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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Lutheran records for this church include: 521 baptisms (June 20, 1824 to August 14, 1884; 204 baptisms (July 3, 1890 to Sept. 29,1974), 452 Burials from the Church Register (1862-1925); 221 Burials from a Church register Book (1890-1975 and 1847-1851); 14 burials from a loose sheet (1847-1850), 10 burials from Lancaster County Register of Deaths, 84 members of the Lutheran Congregation in 1890, 465 members (1890 to 1974 includes baptisms and confirmations), 67 marriages (1896 to 1975 incomplete). Reformed records include 192 baptisms from October 2, 1824 to May 14, 1876. There are also notes of interest from the Church books. Surname-family/maiden names index. 2001, 81/2 X 11, paper, 130 pp[cp310].…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They rode out with the banners of a dozen nations. They never came back.In September 1396, the largest crusading army ever assembled was destroyed in a single afternoon. Not by overwhelming odds. By an argument about who deserved to ride at the front of a column.Pride, Power, and the Catastrophic Defeat That Ended Medieval Europe's Final Holy War is the gripping story of how the last crusade was built, broken, and what the wreckage meant for the world that followed.Few people know that the Battle of Nicopolis was decided the night before the fighting began, in a war council where the one commander who understood the enemy was overruled for reasons that had nothing to do with military logic. What happened next was not bad luck. It was a trap, and the Crusaders walked into it with their eyes open.This book takes you inside the diplomatic struggle that assembled 20,000 men from a dozen fractured nations. It puts you in the war council where the right plan was rejected for the wrong reasons. It walks you through the charge, the trap, the collapse, the massacre before the sultan, and the 200,000 gold florin ransom that brought the last survivors home eighteen months later. And it answers the question that every page builds toward: why did the battle that sealed Ottoman dominance over the Balkans and condemned Constantinople to fall have to happen this way The answer is not comfortable. But it is one that every reader who has ever watched the wrong voice win an argument will immediately recognize.The last crusade did not have to end this way. That is exactly why it still matters.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Before Hippocrates, there was a man history chose to forget. Over 2,000 years before the Greek physician ever practiced medicine, a Black African genius named Imhotep was already diagnosing illnesses, performing surgeries, and documenting the human body with a scientific precision that the world would not see again for millennia. Yet his name has been missing from the front page of medical history -- until now. What you are about to discover will permanently change the way you understand medicine, architecture, and the true origins of human civilization. Few people know that the Hippocratic Oath, the sacred pledge every doctor takes, begins with a direct reference to Imhotep himself, disguised beneath a Greek name. Fewer still know that the man who designed the world's first large stone structure also founded the first school of medicine, treated over 200 illnesses, and was worshipped as a god across Egypt, Greece, and Rome. IMHOTEP: History of Medicine in Ancient Egypt peels back centuries of historical misdirection to restore the full, documented truth of who this African polymath really was and what his legacy means for the world today. Inside, you will discover the remarkable science behind the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the ancient medical manuscript attributed to Imhotep whose diagnostic logic still mirrors modern clinical practice. You will follow his rise from a commoner in Gebelein to the most powerful non-royal figure in Egyptian civilization. You will understand, with clarity and evidence, why colonization replaced his name with another man's and why that replacement can no longer stand. This book is for anyone who has ever felt that history was not telling the whole truth. Get your copy today and meet the real father of medicine.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What really happened when the ancient world suddenly stopped working A fleet appears on the horizon. Cities that once thrived on trade fall silent. Kings send desperate messages that never receive answers. Within a single generation, the Bronze Age world begins to unravel in ways no one could have predicted.The Sea People takes you into that moment of collapse, where history shifts from stability to chaos. This is not just a story of invasion. It is the story of a global system under pressure, where famine, broken trade routes, environmental stress, and mass migration collide at the same time.What you are about to discover will change how you see ancient history. Few people know that the fall of powerful civilizations like the Hittites and Mycenaeans was not isolated. It was connected. It was systemic. And it unfolded across the