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A wartime log

By: Beltrone, Art and Lee

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Charlottesville, Va., Howell Press: c1994.

Seller ID: 680

ISBN: 0943231906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

With watercolors extracted from food can labels and paint brushes made from their own hair, downed WWII American flyers recreated their recollections of combat and experiences as prisoners of war in blank books provided by the YMCA. A WARTIME LOG compiles selections from some of these original books. 82 color paintings, 112 b&w photos and illustrations.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil a Savannah story

By: Berendt, John

Price: $6.99

Publisher: New York, Random House: c1994.

Seller ID: 1159

ISBN: 0679429220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil a Savannah story

By: Berendt, John

Price: $6.99

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1994

Seller ID: 1777

ISBN: 0679429220

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil a Savannah story

By: Berendt, John

Price: $8.99

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1994

Seller ID: 1900

ISBN: 0679429220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: why the Greeks Matter (Hinges of History)

By: Cahill, Thomas

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Anchor: 2004

Seller ID: 80

ISBN: 0385495544

Binding: Paperback

352 pages
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How Israel Lost The Four Questions

By: Cramer, Richard Ben

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2004

Seller ID: 81

ISBN: 0743250281

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

The ebbing support for Israel among Western Governments is a major landmark in the history of the last decade and is, without a doubt, an issue that has already influenced many international events. Richard Ben Cramer, who has a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Middle East, now presents readers with HOW ISRAEL LOST, a definitive study of the once-triumphant country that has failed in the eyes of the world. Cramer gets to the core of what is troubling so many Westerners about Israel: the contradiction between its humanistic foundation and its harsh treatment of the Palestinians. Since Isr...
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Area 51: the Dreamland Chronicles

By: Darlington, David

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: 1998

Seller ID: 249

ISBN: 0805060405

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

320 pages; Area 51, Dreamland, Groom Lake, Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, the Box: all refer to the top-secret research installation, located a hundred miles north of Las Vegas, which, for many, has come to stand for all that is shadowy and nefarious about the military-industrial-intelligence complex. Built under the direction of the CIA in the 1950s, the base served as the original test site for the U-2 spy plane and F-117 stealth fighter jet. In more recent years, Area 51 has spurred public interest from its role in the government's $30 billion "Black Budget," from legal claims of ...
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Savannah Spectres And Other Strange Tales

By: Debolt, Margaret Wayt

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Virginia Beach, VA, The Donning Company: 1984

Seller ID: 853

ISBN: 0898652014

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Ex-Library; Savannah and the Georgia coast, with its old plantations, huge ancient oaks hung with Spanish moss, and tales of pirates, wars, fevers, African voodoo, and other supernatural doings, has always been a legendary and tragically romantic place. In this book, antebellum estates, house museums, long-conquered forts, and restored townhouses are visited with a noted psychic investigator in order to learn what it is like to live and work in these places today. The result is some seventy stories, skillfully interwoven with the heritage of the area's colorful past, and illustrated with over ...
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Savannah Spectres And Other Strange Tales

By: Debolt, Margaret Wayt

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Norfolk, VA, The Donning Company: 1984

Seller ID: 2004

ISBN: 0898652014

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Savannah and the Georgia coast, with its old plantations, huge ancient oaks hung with Spanish moss, and tales of pirates, wars, fevers, African voodoo, and other supernatural doings, has always been a legendary and tragically romantic place. In this book, antebellum estates, house museums, long-conquered forts, and restored townhouses are visited with a noted psychic investigator in order to learn what it is like to live and work in these places today. The result is some seventy stories, skillfully interwoven with the heritage of the area's colorful past, and illustrated with over thirty photo...
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History in Urban Places The Historic Districts of the United States

By: Hamer, David

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio State University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2226

ISBN: 0814207901

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Ex-Library; "This is the first book devoted to an examination of the significance of historical districts from a historian's point of view." -Urban Studies Historic Districts in the United States now number over 8,000; the phenomenon of the Historic District has been of special interest to those concerned with historic preservation and town planning, but there has been no analysis of such districts' significance from a historian's point of view. History in Urban Places explores the connections between American urban history and historic preservation. A frequent criticism of historic di...
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace

