The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 Author: John B Lundstrom Publisher: Naval Institute Press () Edition: N/A Publication Date: 2005-07-01 Language: English Paperback: 624 pages ISBN-10: 1591144728 ISBN-13: 9781591144724 Book Description From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers through the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study. Picki...
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (Califoia Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 43) Author: Rachel Laudan Publisher: University of Califoia Press Edition: First Edition () Publication Date: 2015-04-03 Language: English Paperback: 488 pages ISBN-10: 0520286316 ISBN-13: 9780520286313 Book Description Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines―from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present―in this super...
Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945: The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism Author: by John W. Garver (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Edition: 1st edition Publication Date: 1988-09-8 Language: English Hardcover: 320 pages ISBN-10: 0195054326 ISBN-13: 9780195054323 Product details During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945, the Chinese people suffered great degradation at the hands of the Japanese. The spectacle of China’s debasement as well as the very real prospe...
You Only Want Me for My Mind and Other Bedtime Stories Author: by John Rynn (Author), John Corrigan (Author) Publisher: Glass House Books Edition: Illustrated edition Publication Date: 2013-06-27 Language: English Paperback: 200 pages ISBN-10: 192212060X ISBN-13: 9781922120601 Product details You Only Want Me for My Mind reveals a quirky boy bo not only with cerebral palsy but with an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles and mobilise people. In a world reminiscent of My Left Fo...
Chiang Kai Shek: China’s Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost Author: by Jonathan Fenby (Author) Publisher: Edition: N/A Publication Date: 2005-01-3 Language: English Paperback: 564 pages ISBN-10: 0786714840 ISBN-13: 9780786714841 Product details With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an inteational thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China’s generalissimo as it reev...
Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima (Marines in World War II Commemorative Series) Author: by Colonel Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.) (Author) Publisher: Edition: N/A Publication Date: 2013-12-12 Language: English Paperback: 56 pages ISBN-10: 1494462575 ISBN-13: 9781494462574 Product details Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions were exhaust...
The Companion to African Literatures Author: by Douglas Killam (Author) Publisher: James Currey Ltd Edition: N/A Publication Date: 2000-01-1 Language: English Hardcover: 352 pages ISBN-10: 0852555490 ISBN-13: 9780852555491 Product details The Companion to African Literatures is a comprehensive guide to work written in English or widely available in translation from other languages.Alphabetical format includes authors’ biographical details and major publications; selected i...
Vision To Legacy: The Great Clips Story Author: by Shelby Yastrow (Author), Steve LeBeau (Author) Publisher: Great Clips, Inc. Edition: N/A Publication Date: 2013-11-3 Language: English Hardcover: 312 pages ISBN-10: 098985213X ISBN-13: 9780989852135 Product details In less than thirty years Great Clips has achieved worldwide leadership in the hair salon industry, and its lead is widening every day. To have the largest and fastest growing brand in its entire industry is a remarkab...
Escape from the Pit: A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-1943 (Excelsior Editions) by: Renia Kukielka (Author) Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Publication Date: 2023/11/1 Language: English Print Length: 200 pages ISBN-10: 1438494777 ISBN-13: 9781438494777 Book Description At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well be the first of its kind. In her...
Inteational Solidarity in the Low Countries during the Twentieth Century: New Perspectives and Themes by: Kim Christiaens (Editor),John Nieuwenhuys (Editor),Charel Roemer (Editor)&0more Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg Publication Date: 2020/10/12 Language: English Print Length: 414 pages ISBN-10: 3110634317 ISBN-13: 9783110634310 Book Description During the 20th century, a variety of social movements and civil society groups stepped into the arena of inteational politics. This volume collec...
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