entire Mediterranean world almost at once.What you will gain from this book: A clear understanding of how interconnected Bronze Age civilizations truly wereThe hidden pressures that weakened empires long before their collapseThe real role of the Sea Peoples beyond myth and mysteryHow trade, resources, and diplomacy shaped the ancient world's downfallWhy the collapse was not an ending, but the beginning of a new ageWhy this matters now is simple. Collapse rarely comes from one cause. It builds quietly, through systems that depend too heavily on balance. This ancient story reveals how quickly stability can disappear when those systems begin to fail.When is this most relevant When you want to understand how civilizations rise, how they fall, and how human societies respond when everything familiar begins to break apart.Who is this for Readers drawn to ancient history, lost civilizations, historical mysteries, and the deeper forces that shape human survival across time.The hidden truth behind the Sea Peoples is not just who they were, but what they represent. A world in motion, breaking apart under its own weight.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On July 4th, 1863, a Confederate general surrendered an entire army and the fate of a nation changed forever.But the real story of Vicksburg was never just about the battle. It was about the people crushed inside it. A mother clutching her two-year-old daughter in a hillside cave while artillery shells shook the earth above her. A schoolteacher from Alabama writing love letters to his wife from the edge of a battlefield he never chose. A formerly enslaved man pulling on a Union uniform for the first time, knowing that capture meant something far worse than death.Few people know that Ulysses S. Grant's campaign to take Vicksburg was considered militarily impossible by nearly every professional soldier who studied it. He cut his own supply line, crossed a major river with no route of retreat, marched two hundred miles through enemy territory, and fought five battles in seventeen days, winning every single one.What you are about to discover will change how you see the Civil War entirely.This is not a book about generals moving pieces across a map. It is the story of what 1863 actually felt like from the inside. The woman who refused to leave her city even as it was being systematically destroyed around her. The reverend conducting services yards from the front lines. The Norwegian immigrants fighting to prove that democracy itself was worth dying for. The soldier who went to find his friend a clean shirt and came back to find him already gone.The hidden truth behind the Vicksburg campaign is that it was never just a military operation. It was the moment the Civil War became something larger than a constitutional dispute, when Lincoln fused the cause of Union with the cause of human freedom and set in motion a chain of events that neither side could stop or fully predict.Inside these pages you will discover how one general's audacity broke the Confederate West wide open, why Vicksburg mattered more than any single battle in Virginia, what the simultaneous falls of Vicksburg and Gettysburg did to the Confederate will to fight, and how ordinary men and women survived the unsurvivable and left behind testimonies that history has not forgotten.This is the siege that split a nation. The gamble that changed a war. The human story that no military history alone can fully tell.If you have ever wanted to understand what the Civil War truly cost the people who lived through it, this is the book you have been looking for.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He had no army. No title. No throne.Yet one man dismantled a dynasty that had stood for centuries and rebuilt China in his own image.His name was Cao Cao. And history has never quite known what to do with him.He was called a capable minister by those who admired him and an unscrupulous hero by those who feared him. Both were right. Born into the final, rotting years of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao rose from a young man of damaged reputation to become the most powerful figure in China, not by inheriting power, but by seizing it with a clarity of purpose that few men in any era have matched.He captured a living emperor and used him as a political weapon. He defeated an army of 110,000 with a force a fraction of its size. He marched south to finish what he had started, and was stopped by fire on a river.Few people know that the Three Kingdoms era, one of the most dramatic periods in human history, was set in motion by a single man's refusal to submit.What you are about to discover will change how you see ambition, power, and the price a nation pays when one man decides the old order must end.This is the true story of Cao Cao, told with the depth, honesty, and narrative power it deserves. No mythology. No simplification. Just the man, the chaos he inherited, the empire he built, and the legacy that outlasted everything he could not finish.If you have ever wondered what it truly costs to reshape a world, this book will show you.Grab your copy today and step into one of history's most gripping, most consequential lives.