By: Hayslip, Le Ly with Jay Wurts

Price: $2.99

Publisher: New York, Plume: 1990

Seller ID: 1595

ISBN: 0452271681

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A memoir of the Vietnam war from a woman's point of view - seen through the eyes of a child who survived the horror. Le Ly Hayslip, the inspiration for the musical "Miss Saigon", tells the story of a young peasant girl's struggle to survive. Pressed into service at the age of 12 by the Vietcong, Le Ly Hayslip was captured and tortured by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American soldier and after affairs with several GIs, she fled to America to escape the horrors of the war. But as the traumas of the war years lingered on in painful nightmares, Le Ly Hayslip retur...
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Community on the American Frontier: Separate but Not Alone

By: Hine, Robert V.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press: 1985

Seller ID: 292

ISBN: 0806119225

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Still in plastic wrap; Still in shrink-wrap.

A study of the frontier settlements - the isolated farms and small towns, the ethnic colonies (Germans, Scandanavians, African-Americans) and the co-operative utopias, colonies based on religion like the Mormons and the Huttites, and the expanded family lifesyle of the Mexican ranchero and its adaptation in the American Southwest. Illustrated with many photographs, extensive bibliography.
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Wasn't the Grass Greener? : a Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

By: Holland, Barbara

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harcourt: 1999

Seller ID: 109

ISBN: 0151004420

Binding: Hardcover

256 pages
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Turning the Tide

By: Horton, Tom

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Island Press: 1991

Seller ID: 250

ISBN: 1559631007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

327 pages; The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most productive and important ecosystems on earth, and as such is a model for other estuaries facing the demands of commerce, tourism, transportation, recreation, and other uses. Turning the Tide presents a comprehensive look at two decades of efforts to save the bay, outlining which methods have worked and which have not.
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Richmond Burning the last days of the Confederate capital

By: Lankford, Nelson

Price: $6.99

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2002.

Seller ID: 1244

ISBN: 0670031178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Inscription in front of book. ; Through the winter and early spring of 1865, while Union armies ranged at will across the South, Richmond still glittered with the hard defiance of a city long at war. But this last flicker of resolve only made the city's fall all the more devastating. On the night of April 2, faced with the inevitability of Grant's triumph, Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled, leaving Richmond to its fate-fire, capture, and the end of hope for a Southern nation. In this enthralling, meticulously researched book, Nelson Lankford draws on a treasure trove of diaries, letters, me...
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Among the heroes United Flight 93 and the passengers and crew who fought back

By: Longman, Jere

Price: $6.24

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2002

Seller ID: 811

ISBN: 0060099089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-Library; Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance. At a time when the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar foe, the gallant passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a measure of victory in the midst of unthinkable defeat. Together, they seemingly accomplished what all the security guards and soldiers, military pilots and government officials, could not -- they thwarted the terrorists, sacrificing their own lives so that others might live. The culmination of hundreds of interviews with family member...
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The Saudis inside the desert kingdom

By: Mackey, Sandra

Price: $11.94

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1987

Seller ID: 645

ISBN: 0395411653

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Name (inscription) written in ink on inside first to pages. ; Chronicles the transformation of Saudi Arabia from a primitive Bedouin realm in the desert to a complex and contradictory world power, describing the reality of the kingdom's present and analyzing the forces that will shape its future.
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practica Politics

By: Riordon, William L.

Price: $2.99

Publisher: New York, Signet Classic: 1996

Seller ID: 1375

ISBN: 0451526201

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures ever to play the American political game and win. George Washington Plunkitt rose from impoverished beginnings to become ward boss of the Fifteenth Assembly District in New York, a key player in the powerhouse political team of Tammany Hall, and, not incidentally, a millionaire. In a series of utterly frank talks given at his headquarters (Graziano’s bootblack stand outside the New York County Court House) , he revealed to a sharp-eared and sympathetic reporter named William L. Riordan ...
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Savannah A History of Her People Since 1733

By: Russell, Preston and Barbara Hines

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Savannah, GA, Frederic C. Beil Publisher: 1992

Seller ID: 1737

ISBN: 091372081x

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Book is almost like new, but includes an inscription written in pen on the first page. ; Since 1992 this book has been the benchmark history of Savannah, Georgia. Includes more than 150 illustrations, bibliography, and index.
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Screaming Eagle: Memoirs of a B-17 Group Commander

By: Smith, Dale O.

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Dell: 1990

Seller ID: 28

ISBN: 0440208475

Binding: Paperback

241 pages; The commander of an American bomber unit describes the role it played in the air war against Nazi Germany.
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