wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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McKinley, Murder and the Pan-American Exposition: A History of the Presidential Assassination, September 6, 1901
ISBN: 9781476666303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley held a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In the receiving line, holding a gun concealed by a handkerchief, was Leon Czolgosz, a young man with anarchist leanings. When he reached McKinley, Czolgosz fired two shots, one of which would prove fatal.
The backdrop of the assassination was among the largest of many world's fairs held in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Exposition celebrated American progress, highlighting the new technology electricity. Over 100,000 light bulbs outlined the...
On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley held a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In the receiving line, h...
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167,87 |
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Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy
ISBN: 9780817360061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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117,50 |
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Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union
ISBN: 9780817316525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prisoner of war camp mismanagement, brutality, and incompetence. It is only recently that historians have turned their attention to this contentious topic in an attempt to sort the wheat of truth from the chaff of partisan rancor.
Roger Pickenpaugh has previously studied a Union prison camp in... Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partis...
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205,71 |
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America's First Interstate: The National Road, 1806-1853
ISBN: 9781606353974 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
115,42 |
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Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union
ISBN: 9780817362362 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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137,09 |
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Johnson's Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers
ISBN: 9781606352847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union's sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known as Johnson's Island. With a large amount of fallen timber, forty acres of cleared land, and its proximity to Sandusky, Ohio, Johnson's Island seemed the ideal location for the Union's purpose. By the following spring, Johnson's Island prison was born. Johnson's Island tells the story... In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the constructi... |
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73,03 |
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Primary Importance: Kennedy Versus Humphrey in West Virginia and Wisconsin, 1960
ISBN: 9781476694047 / Miękka / 2024 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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275,77 |