Prior owner's name on free front endpage. 100 pages. Genealogists and people with roots in the San Antonio missions area may find useful clues to family history in this extensive study of land ownership along the banks of the Rio San Antonio. View More...
One quotation is highlighted. Very minor corner curl. . Black and white illus., bibliog., maps, index.. 1.15 x 9.23 x 6.08 Inches. 608 pages. This definitive account of the Gulf War relates the previously untold story of the U.S. war with Iraq in the early 1990s. The author follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts. View More...
Full number line.. 256 pages. WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a Westerner? What is the Western experience and, by extension, what makes up the Western soul? In Lilac Moon, Sharon Butala inspires, delights and challenges us to think about the West in fresh ways. Beginning with a day in the life of the real West, she transports us to her Saskatchewan ranch, where a soft lilac moon lights the vast rolling landscape. Then, in a series of wide-ranging chapters that ponder the question "What makes a Westerner?" she considers the myths, the history, the peoples of the three prairie provinces.From the... View More...
Color Illustrations. 64 pages. Warrior Series, No. 5. The collapse of Roman rule in Britain was not so much a sudden catastrophe as a long and drawn-out decline. The 'Celtic' Britons retreated gradually to the highland areas of Wales, Cornwall and the south-west of Scotland. Control of the fertile eastern lowlands was lost to warriors of Germanic origin who migrated from the Continent. These Germanic conquerors have become known to history as the 'Anglo-Saxons'. They were to dominate the lowland zone of Britain until their final defeat at Hastings in 1066. This title gives an insight into the ... View More...
144 pages. Hist Atlas. This atlas examines the history of North America's three principle nations, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, from their colonial origins to the formations of the North American Free Trade Association. The survey follows the rise of the U.S. to superpower status and assesses the relation of the three nations as a whole to the rest of the world. Full color. View More...
320 pages. A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist exposes one of World War II's darkest secrets: that Churchill tricked Hitler into invading Russia by setting up a phony peace between Germany and Britain. View More...
Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 374 pages. In this masterly work, Lester D. Langley compares the political and social histories of three revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish -- American struggle for independence. Langley explores the characteristics that distinguished each upheaval, and he shows how the legacies of the revolutionary age affect virtually every modern political issue. View More...
464 pages. Roadside History Series. This book guides visitors and residents along the state's highways and through its past to reveal the key figures and events that have made Texas what it is today. View More...
Full number line.. 0.65 x 8.32 x 5.54 Inches. 210 pages. Highly acclaimed military strategist and writer Ralph Peters challenges America's defense establishment and national leadership with startling insights and no-holds-barred criticism. His radical assessment of the future of conflict and the kinds of enemies we will face has already excited international controversy and influenced policy. Peters identifies a "new warrior class" and a new culture of conflict that could undo America on the battlefields of the future, as seen in the events of September 11, 2001. He broadly reinter... View More...
0.5 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches. 107 pages. The veteran journalist and columnist examines the circumstances and consequences of what he sees as serious missteps and misperceptions on the part of President Clinton and his administration. View More...
Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover.I Gray boards with dark blue spine imprinted in gold with title and author. llustrated endpapers Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 495 pages. Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of ci... View More...
383 pages. An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of the exploits of infamous Caribbean buccaneers.In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates ? former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves ? this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Baham... View More...
