University Press of Mississippi, November 1995. Trade Paperback. The late African American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories are all..... More

Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 2009. Hardcover. For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil..... More

William Morrow & Company, September 2013. Trade Paperback. An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disasters From the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of..... More

Oxford University Press, November 1987. Paper Back. Few historical subjects are so emotion-laden as the Third Reich, and few have generated such general interest. The extermination of the Jews has, understandably, commanded considerable attention from historians and the general public, but this preoccupation with Nazi anti-Semitism has led people to..... More

MerwinAsia, August 2015. Trade Paperback. This is a collection of memoirs by more than fifty Chinese who as young people during the rule of Mao Zedong were rusticated to Hainan Island to clear the jungle for rubber plantations. The stories tell of suffering, hardship and disillusionment, but also of joys..... More

Oxford University Press-India, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Light edge wear and shelf wear on the cover. Binding tight. Text clean and clear. 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

Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More

Modern Library, January 1959. Cloth. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. More

Mouton De Gruyter, December 1968. Soft Cover. Covers chipped. More

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Trade Paperback. More

University of Texas Press, January 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted..... More