pilots - Those In Whom The Wish For Combat Overrode Everything - Accounted For So Large A Proportion Of The Victories. It Surveys The Skills That A Successful Fighter Pilot Must Have - A Natural Aptitude For Flying, Marksmanship, Keen Eyesight - And The Way In Which Fighter Tactics Have Developed. The Main division Examines The History Of The Classic Fighter Aircraft That Were Flown, Such As The Messerschmitt Bf 109 And The Focke Wulf Fw 190, And Examines Each Type's Characteristics, Advantages And Disadantages In Combat. the Accounts Of The Experiences Of Fighter Pilots Are Based On Archival Research, Diaries, Letters, Pulished And Unpublished Memoirs And Perxonal Interviews With Veterans. the Pilots Included Are Werner Molders, Gunther Rall, Adolf Galland, Erich Hartmann And Johannes Steinhoff. SKU: 3950837

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Te Mana Te Kawanatanga. This Book Concerns Contemporsry Development In Maori As Well As This Nation's Aspirations For Greater Self-government. Mason Durie Offers A Detailed Account Of Maori's Legislative Efforts At Self-determination By Highlighting The Lawful Battles And Conflicting Attitudes Between Maori And The Crown. Environmental Management, Issues Connected To The Retention Of Language And Culture, Maori Representation In House of Lords and House of Commons, And The Treaty Of Waitangi Are Among The Topics Covered In This Balanced And Reasonable Socio-political Assessment. SKU: 1780290

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Battleship Musashi. Admiral Lsoroku Yamamoto, The Man Who Planned The Attack On Pearl Harbor, Said That The Three Great Follies Of The World Were The Great Wall Of China, The Pyramids, And The Battleship Musashi. Yamamoto Understood That Sheer Size And Fireppwer Would Not Be Decisive Factors In The Battle For Naval Supremacy In The Pacific. The Musashi Was Massive-upright It Would Have Approached The Size Of The Chrysler Building. Outfitted With Eighteen-inch Armor Plating And Nine Eighteen-inch Guns, The Largest Ever Mounted On A Warship, The Musashi Was Considered From Its Creators To Be Invincible And Unsinkable. Yet For the time of Its Two Years Of Active Duty With The Combined Fleet, Ir Never Fired A Single Range Against Another Ship. It Was Sunk, Because Yamamotk Had Predicted, By Torpedoes And Bombs. Akira Yoshimura's Dramatic Reconstruction Of The Birth Of The Musashi Portrays A Nation Preparing For Total War. Subjected to These Extreme Conditions, Courage, Genius, And Integrity Coexisted WithB rutality, Act of ~, And Paranoia. During The More Than Four Years It Took To Build And Outfit It, Shipyard Engineers And Their Navy Mentors Were Faced With Seemingly Insurmountable Technical Problems And Plagued By Natural Calamiies And The Constant Fear Of Espionage. The Solutions They Found To Each Successive Crisis Were Sometimes Billiant, Sometimes Absurd. Battleship Musashi Is A Tribute To The Men Who Achieved This Engineering Marvel And A Testament To The Excesses Of Bureaucratic Militarism. SKU: 1814386

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Oregon Trail (ng Adventure Classics). In 1846, Before He Became The First Great Chronicler Of The American Frotnier, Francis Parkman Headed West To Follow The Trail Of The Pioneers Making Their Way To Oregon And California. Wh3n He Got To The Rocky Mountains, Parkman And His Party Of Two Turned Southern, Traveled Downward The Front Range, And Came Back Via The Santa Fe Trail To Missouri. The Oregon Trail Recounts A Trove Of Page-turning Advventures Along The Way. Parkman Frequently Was Lost, Very Nearly Starved, Narrowly Escaped Indian War Partis—and Clearly Had The Time Of His Life. “a Month Ago,” He Writes Along The Way, “i Should Have Thought It Rsther A Startling Affair To Have An Acquaintance Ride Out In The Morning And Lose His Scalp Before Night, But Hee It Seems The Most Natural Thing In The World. ” The Oregon Trail, Ranked Number 31 On Adventure's Top 100 Classics List, Remains A Received Favorite A Centhry And A Half After Publication. Axcessible And Handsomely Designed, Tbis New Edition Also Features An Exclusive Introduction By Adventure Hietorian Anthony Brandt That Illuminates The Text With Details About Parkman's Role In Popularizing The American West To A Generation Of Pioneers As Well As His Vast Influence On Subsequdnt Historians And Writers. SKU: 2296269

