wyszukanych pozycji: 7
We Pierce: A Novel
ISBN: 9780743212786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We Pierce is the heartbreaking story of two brothers. One brother, Smith, goes to war. The other brother, Sam, stays home and protests against the war. A true believer in his country, Smith leads a tank company into battle in Iraq during the first Gulf War. Sam, an aspiring writer who is as much a rebel as his older brother is a natural leader, is busy demonstrating in Times Square in New York and at the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C. Smith learns about the true nature of patriotism, camaraderie, modern warfare and, perhaps most important, the soldiers' secret that some things...
We Pierce is the heartbreaking story of two brothers. One brother, Smith, goes to war. The other brother, Sam, stays home and protests against ...
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82,95 zł |
American by Blood
ISBN: 9780684857718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In American by Blood, three U.S. Army scouts arrive a day late to join General Custer at Little Bighorn. They come upon the ruins of the Seventh Cavalry, a trail of blood and corpses defiled by wild dogs and swarms of flies. It is a scene that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. With the loss at Little Bighorn, the three men find their mission to help clear the land of Indian tribes becoming one of vengeance. As they journey into the dense forests and high plains of the Old West, each man finds more than he bargained for in this epic story that shatters some of our nation's...
In American by Blood, three U.S. Army scouts arrive a day late to join General Custer at Little Bighorn. They come upon the ruins of the Seven...
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78,40 zł |
Love and Death in the Great War
ISBN: 9780190853921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Love and Death in the Great War merges the stories of several American families with analysis of wartime popular culture. It argues that family, in lived experience and as symbolic motivator, gave the war meaning, recovering the conflict's personal dimensions. But that narrative had undergone transformative challenges by war's end.
Love and Death in the Great War merges the stories of several American families with analysis of wartime popular culture. It argues that family, in li...
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317,67 zł |
Love and Death in the Great War
ISBN: 9780190092467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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152,05 zł |
The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era
ISBN: 9780807858387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.S. troops marched off to battle in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Exploring representations of servicemen in the popular press, government propaganda, museum exhibits, literature, film, and television, Andrew Huebner traces the evolution of a storied American icon--the combat soldier.
Huebner challenges the pervasive assumption that Vietnam brought drastic changes in portrayals of the American warrior, with the jaded serviceman of the 1960s and 1970s shown in stark contrast to the... Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.S. troops marched off to battle in World War II, the Korean War, and th...
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233,91 zł |
Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History
ISBN: 9780817361686 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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192,35 zł |
Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780820356815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew Fede cites a wide range of cases - across time, place, and circumstance - to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence.
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew Fede cites a ...
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170,34 zł |