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They banned their faith. Renamed their city. Scattered their people. But they could not kill the memory.In 132 AD, a people pushed beyond every limit of human endurance rose against the greatest empire the world had ever seen. No foreign ally backed them. No equal army stood beside them. Only faith, fury, and a leader the world would never forget: Simon Bar Kokhba, the man hailed as the Messiah of Israel.What followed was three years of war so brutal that Emperor Hadrian himself could not bring himself to open his Senate report with the customary words of confidence. Rome bled. Legions were depleted. And still, the rebels held.Few people know how close this revolt came to breaking the Roman Empire in the east.In The Bar Kokhba Revolt, you will walk inside the tunnels they dug beneath Roman feet, feel the weight of coins stamped with the words Freedom of Israel, and stand inside the fortress of Betar as the last wall began to fall. This is not a distant history lesson. It is the story of what human beings are capable of when everything that makes life meaningful is under threat.What you are about to discover will change how you see resistance, identity, and the true cost of freedom.This book is for readers of ancient history, military history, and Jewish history who want more than dates and battles. It is for anyone who has ever wondered what it truly means to refuse to disappear.The land was lost. The city was renamed. The people were scattered. And still, the spirit endured.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He was seventeen years old, surrounded by enemies, and about to change the world.In 1611, Sweden was a small, debt-ridden kingdom fighting three wars it could barely afford. Its new king had no military record, no guarantee of survival, and no margin for error. By the time he died at thirty-seven, he had built one of Europe's most feared armies, saved Protestant Christianity from collapse, and pioneered the military tactics that Napoleon would study two centuries later.Few people know that the most peaceful nation in Europe was once its most feared empire. And fewer still know the name of the man who built it.Gustavus Adolphus, the only Swedish king ever called 'the Great,' did not just fight wars. He reinvented them. He created mobile artillery that changed battlefields forever, built a professional army using the church as his administrative backbone, and marched thirteen thousand men into the heart of a hostile empire when the Protestant cause was on the verge of total collapse.What you are about to discover is how one man's extraordinary mind shaped the world you live in today, from the religious freedom embedded in modern constitutions to the military doctrine still taught in war colleges worldwide.This is not just history. It is the story of genius under pressure, faith forged in fire, and a legacy that has never fully ended.If you have ever wondered how the modern world was made, this is where part of the answer lives. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the morning of September 17, 1862, thousands of men wrote their final letters home. By nightfall, 22,727 of them were dead, wounded, or missing, and the United States of America would never be the same again.What happened along a quiet creek in western Maryland in a single day changed the entire course of the Civil War, ended a nation's best hope for foreign intervention, and forced Abraham Lincoln's hand on the most consequential decision of his presidency.Few people know that the Confederate army arrived at Antietam with a plan so bold it should never have worked. Fewer still know how close it came to succeeding. Robert E. Lee stood at Sharpsburg with barely 15,000 men, his back to the Potomac River, his only escape route a single ford, waiting for an enemy force more than twice his size to destroy him. What you are about to discover is how one outnumbered, hungry, barefoot army held that position against everything thrown at it, and why the man with every advantage chose, at every critical moment, not to use it.The Battle of Antietam takes you inside the bloodiest single day in American history with the depth and intimacy that the story has always deserved. Walk into Miller's Cornfield where the 1st Texas Infantry lost 82.6% of its men in under twenty minutes, a record that stood for the entire war. Stand at the Sunken Road where four hours of fighting consumed more than 5,500 casualties and gave that quiet farm lane a name it carries to this day. Cross Burnside's Bridge and understand how 400 Georgia soldiers held back 12,000 Federal troops for three hours on nothing but good ground and determination.This is not just military history. It is the story of what one day of human courage, catastrophic leadership failure, and political genius produced for a nation that was still deciding what it wanted to be.Whether you are a Civil War enthusiast, a student of American history, or simply someone who wants to understand how the United States arrived at the country it became, this book delivers the full story, every commander, every