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After the Warby Richard MariusISBN 1558532730 (1-55853-273-0)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Against the Dayby Thomas PychonISBN 159420120X (1-59420-120-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Day'Book summary:Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.[via]With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
-Thomas Pynchon
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 1588274659 (1-58827-465-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 159308143X (1-59308-143-X)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1598184024 (1-59818-402-4)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1568495854 (1-56849-585-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1582019703 (1-58201-970-3)
Hardcover, Classic Books - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1588274640 (1-58827-464-0)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1598183680 (1-59818-368-0)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1588274659 (1-58827-465-9)
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- The Age of Innocence: ISBN 1593080743 (1-59308-074-3)
Allied Aviation of World War I: A Pictorial History of Allied Aviators and Aircraft of the Great Warby Hugh W. CowinISBN 1841762261 (1-84176-226-1)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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The American Army in France, 1917-1919by James G. HarbordISBN 1601050216 (1-60105-021-6)
Softcover, Scholars Book Shelf
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American Black Chamberby Herbert YardleyISBN 1591149894 (1-59114-989-4)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Black Chamber'Book summary:During the 1920s Herbert O. Yardley was chief of the first peacetime cryptanalytic organization in the United States, the ancestor of today's National Security Agency. Funded by the U.S. Army and the Department of State and working out of New York, his small and highly secret unit succeeded in breaking the diplomatic codes of several nations, including Japan. The decrypts played a critical role in U.S. diplomacy. Despite its extraordinary successes, the Black Chamber, as it came to known, was disbanded in 1929. President Hoover's new Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson refused to continue its funding with the now-famous comment, "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." In 1931 a disappointed Yardley caused a sensation when he published this book and revealed to the world exactly what his agency had done with the secret and illegal cooperation of nearly the entire American cable industry. These revelations and Yardley's right to publish them set into motion a conflict that continues to this day: the right to freedom of expression versus national security. In addition to offering an exposé on post-World War I cryptology, the book is filled with exciting stories and personalities. [via]
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The Anti-Christ: Fragments from a Shattering Mindby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 1840680938 (1-84068-093-8)
Softcover, Creation Books
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The Antichristby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anthony M. LudoviciISBN 1573928321 (1-57392-832-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Antichrist'Book summary:The Christian concept of a god-the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit-is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world... In him nothingness is deified, and the will to nothingness is made holySee Sharp Press; Tuscon, AZ -from The Anti-Christ He's one of the most debated thinkers of the 19th century: Nietzsche and his works have been by turns vilified, lauded, and subjected to numerous contradictory interpretations, and yet he remains a figure of profound import, and his works a necessary component of a well-rounded education. The Anti-Christ, first published in German in 1895, is absolutely vital to any meaningful understanding of Nietzsche the man and Nietzsche the philosopher. An insightful and entertaining indictment of Christianity, it has enraged and inspired generations of readers, and this 1920 translation, by H. L. Mencken, considered the best available, is almost as controversial as the work itself, highlighting the darkest side of Mencken's cynicism. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Nietzsche's The Use and Abuse of History. German psychologist and philosopher FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was appointed special professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the precocious age of 24, but soon found himself dissatisfied with academic life and created an alternative intellectual society for himself among friends including composer Richard Wagner, historian Jakob Burckhardt, and theologian Franz Overbeck. Among his philosophical works are Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Ecce Homo. [via]
Armies in the Balkans 1914-18by Nigel Thomas, Dusan Babac, Darko PavlovicISBN 184176194X (1-84176-194-X)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: Red Armyby David Bullock, Peter Sarson, Andrei AksenovISBN 1841765457 (1-84176-545-7)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: White and Alliedby David Bullock, A. Deryabin, Andrei AksenovISBN 1841765449 (1-84176-544-9)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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The Army in My Time: The Story of Bacon's Rebellion and Its Leaderby J.F.C. FullerISBN 1601050240 (1-60105-024-0)
Softcover, Scholars Book Shelf
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Battle of Jutlandby Geoffrey Martin BennettISBN 1840222042 (1-84022-204-2)
