Liveright, February 2020. Hardcover. It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free black people found themselves regularly stopped, questioned, and even kidnapped. Restrictions on movement before Emancipation carried over..... More
Univ of Washington Pr, March 1981. First Edition. Cloth. Brown cloth with black lettering in dust jacket with darkened margins. Black end pages. Clean & sound. More
Verso, May 2017. First Edition. Cloth. Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history. In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy..... More
National Travel Club, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Black cloth with gold lettering & decoration. Dust jacket missing. Heavy wear to boards in several spots. Likewise scarp marks to back board & fading. Heavy darkening to end pages especially at gutter. Decent starter copy with sound binding & unmarked text. More
Pegasus, July 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few foreign journalists to have witnessed the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea, having entered the country undercover, posing as a university professor with a group of students..... More
Verso, February 2020. Paper Back. The fate of poor and working-class African Americans-who are unquestionably represented among neoliberalism's victims-is inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans Reed contends that the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else is obstructed, in part, by..... More
Anchor Books, February 2020. Paper Back. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK..... More
William Morrow Paperbacks, February 2020. Paper Back. The astonishing true story of the tiger that claimed a record 437 human lives "Gripping." --Nature - "Thrilling. Fascinating. Exciting." --Wall Street Journal - "Riveting. Haunting." --Scientific American Nepal, c. 1900: A lone tigress began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the..... More
Stackpole Books, October 1999. First American. Cloth. From 1799 to 1819 more than 1,000 pages of British naval news and views were published every year in The Naval Chronicle, including action reports, intelligence of foreign naval matters, and biographies of officers. In short, it was the most important original account..... More
Casemate Publishers, March 2010. Hardcover. Joseph Pilyushin, a top Red Army sniper in the ruthless fight against the Germans on the Eastern Front, was an exceptional soldier and has a remarkable story to tell. His firsthand account of his wartime service gives a graphic insight into his lethal skill with..... More
Random House, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, November 2004. Trade Paperback. A masterly look at the value and limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war from the premier military historian of our time, John Keegan. Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerable endeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraph and..... More
University of Wisconsin Press, October 2003. Stapled Soft Cover. What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religion? How did workers perceive the effects of the New Order in the workplace? What were the cultural..... More
Stackpole Books, October 2004. Trade Paperback. Sequel to the well-regarded Panzer Aces Chapters on Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Kurt Knispel, Karl Nicolussi-Leck, and other great commanders With the same drama and excitement of the first book, Franz Kurowski relates the combat careers of six more decorated German Panzer officers. Extensively researched..... More
Stackpole Books, June 2005. Trade Paperback. Part two of the defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers Written by the division's former chief of staff Volume two continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before..... More
Stackpole Books, May 2005. Trade Paperback. The defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiersWritten by the division's former chief of staffVolume one details all aspects of the division's history with a balanced mix of both tactical and strategic accounts, including the creation and training of these teenage warriors and..... More
Newmarket Pr, 1984. Trade Paperback. Includes 120 excerpts from speeches, sermons, and writings, and chronology. More
New Amer Library Classics, January 2000. Mass Market PaperBack. Martin Luther King's classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement--including his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963. "There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to..... More
Replica Books, June 1963. Trade Paperback. Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In "The Real War," the author has fused exhaustive research and creative brilliance with brevity and precision. Thus we have in one volume the war transformed into literature - an understandable..... More
Penguin Books, October 1988. Trade Paperback. In "The Mask of Command" John Keegan explores four different leadership styles and how they reflect our times. Alexander the Great is the "heroic" leader, risking his life alongside his men. Wellington is the "anti-hero"--a gentleman, prepared to fight but without Alexander's theatrics. Ulysses..... More
Pen and Sword, February 2011. Hardcover. Sir Samuel White Baker is one of those larger-than-life heroes only the Victorians could invent. For too long, the British Empire has been denigrated and equated with arrogance at best and racial bigotry at worst. Samuel Baker transcends that. He was an explorer and..... More
Plume, February 2003. Trade Paperback. More