regiment, every turning point, written with the pace and energy of a story that refuses to let you put it down.The war changed on September 17, 1862. Find out exactly how, and why it still matters today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the morning of June 4th, 1942, five minutes changed the course of history.Not five hours. Not five days. Five minutes. That is all the time it took for three of the most powerful aircraft carriers in the Imperial Japanese Navy to erupt in flames - and for the Pacific War to be decided.But this victory did not begin in the sky. It began in a windowless basement at Pearl Harbor, where a small team of codebreakers quietly dismantled Japan's most secretive naval code and handed their commander something no admiral in the history of naval warfare had ever possessed: the complete battle plan of his enemy.The Battle of Midway tells the full, gripping story of how an outnumbered, outgunned American fleet turned a carefully constructed Japanese trap inside out - and in doing so, shifted the balance of the entire Pacific War in a single morning.Few people know that the Japanese fleet arrived at Midway already defeated - they just didn't know it yet. Fewer still know how close the whole thing came to falling apart, how one delayed reconnaissance plane, one pilot's hunch, and one speeding destroyer threading across the open ocean created the precise chain of events that ended with four Japanese carriers on the ocean floor.Inside these pages, you will follow Admiral Yamamoto's audacious gamble, the codebreakers who cracked his plan, the torpedo bomber crews who flew into certain death to create the opening that won the battle, and the dive bomber pilots who delivered the blow that ended Japan's dominance in the Pacific.This is not just military history. It is a story about intelligence, courage, and the extraordinary weight of five minutes.If you have ever wanted to understand how wars are truly decided - not by numbers alone, but by knowledge, nerve, and the decisions of individuals under impossible pressure - this book was written for you.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He was outnumbered, surrounded, and facing the most powerful military coalition the Kanto region had ever assembled against a single clan.He was thirty-one years old. And he chose to attack at night.What kind of leader looks at impossible odds and sees an opportunity instead of a defeat Hojo Ujiyasu was not simply a samurai general. He was the rare kind of leader that history produces once in a generation, a man who could win battles through tactical brilliance, govern a domain through genuine care for his people, and outmaneuver two of Japan's most celebrated warlords through diplomatic intelligence that was every bit as sharp as his sword.Few people know that the man who built the most dominant power base in Sengoku-era eastern Japan was never supposed to lead at all. Born the second son, thrust into succession by tragedy at age eleven, and handed the full weight of clan leadership at eighteen, Ujiyasu had every reason to stumble. Instead, he built a golden age.What you are about to discover will change how you see power, leadership, and legacy in one of history's most brutal eras.Inside this book, you will follow Ujiyasu from his earliest years under his father's demanding mentorship, through the night attack at Kawagoe that shattered a three-way coalition and announced him to the world, into the flood plains of the Sagami and Tama rivers where his governance transformed the lives of ordinary people, and across the complex diplomatic landscape where he held Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin at bay for decades.This is not a story about a warrior who only knew how to fight. It is a story about a leader who understood something that most of his contemporaries never grasped: that real power is built on the trust of the people you govern, not just the fear of the enemies you defeat.The hidden truth behind the Later Hojo Clan's remarkable rise is not found on the battlefield. It is found in the rivers he tamed, the markets he built, and the loyalty he earned from a people who had every reason to doubt him.This book is for readers who love Japanese history, samurai culture, and the Sengoku period. It is for anyone who has ever been fascinated by what genuine leadership looks like under the most unforgiving conditions imaginable. And it is for every reader who wants to understand not just what happened in feudal Japan, but why it happened and what it still means today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He was the most powerful man alive. He had everything. And he lost the one thing that made any of it matter.Long before Homer wrote of heroes, long before the great empires rose and fell, one story was already being told. Pressed into clay tablets over four thousand years ago, Gilgamesh is the oldest epic ever recorded, and it asks the same questions that keep people awake at night today: What does it mean to truly live What do we leave behind when we are gone And what happens to a man who discovers, far too late, that power was never the point Gilgamesh