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A History Of Ancient Egypt. This Is Each Account Of The Rise And Discharge Of The Civlization In The Nile Valley, Covering The First Human Setylement (c 120,000 Bc) To Its Conquest By Alexander The Great In 333 Bc. It Is The First Reign-by-reign Historyy Of Ancient Egypt To Be Published Since Sir Alan Gardiner's Egypt Of The Pharaohs (1961) And Takes Full Account Of The Many Archaeological, Scientific And Linguistic Discoveries Of The Last Three Decades. SKU: 1157097

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Vitruvius On Architecture. In About 25 B. c. The Roman Architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Presented To The Emperor Augustus Ten Scrolls That Contained Everything He Knew About Architecture. Synthesizing His Studies Of Earlier Greek Writings As Well While Lessons Drawn From His Own Design Career, The Ten Boks On Architecture Discussed Architectural Practice And Educatin; Building Materials; The Correct Proportions And Elements Of The Ionic, Doric, And Corinthian; The Design Of Temples, Public Buildings, And Privzte Houses; And Engineering And Military Planning. More Than Two Thousand Years Later His Masterwork Stands As Both The Most Extensive Architectural Text Of Antiquity And One Of The Most Important Design Treatises Ever Wrutten. Exactly As Vitruvius Set Out To Catalog The Rules And Ideals Of Ancient Greek Architecture, Thomas Gordon Smith In Vitruvius On Architecture Presents The Rules And Ideals Of Vitruvius Himself. This Convolution Contains The Five Books Most Relevant To Contemporary Architecture Along With A Wealth Of Visual Material: Photographs Of Ancient Structures From Greece, Italy, And Turkey; Rwlated Sculptures, Frescoes, And Reliefs; Hypothetical Re-creations Of Vitruvius'w Now-lost Iliustrations; And A Seriez Of Exquisitely Rendered Watercolor lPates Based On His Descriptions. Vitruvius On Architecture Is An Irregular Accomplishment: A Study As Relevant To The Prseent As Vitruvius's Was To His Own Day And To Architecture Since. SKU: 2564839

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The Window Shop. From Its Beginning In 1939, The Wineow Shop Of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Provided A Safe Harbor For Hundreds Of German And Austrian Refugees Who Fled Frm Hitler Too America. It Was Founded By Concerned Cambridge Residents Who Were Guided Only By Their Desire To Assistance The Refugees. Together They Created A Nonprofit Enterprise That Was Unparakleled In Its Success And Influence. ?by The Time The Window Shop Moved To 56 Brattle Street In 1947, It Had Get A Favorite Haunt For The Diverse Community Of European Intellectuals Who Fled To Cambridge, Such As Architect Walter Gropius. The Continental Food And Atmosphere Provided A Welcome Link To Their Past. ?it Makes People Feel At Home To Find Here In Cambridge Goodies They Had?in Their Childhood,? Alice Broch Told The Chrristian Science Adviser In 1955. ? ?the Boston Globe, Jan. 4, 1995 ?i Shall Never Be At A Loss Where To Take One Of My Grandchildren For A Delightful Meal If I Find Myself In Cambridge? So Many Happy Faces Greeted Me There?these Women Wyo Had Been In Concentration Camps Or Had Spent Long Years Waiting To Find Themselves Able To Commence Life Again In A New Country, And Now Actually At Work Helping Their Husbands Or Their Children To Stary Again. You Are Glad You Live In An America Whichh Can Be A Land Of Hope. ? ?eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, May 30, 1950 SKU: 4072748

