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Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the war on the South 1861-1865 (Hardcover): George Edmonds Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the war on the South 1861-1865 (Hardcover)
George Edmonds
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
On Multiform War - Strategy, Revolution, and the Nine-Head Monster. (Hardcover): Geoffrey Demarest On Multiform War - Strategy, Revolution, and the Nine-Head Monster. (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Demarest
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hitler's Holy Relics - A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire... Hitler's Holy Relics - A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire (Paperback)
Sidney Kirkpatrick
R414 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R22 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasures they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. In "Hitler's Holy Relics, "bestselling author Sidney Kirkpatrick tells the riveting and never-before-told true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
Anticipating the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany, Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler had ordered a top-secret bunker carved deep into the bedrock beneath Nurnberg castle. Inside the well-guarded chamber was a specially constructed vault that held the plundered treasures Hitler valued the most: the Spear of Destiny (reputed to have been used to pierce Christ's side while he was on the cross) and the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, ancient artifacts steeped in medieval mysticism and coveted by world rulers from Charlemagne to Napoleon. But as Allied bombers rained devastation upon Nurnberg and the U.S. Seventh Army prepared to invade the city Hitler called "the soul of the Nazi Party," five of the most precious relics, all central to the coronation ceremony of a would-be Holy Roman Emperor, vanished from the vault. Who took them? And why? The mystery remained unsolved for months after the war's end, until the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, ordered Lieutenant Walter Horn, a German-born art historian on leave from U.C. Berkeley, to hunt down the missing treasures.
To accomplish his mission, Horn must revisit the now-rubble-strewn landscape of his youth and delve into the ancient legends and arcane mysticism surrounding the antiquities that Hitler had looted in his quest for world domination. Horn searches for clues in the burnt remains of Himmler's private castle and follows the trail of neo-Nazi "Teutonic Knights" charged with protecting a vast hidden fortune in plundered gold and other treasure. Along the way, Horn has to confront his own demons: how members of his family and former academic colleagues subverted scholarly research to help legitimize Hitler's theories of Aryan supremacy and the Master Race. What Horn discovers on his investigative odyssey is so explosive that his final report will remain secret for decades.
Drawing on unpublished interrogation and intelligence reports, as well as on diaries, letters, journals, and interviews in the United States and Germany, Kirkpatrick tells this riveting and disturbing story with cinematic detail and reveals-- for the first time--how a failed Vienna art student, obsessed with the occult and dreams of his own grandeur, nearly succeeded in creating a Holy Reich rooted in a twisted reinvention of medieval and Church history.

History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Its Past and Present, 1740-1881. Containing a Comprehensive History of Ohio; a Complete... History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Its Past and Present, 1740-1881. Containing a Comprehensive History of Ohio; a Complete History of Coshocton County ... a History of Its Soldiers in the Late war ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc (Hardcover)
A A 1848- Graham, N. N. Hill, Aa Graham &. Co
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Coastal Command Pilot 1939-1945 (Paperback): Ted Rayner Coastal Command Pilot 1939-1945 (Paperback)
Ted Rayner
R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sand Searchers (Hardcover): Timothy Maccormac, Alisha Rath, Bren Kolson Sand Searchers (Hardcover)
Timothy Maccormac, Alisha Rath, Bren Kolson
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War (Hardcover): D. Thomas Curtin The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War (Hardcover)
D. Thomas Curtin
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Living With the Winnebagos - Experiences of Wisconsin During the Early 19th Century (Hardcover): John, H. Kinzie, Andrew... Living With the Winnebagos - Experiences of Wisconsin During the Early 19th Century (Hardcover)
John, H. Kinzie, Andrew Jackson Turner, Charles R. Tuttle
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jefferson Davis - High Road to Emancipation and Constitutional Government (Hardcover): James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald... Jefferson Davis - High Road to Emancipation and Constitutional Government (Hardcover)
James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy
R1,017 R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Save R95 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Twentieth Connecticut (Hardcover): John Whiting Storrs The Twentieth Connecticut (Hardcover)
John Whiting Storrs
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Pistol Pete, Veteran of the Old West (Hardcover): Frank Pistol Pete Eaton Pistol Pete, Veteran of the Old West (Hardcover)
Frank Pistol Pete Eaton
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Alemeth - The Real People and Events: Including the Civil War Letters of John Alemeth Byers (Hardcover): Joseph W Carvin Alemeth - The Real People and Events: Including the Civil War Letters of John Alemeth Byers (Hardcover)
Joseph W Carvin
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan General United States Army (Hardcover): Sheridan Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan General United States Army (Hardcover)
Sheridan
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Wuhan Incident - Bioweapons and the Emerging Global Reset (Hardcover): Mark Fulmer The Wuhan Incident - Bioweapons and the Emerging Global Reset (Hardcover)
Mark Fulmer
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Judge's Odyssey - From Vermont to Russia, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, Then on to War Crimes and Organ Trafficking in Kosovo... A Judge's Odyssey - From Vermont to Russia, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, Then on to War Crimes and Organ Trafficking in Kosovo (Hardcover)
Dean B Pineles
R731 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany (Hardcover): Crown Prince of Germany 188 William The Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany (Hardcover)
Crown Prince of Germany 188 William
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Wild Woman of Cincinnati - Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War (Hardcover): Michael D Pierson The Wild Woman of Cincinnati - Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War (Hardcover)
Michael D Pierson
R1,128 Discovery Miles 11 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Popular entertainment in antebellum Cincinnati ran the gamut from high culture to shows barely above the level of the tawdry. Among the options for those seeking entertainment in the summer of 1856 was the display of a "Wild Woman," purportedly a young woman captured while living a feral life beyond the frontier. The popular exhibit, which featured a silent, underdressed woman chained to a bed, was almost assuredly a hoax. Local activist women, however, used their influence to prompt a judge to investigate the display. The court employed eleven doctors, who forcibly subdued and examined the woman before advising that she be admitted to an insane asylum. In his riveting analysis of this remarkable episode in antebellum American history, Michael D. Pierson describes how people in different political parties and sections of the country reacted to the exhibit. Specifically, he uses the lens of the Wild Woman display to explore the growing cultural divisions between the North and the South in 1856, especially the differing gender ideologies of the northern Republican Party and the more southern focused Democrats. In addition, Pierson shows how the treatment of the Wild Woman of Cincinnati prompted an increasing demand for women's political and social empowerment at a time when the country allowed for the display of a captive female without evidence that she had granted consent.