was no ordinary king. Born of a goddess and a mortal father, he ruled the ancient city of Uruk with a force that shook the earth beneath his people's feet. He built walls that reached the sky and temples that touched heaven. He was magnificent, unstoppable, and utterly alone in the way that only the most powerful people can be alone, surrounded by everyone and known by no one.Until Enkidu arrived.What followed their seven-day battle was not a defeat. It was the beginning of the only friendship either of them would ever truly have, a bond so real and so rare that when it was taken, it sent the greatest king in the world running to the edge of existence searching for a way to get it back.What he found there will stay with you long after you close the final page.This is not a mythology textbook. This is a story about grief so heavy it breaks a king, about pride so unchecked it costs the person you love most, about the desperate human need to matter beyond the years we are given. It is about the moment a man who had everything finally understood what everything actually meant.If you have ever lost someone irreplaceable, ever questioned what your life is building toward, or ever stood at the edge of your own limitations and wondered what comes next, this story was written for you. It was written four thousand years ago and it has not aged a single day.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed a document that did not just free the enslaved. It changed what America was willing to fight for.Most people know the name. Few people know the full story. Behind the Emancipation Proclamation lies a web of military failure, calculated timing, legal precision, and extraordinary human courage that most history books barely scratch the surface of.What you are about to discover will change how you see one of the most debated documents in American history. This was not simply a moral gesture from a president with a conscience. It was a war measure, deliberately framed, legally grounded, and strategically timed to strike at the economic backbone of a rebellion that had proven far harder to break than anyone had anticipated.Why did Lincoln wait months before issuing it Why did it free enslaved people in Confederate states but leave slavery untouched in five loyal states And why did Jefferson Davis call it an admission of weakness while Ulysses S. Grant called it a powerful ally Inside this book, you will discover the two pieces of legislation that quietly gave Lincoln the authority to act, the battlefield moment that gave him the timing, the razor-sharp analysis Frederick Douglass published before the ink was even dry, and the hundreds of thousands of men and women who answered the proclamation's call and became active participants in their own liberation.This is the story of a nation that changed the meaning of its own war in the middle of fighting it.Whether you are a history enthusiast, a student of American politics, or someone who wants to understand how legal power, moral courage, and military strategy collide at a turning point in history, this book was written for you.The proclamation declared freedom. The real story is what it took to make that declaration mean something.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He fought over 100 battles. He never lost a single one.He broke nine swords in one afternoon. He drowned 70,000 soldiers by weaponizing a river upstream. He sent 200,000 Roman soldiers off a cliff. And when the wars finally ended, he died quietly in a bed, wishing he had not.This is the true story of Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Sword of God. West Point, Sandhurst, and the U.S. Army War College still study his battles today. Not out of tradition. Out of necessity. Because what he did on those battlefields fourteen centuries ago still cannot be fully explained.He began as Islam's most dangerous enemy. He ended as its greatest military champion. He crossed a desert no army had ever survived. He took Damascus in a single night by climbing an eleven-meter wall in darkness. He ended 700 years of Roman authority in six days by pushing an entire empire off a cliff he had been driving it toward since the battle began.What you are about to discover will change how you see military history, faith, and what one human being is truly capable of.Inside these pages, you will find the full story: the tactics, the impossible gambles, the faith that held it all together, and the moment this undefeated general was ordered to lay down his sword and simply obeyed.If you love military history, forgotten legends, or simply great human stories told with honesty and depth, this book was written for you. