Resultaten gefilterd op "History Press"

Dark City

Simon Read

• Paperback | Engels
• There was more to wartime London than stiff upper lips and rousing choruses of 'Roll Out the Barrel'. Criminals hunted their prey without fear of repr... Lees meer

In the Shadow of the Great War

Kirsty Bennett, Imogen Middleton, Michael Page, Juliet Warren

• Paperback | Engels
• The culmination of a 4-year project to tell the story of Surrey in the First World War Lees meer

Hidden History of Bangor:

Wayne Reilly

• Paperback | Engels | Hidden History
• When celebrity aviator Harry Atwood made the first aeroplane flight over Bangor in 1912, observers were astonished. It was a sign that the city had re... Lees meer

A History of East Tennessee Auto Racing

David McGee

• Paperback | Engels | Sports
• East Tennessee isn't typically mentioned among stock car racing's formative hotbeds. But the region from Bristol to Oneida and Chattanooga encapsulate... Lees meer

Historic Treasures of New Haven:

Laura A Macaluso

• Paperback | Engels
• For more than two hundred years, New Haven, Connecticut, has had a particular proclivity for marking the passage of time. Residents of the Elm City ce... Lees meer

Remembering Germantown

• Paperback | Engels | American Chronicles
• With grit and gumption, the residents of Germantown propelled their community from a sleepy backwater to a thriving urban neighborhood. Through charmi... Lees meer

A Brief History of Rockville Centre

Marilyn Nunes Devlin

• Paperback | Engels | Brief History
• The village of Rockville Centre is a suburban haven on Long Island. Beginning in the eighteenth century with families like the DeMotts, this small far... Lees meer

The Ken Fox Hellriders

Gary Margerum

• Paperback | Engels
• Astonished by the wonderful spectacle that is the wall of death, Gary Margerum has photographed the travelling show for over a year. With unique acces... Lees meer

Scottish Transport Tokens

Ronnie Breingan

• Paperback | Engels
• A fascinating look at tokens' unique contribution to Scottish transport history Lees meer

Shipping on the Humber

Mike Taylor

• Paperback | Engels
• Over the years, several books featuring shipping on the River Humber have been published, but few have viewed their subject from an inland waterway vi... Lees meer

D-Day: Omaha Beach

Stephen Badsey, Tim Bean

• Paperback | Engels
• The story of D-Day Lees meer

The Home Front

Peter Cooksley

• Paperback | Engels
• Deals with the experiences of those at home during the conflict of the Second World War. This work examines topics such as: the declaration of war, th... Lees meer

Mississippi Legends and Lore

Alan Brown

• Paperback | Engels | American Legends
• The battle for Vicksburg roils still, the outcome of the Union siege undecided as specters reload and carry on. The Pascagoula River sings out in grie... Lees meer

Patriot on the Kennebec:

Mark A York

• Paperback | Engels
• In late 1775, a few months a¬fter the first shots of the Revolution were fired, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand troops into Quebec to attac... Lees meer

North Platte's Keith Blackledge

Carol Lomicky

• Paperback | Engels
• Popular culture glorified newspapers in the 1970s, creating a kind of mythical community newspaperman--like Keith Blackledge, longtime editor of the N... Lees meer

Isaac Newton

Andrew May

• Paperback | Engels | Pocket Giants
• In chasing his impossible goal, Newton managed to contribute more to our understanding of the universe than anyone else in history.ANDREW MAY went to ... Lees meer

Dead on Time

Jean Claude Guiet

• Hardcover | Engels
• Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a `naive' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a... Lees meer

Wild Women of Washington, D.C.

Canden Schwantes

• Paperback | Engels | Wicked
• Fiery suffragettes, unconventional first ladies, and rebellious socialites turning up their noses at ladylike behavior, these pioneering women of Wash... Lees meer

Nelson's Lost Jewel

Martyn Downer

• Paperback | Engels
• Nelson's Lost Jewel tells the remarkable story of one of the most famous jewels in British history for the first time, and traces its journey from Con... Lees meer

South Norfolk, Virginia, 1661-2005:

Raymond L Harper

• Paperback | Engels | Definitive History
• Since its beginnings in the early seventeenth century, South Norfolk, Virginia, has been a community marked by change and peopled with extraordinary c... Lees meer

The Jefferson Hotel: The History of a Richmond Landmark

Paul N Herbert

• Paperback | Engels | Landmarks
• Designed by Richmond visionary Lewis Ginter, The Jefferson Hotel has been an icon in the community since 1895. From the alligators that used to roam t... Lees meer

Lost Fort Worth

Mike Nichols

• Paperback | Engels | Lost
• From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil and national defense drove its... Lees meer

Lost Virginia Beach

Amy Waters Yarsinske

• Paperback | Engels | Lost
• Join author and historian Amy Waters Yarsinske as she takes one final stroll through a Virginia Beach lost to time. The Oceanfront's Cottage Line, the... Lees meer

Civil War Pittsburgh

Len Barcousky

• Paperback | Engels | Civil War
• On Christmas Day 1860, the Daily Pittsburgh Gazette announced that more than one hundred cannons from the nearby U.S. Arsenal were to be shipped south... Lees meer