Hardcover, Wordsworth Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle of Jutland'Book summary:At the end of May 1916, a chance encounter with Admiral Hipper's battlecruisers has enabled Beatty to lead the German Battle Fleet into the jaws of Jellicoe's greatly superior force, but darkness had allowed Admiral Scheer to extricate his ships from a potentially disastrous situation. Though inconclusive, at the Battle of Jutland the German Fleet suffered so much damage that it made no further attempt to challenge the Grand Fleet, and the British blockade remained unbroken. Captain Bennett has used sources previously unavailable to historians in his reconstruction of this controversial battle, including the papers of Vice-Admiral Harper explaining why his official record of the battle was not published until 1927, and the secret "Naval Staff Appreciation" of 1922 whose criticism were so scathing that it was never issued to the Fleet. Also included are numerous battle plans, photographs and an introduction by Bennett's son. [via]
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The Battle of Loosby Philip WarnerISBN 1840222298 (1-84022-229-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Battle of the Marneby George Herbert PerrisISBN 1601050526 (1-60105-052-6)
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The Battlefields of the First World War: From the First Battle of Ypres to Passchendaeleby Peter BartonISBN 1841197459 (1-84119-745-9)
Hardcover, Constable & Robinson Ltd
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The British Army And the Continent, 1904-1914by J. E. TylerISBN 1601050186 (1-60105-018-6)
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Building the Kaiser's Navy: The Imperial Navy Office and German Industry in the Tirpitz Era, 1890-1919by Gary E. WeirISBN 1557509298 (1-55750-929-8)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Bull Halseyby Elmer Belmont PotterISBN 1591146917 (1-59114-691-7)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bull Halsey'Book summary:Applauded by the public and revered by the men who served under him, Adm. William F. Halsey was one of the leading American personalities of World War II. His reputation as a no-holds-barred fighter and his tough-guy expression earned him the nickname "Bull," yet he was also known for showing genuine compassion toward his men and inspiring them to great feats in the Pacific. Originally disclaiming, the praise heaped on him, Halsey eventually came to believe in the swashbuckling legend that surrounded him, and his conduct became increasingly controversial. Naval historian E. B. Potter, who established his reputation with an award-winning biography of Chester W. Nimitz, gets behind the stereotype of this national hero and describes Halsey at his best and worst, including his controversial actions at Leyte Gulf. To write this book Potter had full access to Halsey's family and to the admiral's private papers and provides detail of Halsey's youth and career before the war. First published in 1985, it remains the definitive study. [via]
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Charlotte Sometimesby Penelope Farmer, Chris ConnorISBN 1590172213 (1-59017-221-3)
Hardcover, Random House Distribution childrens
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Cherish the Dreamby Jodi ThomasISBN 1557738815 (1-55773-881-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Dardanelles Campaign: First Periodby Henry W. NevinsonISBN 1601050852 (1-60105-085-2)
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Depthsby Henning MankellISBN 1595580891 (1-59558-089-1)
Hardcover, New Pr
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Dolphin and Snipe Aces of World War 1by Norman FranksISBN 1841763179 (1-84176-317-9)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Doughboysby Gary MeadISBN 1585673234 (1-58567-323-4)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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The Doughboys: America and the First World Warby Gary MeadISBN 1585670618 (1-58567-061-8)
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The End of Laissez-Faire: The Economic Consequences of the Peaceby John Maynard KeynesISBN 1591022681 (1-59102-268-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Laissez-Faire: The Economic Consequences of the Peace'Book summary:John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was one of the most influential economists of the first half of the twentieth century. His theory of government stimulation of the economy through deficit spending influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" administration and inspired his most famous work, General Theory of Employment, Interest and money (1935-36). In the End of Laissez-Faire (1926), Keynes presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. Though he agrees in principle that the marketplace should be free of government interference, he suggests that government can play a constructive role in protecting individuals from the worst harms of capitalism's cycles, especially as concerns unemployment. When the Great Depression struck a few years later, this work seemed very prescient. Keynes first earned widespread prominence immediately following World War I, when he published The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919. This book gained a good deal of notoriety because of its withering portraits of both French premier Georges Clemenceau and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Keynes criticized the Allied victors for signing a treaty that would have ruinous consequences for Europe, if not modified as he suggested Unfortunately, few leaders appreciated Keynes's criticisms, and he saw his worst fears realized in the rise of Hitler and the devastation of World War II. Keynes's brilliant mind and lucid writing are evident on every page. Both of these works are still well worth reading for his profound knowledge of economics. [via]