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He was Rome's most powerful emperor. He was also her greatest contradiction.On the morning of June 9th, 68 AD, the man who had ruled the greatest empire on earth crouched in a borrowed villa outside Rome, abandoned by his guard, declared an enemy of the state, and guided a blade to his own throat. His last words were not a prayer or a plea. They were 'what an artist dies here.'That single sentence has haunted historians for two thousand years, because it refuses to let Nero be simple.NERO: The Rise and Fall of a Tyrant Who Shook the Roman Empire to Its Foundation is the complete, unflinching story of the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the bloodline of Augustus itself. From the ominous prophecy made at his birth, to the mother who declared she would accept her own murder if only her son could rule, to the sixteen-year-old boy thrust onto the most dangerous throne in the known world, this is the story history has never told completely enough.Few people know that the man remembered for fiddling while Rome burned was actually riding through the night to organise its rescue. Few people know that the tyrant of legend spent his first five years as one of Rome's most reform-minded rulers, banning political terror trials, protecting ordinary citizens from financial abuse, and governing with a generosity that earned genuine public love. The hidden truth behind Nero's catastrophic fall is not simply a story of cruelty. It is a story about what absolute power does to a person when every anchor holding them to their better self is slowly, systematically removed.Inside these pages you will follow the extraordinary campaign of his mother Agrippina, arguably the most dangerous political operator of the ancient world, as she engineered her son's path to power through marriage, manipulation, and murder. You will witness the murder she always said she accepted, and the moment it destroyed the son she had built. You will walk through the Great Fire of Rome, the golden palace built on its ashes, the conspiracy that nearly ended his reign, and the Greek tour of a man who wanted nothing more than to be recognised as an artist and could never escape the weight of being an emperor.This book is for anyone who has ever wondered whether history's greatest villains were always villains, or whether they were people whose circumstances, whose losses, and whose isolation produced something that better conditions might never have created.What you are about to discover will change how you see not just Nero, but power itself. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He captured a king, defied a throne, and changed the course of history forever.But almost no one knows his full story.In the heart of medieval England, one man dared to challenge the most powerful office in the land, not out of reckless ambition alone, but out of a burning conviction that power must answer to the people it governs. His name was Simon de Montfort, and what he set in motion in 1265 still shapes the world you live in today.Few people know that the very concept of parliamentary representation, the idea that ordinary citizens deserve a voice in how they are governed, did not emerge from a peaceful debate. It was born on the edge of a sword, forged in the chaos of civil war, and built by a French-born nobleman who became England's most dangerous rebel.What you are about to discover will change how you see democracy itself.This is not a dry history lesson. This is the story of a man torn between two worlds, a Frenchman who inherited English lands, a loyal servant who became a revolutionary, a ruler who captured a king and then tried to rebuild an entire system of government from the ground up. It is a story of ambition and principle, of brilliant victories and devastating defeat, of a life that ended in tragedy and a legacy that refused to die.Inside these pages, you will discover the real story behind the birth of the English Parliament and why it almost never happened. You will learn how one catastrophic military campaign transformed a loyal nobleman into the crown's most formidable enemy. You will uncover the hidden truth behind the Model Parliament of 1265 and what Simon de Montfort was really trying to build. You will understand why a king's own weaknesses created the conditions for the most consequential rebellion in medieval English history. And you will discover how a man branded a traitor became the Father of Parliament and one of the most significant figures in the history of democratic governance.His enemies tried to erase him. History refused.Whether you are a lover of history, a student of politics, or simply someone who has ever wondered where the idea of representative government truly came from, this book was written for you.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does it truly take to build a nation from nothing, and how close did America come to never existing at all In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men locked themselves inside a sweltering Philadelphia hall, swore oaths of secrecy, and set out to do something the world had never seen. They had no guarantee of success. They had no perfect blueprint. What they had was a crumbling republic on the edge of collapse, a population seething with anger, and the crushing weight of a question no revolution had ever answered: how do you build a government worthy of the freedom you just died for The Making of the United States Constitution takes you inside the room where it all happened. Behind the celebrated document that shaped modern democracy lies a story most people never hear. A story