Herbert Corey's Great War - A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All (Hardcover): John Maxwell... Herbert Corey's Great War - A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All (Hardcover)
John Maxwell Hamilton; Peter Finn; Edited by Peter Finn
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Britain declared war on Germany. During the Great War that followed, Corey reported from France, Britain, and Germany, visiting the German lines on both the western and eastern fronts. He also reported from Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, and Serbia. When the Armistice was signed in November 1918, Corey defied the rules of the American Expeditionary Forces and crossed into Germany. He covered the Paris Peace Conference the following year. No other foreign correspondent matched the longevity of his reporting during World War I. Until recently, however, his unpublished memoir lay largely unnoticed among his papers in the Library of Congress. With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American war reporting. As a correspondent, he defies easy comparison. He approximates Ernie Pyle in his sympathetic interest in the American foot soldier, but he also told stories about troops on the other side and about noncombatants. He is especially illuminating on the obstacles reporters faced in conveying the story of the Great War to Americans. As his memoir makes clear, Corey didn't believe he was in Europe to serve the Allies. He viewed himself as an outsider, one who was deeply ambivalent about the entry of the United States into the war. His idiosyncratic, opinionated, and very American voice makes for compelling reading.

A Soldier's Heart - The 3 Wars of Vietnam (Hardcover): Raynold A Gauvin A Soldier's Heart - The 3 Wars of Vietnam (Hardcover)
Raynold A Gauvin
R861 R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life of Abdul Hamid (Hardcover): Edwin Pears Life of Abdul Hamid (Hardcover)
Edwin Pears
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Into the Jungle! - A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II (Hardcover): Jimmy Kugler Into the Jungle! - A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II (Hardcover)
Jimmy Kugler; Edited by Michael Kugler
R3,144 Discovery Miles 31 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts. The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic strips from America's small-town Midwest is remarkable. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father's adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels. Kugler emphasizes how US propaganda intended to inspire patriotic support for the war gave this young artist a license for his imagined violence. In a context of progressive American educational reform, these violent comic stories, often in settings modeled on the artist's small Nebraska town, suggests a form of adolescent rebellion against moral conventions consistent with comic art's reputation for "outsider" or countercultural expressions. Kugler also argues that these comics provide evidence for the transition in American taste from war stories to the horror comics of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kugler's thorough analysis of his father's adolescent art explains how a small-town boy from the plains distilled the popular culture of his day for an imagined war he could fight on his audacious, even shocking terms.

A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War (Hardcover): Rowe Reginald Percy Pfeiffer A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War (Hardcover)
Rowe Reginald Percy Pfeiffer
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Myth of the Great War (Paperback): John Mosier Myth of the Great War (Paperback)
John Mosier
R482 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.

Bletchley Park - The Secret Archives (Hardcover): Sinclair McKay, Bletchley Park Bletchley Park - The Secret Archives (Hardcover)
Sinclair McKay, Bletchley Park 1
R974 R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Save R203 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is beautifully slipcased presented collector' s edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invented and the German Enigma code was cracked, to its post-war dereliction and then rescue towards the end of the twentieth century as a museum. Removable memorabilia includes: 1938 recruiting memo with a big tick against Turing' s name Churchill' s ' Action this day' letter giving code breakers extra resources Handwritten Turing memos Top Secret Engima decryptions, about the sinking of the Bismark, German High Command' s assessment of D-Day threat and the message announcing Hitler' s suicide A wealth of everyday items such as call-up papers, security notices and propoganda posters Newly redesigned interiors with 25% new content, high end slipcase package featuring removable facsimile documents, this is an essential purchase for everyone interested and wanting to experience the place where code-breaking helped to win the war.

The Book of the Sword (Hardcover): Richard Francis Burton The Book of the Sword (Hardcover)
Richard Francis Burton
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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