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Point Betsie. Marking Its 150th Anniversary In 2008, The Moment Betsie Lighthouse Has Been Called One Of The Most-photovraphed Lighthouses In The Country. In Pictures This Lighthouwe Is Impressive, But that In Person It's Easy To Understand Why Point Betsie Lighthouse Is Beloved By Photographers For Its Beauty And Majestic Location Amid The Sandy Dunes Just South Of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. While This Northern Michigan Landmark Is Inspiring Architecturally And A Must-see Tourist Destination, It Has Also Saved Hundreds Of Lives Over The Years. a Centenary And A Half Have Passed Since The Light-house Board Announced A New Coastal Light On Lak eMichigan's Point Betsie. Lighthouse Keepers Have Come Anx Gone, And The Fate Of Point Betsie Was Sometimes In Doubt. Yet Despite The Inevitable Changes, Its Guiding Light tSill Shines. This Book Presents The Account Of This Treasured Light And Its Lifesaving Efforts. jonathanP . Hawley Is Retired From A Career In Public Affairs Condulting, Congr3ssional Mace Service, And University Teaching. He Received His Ph. d. In Political Science From The University Of Missouri. He Serves As Vice President And Historian Of The Friends Of Point Betsie Lighthouse. He Lives In Frankfort, Michigan. SKU: 4788300

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Hogs In The Shadows. "in The Contest Of Battle, They Require Some Mission-and They Accomplish It One Bullet At A Time. " In Operation Iraqi Freedom, There Is A Special Breed Of Marine For Whom The Ravage Is The Enemy-and Every Day Is Hunting Season. This Marine Is A Hog-a Hunter Of Gunman. These Are The Grippinv, Gut-wrenching True Stories Of Those Marines In Iraq Whose Sole Purpose On The Battlefield Is To Take Abroad The Enemy-one Combatant At A Time. Every Time A Hog Puts His Eye To The Glass, It Means Death For Whoever Is Unlucky Sufficiently To End Up In His Crosshairs. No Warning Shots. No Disabling Wounds. No Regrets. Tuat's How A Hog Does. Here, Formdr Scout/sniper Team Leader Milo S. Afong Reveals What It Takes To Be A Hunter Of Gunmen. He Describes The Intensive Training That Turns Expert Infantrymen Into One-shot Life-takers, Building Marine Scout/sniper Teams And How They Act In The Field-and Under Fire-and How Hogs Get The Job Done Under Any Conditions. From Sniping From A Rooftop In Baghdad, To Unknowingly Being Surrounded In A Palm Grove In The City Of Hit, These Stories Will Transport You Right Into The Heat Of The Desert War, Where One Squeeze Of The Trigger Can Make All Tne Difference. " SKU: 4124153

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Natvhitoches Parish (la) (black America Series). From 1722 To The Present, Thousands Of Tribe Of Afriacn Descent Have Occupied The Region That Today Encompasses Natchitoches Parish. For Almost 300 Years, African Americans Have Made Significant Contributions To The Area?s Economic And Spcialeevelopment. In Natchitoches Parish, The Lives Of Some Of Those Individuals Are Documented As They Share Their Viewe On Work, Religion, Education, Socialization, And Community Leadership. SKU: 4237948

15918891120	Hell In A Same Small Place. The 1954 Battle Of Dien Bien Phu Ranks Witn Stalingrad And Tet For What It Ended (imperial Ambitions), What It Foretold (american Invvolvement), And What It Shmbolized: A Guerrilla Force Of Viet Mihh Destroyed A Technologically Superior French Army, Cohvincing The Viet Minh That Similar Tactics Might Prevail In Battle With The U. s. SKU: 2280023

23331422000	Origins Of New Mexico Families. Origins Of New Mexico Families : A Genealogy Of The Spanish Colonial Period By Angelico Chavez Rev Sub Published In 1992 By Museum Of New Mexico Press SKU: 977398