of desperate compromise, bitter rivalries, near-collapses, and the fragile decisions that either saved or condemned millions of lives.Few people know how close the entire convention came to falling apart. Few know that the man at the center of it all did not even want to be there. And fewer still reckon honestly with the moral failures sewn into the very fabric of the founding document, failures whose consequences echoed for generations in blood and suffering.What you are about to discover will change how you see American democracy, its genius, its contradictions, and the real human cost of its creation.Inside these pages, you will follow George Washington from reluctant retirement to the chair of the most consequential political gathering in American history. You will witness the fierce battle between large and small states that nearly destroyed the convention before it produced anything. You will sit inside the room where enslaved human beings were reduced to a fraction, where the seeds of civil war were quietly planted in the name of political necessity. And you will watch a fragile new government fight, state by state, for the nine votes it needed to exist at all.This book is for you if you want to understand where American democracy truly comes from, if you believe history is more powerful when told honestly rather than selectively, if you are fascinated by the decisions that shaped the modern world, and if you want a reading experience that feels urgent, human, and impossible to put down.The oldest living constitutional democracy on earth was not inevitable. It was argued into existence, compromised into shape, and held together by decisions made under impossible pressure.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : Hardcover, dust jacket, 104 pages, 80 color illustrations - This monograph dedicated to Wyatt Kahn encompasses his painting production from 2011 to 2017, and introduces his recent exploration of photography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three days. Two armies. One decision that changed America forever.In the summer of 1863, Robert E. Lee marched his legendary army into Pennsylvania carrying the last real hope the Confederacy had of winning the Civil War. He needed one decisive victory on Northern soil to shatter Union morale, secure British recognition, and force a peace that would make the Confederate States a permanent nation. What he got instead was Gettysburg.What most people never learn is how close it actually was. Cemetery Hill nearly fell on the first evening. Little Round Top was defended by a professor with empty rifles and a desperate bayonet charge. A single regiment of 262 men sacrificed themselves to buy the minutes that saved Cemetery Ridge. At the Angle, Confederate soldiers crossed the stone wall and briefly touched what history would call the High-Water Mark of the Confederacy. None of them came back.This is not a textbook account of troop movements and casualty figures. The Battle of Gettysburg is a ground-level, deeply human telling of the three days that broke the Confederacy's best chance at survival. Every decision, every miscalculation, every act of individual courage that bent the battle toward its outcome is laid bare with the clarity and urgency of a story that still matters.Inside, you will discover why Lee invaded the North and the dangerous miscalculation that shaped every decision he made. How Stuart's absence left the Confederate army blind at the worst possible moment. The real reason Ewell did not take Cemetery Hill when he had the chance. What Longstreet knew about Pickett's Charge before a single man stepped forward. How Chamberlain's 20th Maine held the left flank of the entire Union army with bayonets when the ammunition ran out. Why Gettysburg and Vicksburg together permanently closed the door on Confederate independence.Few people understand how many times the outcome nearly went the other way. This book does not let you look away from those moments. It places you inside them.Whether you are a Civil War enthusiast, a student of military history, or simply someone who wants to understand one of the most consequential events in American history, this book was written for you.The men who fought at Gettysburg paid everything for the outcome. The least we can do is understand what they decided and why it still matters.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the night of May 1st, 1863, two Confederate generals sat on a log in the Virginia darkness and made a decision that defied every rule of warfare.Robert E. Lee's army was outnumbered more than two to one. His best divisions were hundreds of miles away. The Union Army had crossed two rivers in secret, assembled 130,000 men behind his lines, and had him exactly where they wanted him.He attacked anyway.What followed became the most studied battle in American military history, a masterpiece of audacity, deception, and battlefield genius that military academies still teach today. Yet few people outside military circles know the full story of how Lee and Stonewall Jackson pulled off the impossible, or just how close they came to catastrophic failure at every single turn.The