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The First World War: The War to End All Warsby Geoffrey Jukes, Michael Hickey, Hew StrachanISBN 1841767387 (1-84176-738-7)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Flying Guns: World War I and Its Aftermath 1914-32by Anthony G. Williams, Emmanuel GustinISBN 1840373962 (1-84037-396-2)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were Thereby Max Arthur, Martin GilbertISBN 1592285708 (1-59228-570-8)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Fourth Horseman: One Man's Secret Mission to Wage the Great War in Americaby Robert KoenigISBN 1586483722 (1-58648-372-2)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabiaby Lawrence JamesISBN 1569248613 (1-56924-861-3)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia'Book summary:T.E. Lawrence was a true scholar, a man of irresistible charm who genuinely cared for the Arabs. But he was also a shocking fabricator who used and embellished his own legend. Controversial and provocative, The Golden Warrior overturns the mythology that surrounds this enigmatic man. [via]
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The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921by John H. MorrowISBN 1560982381 (1-56098-238-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Groupe De Combat 12, Les Cigognes: France's Ace Fighter Group in World War Iby Jon Guttman, Tony HolmesISBN 1841767530 (1-84176-753-0)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Gurps Who's Who 2by Phil MastersISBN 1556344074 (1-55634-407-4)
Softcover, Psi
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The Haunted Bookshopby Christopher MorleyISBN 1587155656 (1-58715-565-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Hellsing 7by Kohta Hirano, Wilbert Lacuna, Duane JohnsonISBN 159307302X (1-59307-302-X)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hellsing 7'Book summary:The war between three armies of vampires, humans, and those in between is in full swing. The Hellsing organization is embattled as London is falling to Nazi vampire forces, turning the city's citizens into rivers of blood and a population of ghouls. It looks like it might be the end of Sir Integral Wingates Hellsing and her henchman, Walter. But what's this? The Vatican? But that means the Vatican is unprotected. If you haven't figured it out yet, Earth is in chaos of a World War like no other. New forces will rise up, surprises of undead power will surge forth, guns will blaze, and blades will sing. There's no telling how this will end, as Hellsing clamors forward with a seething wit and a frantic pace, and style that passes beyond gothic grace. [via]
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The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed Historyby Erik DurschmiedISBN 1559705728 (1-55970-572-8)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History'Book summary:What if it hadn't rained at Agincourt in 1415 and the French had, as expected, won the day? What if one of Napoleon's most trusted commanders had spiked Wellington's guns with a handful of nails at Waterloo in 1815, providing his emperor with victory? What if Hitler hadn't paused for three vital days during his invasion of France in May 1940, allowing the British Expeditionary Force precious time to evacuate from Dunkirk? Moments like these, argues Erik Durschmied, provide the hinge factor in history: examples of stupidity, chance, or accident that have irrevocably changed the outcome of human history, for better or worse.
Drawing on his extensive experience as a war correspondent with the BBC and CBS, Durschmied moves from ancient Troy and the Trojan Horse to Iraq and Operation Desert Storm, offering a persuasive and at times wry account of the ways in which chance affects the unfolding of history. Recounting 17 key moments in human conflict and warfare, The Hinge Factor is not just an amusing meditation on what might have been; it is also a poignant and vivid account of the brutality and stupidity of war. More than just an account of accidents in history, this is a thoughtful and absorbing book. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Iron And Steel in the German Inflation, 1916-1923by Gerald D. FeldmanISBN 1597401285 (1-59740-128-5)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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Italian Arditi: Elite Assault Troops 1917-20by Angelo Pirocchi, Velimir VuksicISBN 1841766860 (1-84176-686-0)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Jutland: An Analysis of the Fightingby John Campbell, N. J. M. CampbellISBN 1558217592 (1-55821-759-2)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Jutland: The German Perspective A New View of the Great Battle, 31 May 1916by V. E. TarrantISBN 1557504083 (1-55750-408-3)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Kissing Kinby Elswyth ThaneISBN 1568494777 (1-56849-477-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russiaby Greg KingISBN 1559722118 (1-55972-211-8)
Hardcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Last-Gentleman-Of-War: The Raider Exploits of the Cruiser Emdenby R. K. LochnerISBN 1557505381 (1-55750-538-1)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabiaby Michael AsherISBN 1585671428 (1-58567-142-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia'Book summary:Thomas Edward Lawrence was born illegitimate in 1888, "the son of unmarried parents who had vanished from one life to recreate themselves in another." (His father left four daughters, a marriage, and a hefty inheritance in Dublin to start a new life in England with the woman who'd been his children's governess.) Lawrence matured into an elusive man whose shifting personas baffled admirers and detractors alike. Explorer and Arabian scholar Michael Asher, himself familiar with the desert lands in which Lawrence made his military reputation during the First World War, accepts him as a complex bundle of contradictions. The story of this romantic Englishman's involvement in the Arab revolt against Turkey is, as always, a gripping physical, political, and spiritual adventure, and Asher retells it well. The book's most noteworthy achievement, however, is the balanced assessment of Lawrence as "a real man with a real blend of strengths and weaknesses ... whose inner lack of strong identity allowed him to be anything and anyone he felt others needed him to be." Biography purists may be put off by Asher's first-person intrusions into the narrative (frequently to retrace Lawrence's most famous journeys or to consider the veracity of incidents Lawrence described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but they serve to anchor a near-mythic existence in the geographic realities of the region he loved. