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The First Vcs
The Stories Behind the First Victoria Crosses in the Crimean War and the Definition of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than merit. Then came the Crimean War.
The incompetence and ineffectiveness of the senior officers contrasted sharply with...
The Little Armageddon
The Great Controversy Within the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
John Churchill is a baptized Seventh-day Adventist Christian since May 30, 1976. He is one of those who "came up through the ranks" in the church, having a zeal from the lord from his early teens, that would not let him just sit down in church or keep quiet about Jesus. Sharing his faith...
The Painting on the Window Blind
The Story of an Unknown Artist and a Daring Union Spy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
This is the story of a search for information about a Civil War painting unique in several respects: it is on an old-fashioned roll-down window blind, is the only known surviving work of previously unknown soldier artist John H. G. Hood, and is the only known one of a Union soldier in a Confederate...
The Book of the Pearl
Its History, Art, Science and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
This monumental, profusely illustrated volume by two noted authorities is probably the largest single collection of data on the subject of pearls. Its enormous amount of detailed information covers their origin and history, structure, and form; the pearl fisheries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas;...
Salman Rushdie the Believer
A Satanic Journey Mirroring Belief
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This books critical approach offers an interpretation that seeks to illuminate Salman Rushdies own struggle with religious identity. The focus on Rushdies The Satanic Verses as a display of personal struggle transcends the post publications controversy surrounding the novel. It also suggests a possible...
by Tamara Waronowa, Andrej Sterligow
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a...
by Graham Robson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Sir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame and fortune in the motor industry, and the Jaguar brand that he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars, and in the 1930s in Coventry developing the...
by Roger Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
It has now been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons and called it Meccano, coining a word which has entered the dictionary as a term in common usage and is now known all over the world. Hornby's vision of an educational toy became the basis of perhaps the most successful...
Compacts and Cosmetics
Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
A delightfully illustrated history of makeup and the beauty business.
Cosmetics go all the way back to ancient times. In this book, an expert in vintage accessories tells the story of beauty products from the nineteenth century to the present, revealing how both makeup and the women who wear...
Money of the World
Coins That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Money of the World: Coins That Made History illustrates how many coins were shaped by the development of Western Civilization-and how they sometimes helped shape it in turn. The Millennia Collection, illustrated throughout the book, tells the history of Western Civilization through significant coins...
by Toby Carrington-Woods
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Military Buffs, History Students, Historical Trivia Lovers and Even Students of Politics...
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German Army Medals & Awards - The Complete List.
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A Needle in the Right Hand of God
The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew...
by Carrie Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
With Carrick Price Guides you can keep up to date with current prices on your favorite games.When you purchase this guide it will be produced that same day just for you.This insures that you will get the up to date and accurate prices available.How do we get our prices?We track sales from each of...
by S. L. Bensusan
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
PLATE I.—GEORGE GISZE. Frontispiece (In the Royal Museum, Berlin)
This picture of a leading merchant of the Steelyard was painted in 1532, and constituted the artist's successful attempt to capture the patronage of one of the wealthiest merchant communities in the world. That the patronage...