Battle of Chancellorsville takes you inside the complete story behind the Confederacy's boldest victory. You will discover how Joseph Hooker built the finest battle plan of the war and then lost his nerve at the most critical moment. You will follow Jackson's legendary flank march through the Virginia Wilderness and stand among the stunned Union soldiers when the hammer fell without warning. You will understand why Lee, after winning his greatest victory, admitted he was more depressed than after his worst defeat.Few people know that the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville almost collapsed at five separate moments. What saved it was not genius alone. It was one Union commander's failure of nerve at the worst possible time.Inside these pages you will also discover the inside story of Stonewall Jackson's fatal wounding by his own soldiers, the political crisis that destroyed Burnside and handed Hooker the command, the brilliance and heartbreaking collapse of the Union's boldest campaign plan, and why this single battle set the course for Gettysburg two months later.Whether you are a lifelong Civil War enthusiast, a student of military strategy, or simply someone who loves stories where history turned on the character of a single human being under unbearable pressure, this book was written for you.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A frozen ship. A forgotten promise. A deal that doubled a nation overnight.In the winter of 1802, a fleet of French warships sat locked in ice, just miles from setting sail for Louisiana. Had they broken free in time, the map of North America might look nothing like it does today.Few people know that the Louisiana Purchase almost never happened.Behind the largest land deal in history lies a story far stranger than the textbooks admit: a Spanish king who traded an entire American territory for a kingdom that turned out to be a hollow lie, a corrupt general paid in gold smuggled inside flour barrels, a botanist whose love of collecting plants accidentally saved New Orleans from French control a decade early, and a slave rebellion in Haiti that brought Napoleon's army to its knees before it ever crossed the Atlantic.The hidden truth behind America's rise to a continental power isn't strategy. It's accident, ego, disease, and a single ice storm that changed everything.This book pulls back the curtain on the real chain of events, the secret treaties, the failed conspiracies, the desperate diplomacy, and the catastrophic miscalculations, that handed the United States 828,000 square miles for four cents an acre.Why it matters: because the version of history you were taught left out almost everything interesting.What you'll gain: a vivid, character-driven understanding of how fragile and unplanned America's expansion truly was.Who this is for: readers who love narrative history, hidden political drama, and stories where the outcome was never guaranteed.What you're about to discover will change how you see the borders of your own country.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They were stolen from ordinary days. Walking home. Working in the fields. Feeding their children.And then they were gone.What happened to the estimated fifteen million African people swept into the transatlantic slave trade is not simply a chapter of history. It is the story of how the modern world was built, who built it, and what it truly cost. Few people know the full scope of what unfolded across those four hundred years of calculated terror, and fewer still have been told the complete truth about who these people were before the ships came for them.The Transatlantic Slave Trade: How Millions Were Enslaved, Transported, and Forced to Build the Atlantic World takes you inside the full arc of this history with unflinching honesty and deeply human storytelling.You will walk through the thriving African civilizations that existed long before European contact. You will witness the organized raids, the brutal marches, the airless castle dungeons at the edge of the continent, and the eight weeks of horror that defined the Middle Passage crossing. You will meet the men and women who refused to surrender, who organized revolts on the open ocean, who chose death over bondage, and who carried their culture, their language, and their dignity across an ocean that was designed to swallow all three.What you are about to discover will permanently change how you see the foundations of the modern world.This book reveals the real economics behind the slave trade, the corporations and financial institutions that profited from human suffering, and the agricultural knowledge that enslaved Africans brought with them that made the plantation economy possible. It traces the illegal trade that continued decades after abolition, follows the Amistad rebellion from a single nail to the Supreme Court, and confronts the legacy that no Atlantic society has yet fully reckoned with.This book is for anyone who believes that history should be told honestly, completely, and with the full humanity of every person at its center.The walk that millions of people never finished deserves to be understood.…