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Light Heartby Elswyth ThaneISBN 1568494769 (1-56849-476-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Lighthousesby Virginia Woolf, Valerie E. KenneyISBN 1586631489 (1-58663-148-9)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empireby Peter HopkirkISBN 1568361270 (1-56836-127-0)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirk skillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and describes the exploits of the secret agents on both sides-disguised variously as archaeologists, traders, and circus performers-as they sought to foment or foil the uprising and determine the outcome of World War I. [via]More editions of Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire:
Luxury Fleet: The Imperial German Navy, 1888-1918by Holger H. HerwigISBN 1573922862 (1-57392-286-2)
Softcover, Humanity Books
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 1573920487 (1-57392-048-7)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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The Military Unpreparedness of the United States: A History of American Land Forces from Colonial Times Until June 1, 1915by Frederic Louis HuidekoperISBN 1601050798 (1-60105-079-8)
Softcover, Scholars Book Shelf
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The Millionaire's Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Powerby Marc WortmanISBN 1586483285 (1-58648-328-5)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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Mons Star: The British Expeditionary Force, 5 August-22 November 1918by David AscoliISBN 1841581275 (1-84158-127-5)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Mons: The Retreat to Victoryby John TerraineISBN 1840222433 (1-84022-243-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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My Island Homeby James Norman HallISBN 1566474485 (1-56647-448-5)
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Night and Dayby Virginia Woolf, Rachel WetzsteonISBN 1593082126 (1-59308-212-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night and Day'Book summary:[via]Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:A long neglected masterpiece, Night and Day reveals Virginia Woolfs mastery of the traditional English novel. With its classic comic structure, minutely observed characters, and delicate irony, Woolfs second novel has invited comparison to the works of Shakespeare, Mozart, and Jane Austen.
Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the lives of two friends, Katherine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. Katherine is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until she meets a possible avenue of escape in the person of Ralph Denham. Mary Datchet, on the other hand, represents an alternative to marriageshe has been to college, lives on her own, and finds fulfillment in working for the womens rights movement.
As the story dances delightfully among the novels brilliantly drawn characters, serious questions about the nature of romance arise. Is love real or illusory? Can love and marriage coexist? Is love necessary for happiness?Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.
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Observers and Navigators: And Other Non-Pilot Aircrew in the Rfc, Rnas and Rafby Jefford, C. G., Mbe, Ba, Raf RetdISBN 1840372753 (1-84037-275-3)
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Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Centuryby Philip HoareISBN 1559704721 (1-55970-472-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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As in his earlier work, Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant and Noel Coward: A Biography, Hoare proves himself to be an incisive social critic and a vigorous historian who illuminates the paradoxes of the recent past with insight and passion. But the real power of Oscar Wilde's Last Stand (that Hoare makes clear again and again) is its understanding that Wilde--social rebel and martyr to artistic and sexual freedom--remains, in so many ways, under attack by conservative social forces even today. --Michael Bronski END [via]
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The Ottoman Steam Navy, 1828-1923by Bernd Langensiepen, Ahmet Guleryuz, J. CooperISBN 1557506590 (1-55750-659-0)
Hardcover, Naval Institute Press
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Our Navy at Warby Josephus DanielsISBN 1601050399 (1-60105-039-9)
Softcover, Scholars Book Shelf
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Passchendaele: The Story behind the Tragic Victory of 1917by Philip WarnerISBN 1840222077 (1-84022-207-7)
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Pete Ellis : An Amphibious Warfare Prophet, 1880-1923by Merrill L. Bartlett, Dirk A. BallendorfISBN 1557500606 (1-55750-060-6)
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The Radetzky Marchby Joseph Roth, Nadine GordimerISBN 1585673269 (1-58567-326-9)
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 1574090151 (1-57409-015-1)
Hardcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Set before World War I, this enthralling novel pitches two amateur sailors against the secret forces of mighty Germany. Powers of deduction and navigational skills prove equally important in uncovering a plot that threatens personal as well as national security.
