In the four years of the Korean War, America lost almost 54,000 men, roughly the same number who lost their lives in Vietnam, yet this war has almost disappeared into American history as the “Forgotten War.” <i>George-3-7th Marines</i> recounts the bloody Marine infantry campaigns fought in the deadly mountain ranges of Korea. It is a story told by the men who fought—and died anonymously—in a little-known yet bloody war. These never- ...
The morning of September 11, 2001, began like any other morning for police Sergeant Frank Marra. He woke up early, brewed his coffee, and got his son Anthony ready for kindergarten. That was until the image of the South Tower engulfed in flames and smoke interrupted televised broadcasts nationwide. <i>From Landfill to Hallowed Ground</i> follows the footsteps of Sergeant Frank Marra and the people whose lives were irrevocably changed ...
A Cross of Thorns challenges this mythologized history and presents the facts of the Spanish occupation of California, describing the dark and cruel reality of Mission life. Beginning in 1769, California Indians were enticed into the missions, where they and their descendents were imprisoned for 60 years of forced labor and daily beatings. The chilling depictions of colonial cruelty in A Cross of Thorns are based on little known church and Span ...
With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, this collection showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco has been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than 150 years. ...
Irish Days, Indian Memories offers a unique insight into an unexpectedly momentous facet of Dublin’s political and student life from 1913 to the end of the turbulent year that was 1916. V.V. Giri, fourth President of India (1969-74), who would later say of himself ‘when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman’, and a group of twelve Indian law students at King’s Inns and University College Dublin, witnessed and participated in the events of these d ...
Originally published in 1960 and edited by Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Shaping of Modern Ireland was a seminal work surveying the lives of prominent early twentieth-century figures who influenced Irish affairs in the years between the death of Charles Stewart Parnell in 1891 and the Easter Rising of 1916. The chapters were written by leading historians and commentators from the Ireland of the 1950s, some of whom personally knew the subjects of the ...
Charles Haughey maintained one of the most controversial and brilliant careers in the history of Irish politics, but for every stage in his mounting success there was one issue that complicated, and almost devastated, his ambitions to lead Irish politics: Northern Ireland. In ‘A Failed Political Entity’ Stephen Kelly uncovers the complex motives that underlie Haughey’s fervent attitude towards the political and sectarian violence that was raging ...
Peter Sacco, the host of the local TV series «Niagara's Most Haunted», brings you more spine-chilling tales from the grave. His real life stories focus on several unique, bizarre cases that have haunted the Niagara Region for many decades, stories shrouded in secrecy where the locals would prefer you didn't talk about it. Peter Sacco introduces you to previously unknown cases of: * The Poltergeist Possession * An Evil Haunted ...
Тимош, сын украинского гетмана Богдана Хмельницкого, обещал отцу, что найдёт себе особую невесту, принцессу, как из сказки, и сдержал слово. Нашлась для него принцесса – дочь молдавского князя Василия. Отец строит планы, чтобы самому держать во власти Украину, а сына посадить в Молдавии. Тогда не страшны станут заносчивые польские паны, другой с ними разговор будет. Но велика плата за исполнение такой мечты. Чтобы сбылась, придётся Тимошу воеват ...