The enduring appeal of this book lies not only in its spellbinding and tangled drama, which matches any modern thriller in ingenuity and tension, but also in the hauntingly atmospheric backdrop provided by the fogbound seas and treacherous sands along the German North Sea coast. [via]
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The Russian Civil Warby Evan MawdsleyISBN 1841580643 (1-84158-064-3)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Shoot Straight, You Bastards!: The Truth behind the Killing of Breaker Morantby Nick BleszynskiISBN 174051081X (1-74051-081-X)
Softcover, Random House Australia
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The Shooting Partyby Isabel ColegateISBN 1582432228 (1-58243-222-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shooting Party'Book summary:It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and sporting rivalry, the ladies intrigued by the latest gossip and fashion. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect consummation of the pleasures afforded the privileged in Edwardian England. And yet it is not: the moral and social code of this group is not so secure as it appears. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of the animals, anger at the inequities of class --these forces are about to rise up and engulf the assured social peace, a peace that can last only a brief while longer. In imagining Sir Randolph's shooting party, wrote The Spectator, "Miss Colegate has found a perfect metaphor for the passing of a way of life." [via]
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Sixty Minutes for st Georgeby A FullertonISBN 1569472939 (1-56947-293-9)
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SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Airmen in World War 1by Jon Guttman, Tony HolmesISBN 1841767522 (1-84176-752-2)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Sparknotes a Farewell to Armsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 1586634208 (1-58663-420-8)
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Tales of Warby Darrell Schweitzer, DunsanyISBN 1592240410 (1-59224-041-0)
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Three Apples Fell from Heavenby Micheline Aharonian MarcomISBN 1573229156 (1-57322-915-6)
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Troublesby J.G. Farrell, John BanvilleISBN 1590170180 (1-59017-018-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troubles'Book summary:Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize
1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room, outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "the troubles."
Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel. [via]More editions of Troubles:
U.S. Battleship Operations in World War Iby Jerry W. JonesISBN 1557504113 (1-55750-411-3)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Great Livesby Bathroom Readers Hysterical SocietyISBN 1592230202 (1-59223-020-2)
Softcover, Advantage Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Great Lives'Book summary:Philo T. Farnsworth is not a household word despite the fact that he invented something found in most every household: television. Farnsworth is just one of hundreds of subjects in this hefty comic compendium that plumbs the depths in a survey of great lives. Readers also learn about Tsai Lun, the Chinese eunuch who invented paper and by extension, toilet paper. Other clever unknowns include the inventors of Velcro, Bakelite, and the microwave oven. Of course, not all of the great lives here are anonymous. The Fun with Heretics section includes Thomas Paine and Rousseau, revealing some unexpected peculiarities. Liberace, Pancho Villa, and Freud happily coexist in this sometimes raunchy romp. Among the topics? Philosophers Who Got Killed, Child Geniuses (and its evil twin, High School Dropouts ), and much more.[via]More editions of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Great Lives:
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into HistoryISBN 157145697X (1-57145-697-X)
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Againby Bathroom Readers Hysterical SocietyISBN 1592232612 (1-59223-261-2)
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The Us Army of World War 1by Mark Henry, Stephen WalshISBN 1841764868 (1-84176-486-8)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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The War in the Trenchesby Alan LloydISBN 1840222379 (1-84022-237-9)
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The War of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict And the Descent of the Westby Niall FergusonISBN 1594201005 (1-59420-100-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict And the Descent of the West'Book summary:Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing.
From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-eating better, growing taller, and living longer? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Niall Ferguson-one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People"-masterfully examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity.
On a quest that takes him from the Siberian steppe to the plains of Poland, from the streets of Sarajevo to the beaches of Okinawa, Ferguson reveals an age turned upside down by economic volatility, multicultural communities torn apart by the irregularities of boom and bust, an era poisoned by the idea of irreconcilable racial differences, and a struggle between decaying old empires and predatory new states. Who won the war of the world? We tend to assume it was the West. Some even talk of the American century. But for Ferguson, the biggest upshot of twentieth-century upheaval was the decline of Western dominance over Asia.
A work of revelatory interpretive power, The War of the World is Niall Ferguson's masterwork. [via]
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With the New Army on the Somme: My Second Year of the Warby Frederick PalmerISBN 1601050658 (1-60105-065-8)
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With the Battle Cruisersby Filson YoungISBN 1841581267 (1-84158-126-7)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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World War Iby Sarah ClarkISBN 1557345988 (1-55734-598-8)
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World War I Trench Warfare (2): 1916-18by Stephen Bull, Adam HookISBN 1841761982 (1-84176-198-2)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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World War One: German Armyby Stephen BullISBN 1574882783 (1-57488-278-3)
Hardcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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