Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting written by soldiers and generals on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Without question, the most famous battle of the war took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which happened to be a transportation hub that served as the center of a wheel with several roads leading out to other Pennsylvanian towns...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the prison written by officials and inmates *Describes the various parts of the prison, the Battle of Alcatraz, and escape attempts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “It’s mighty good to get up and leave...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes Wright's quotes about his life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes quotes by people interned and administration officials in charge of the internment *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “I don't want any of them here...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Nazi Germany's experiments written by its scientists *Profiles famous scientists like Wernher von Braun and their accomplishments *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents After the last shots of World War II were fired and the process of rebuilding Germany and Europe began, the Western Allies and the Soviet Union each tried to obtain the services of the Third Reich's leading scientists, especially those involved in rocketry, missile technology, and aerospace research...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Alabama's raids and battles written by its sailors and captain *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “God helps those who help themselves...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of both World Trade Centers For 30 years, the Twin Towers were the most dramatic features of the New York skyline, and for a short while one of the towers could boast of being the tallest building in the world...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes an account of the Dearborn Massacre by an American soldier *Includes online resources, footnotes, and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “We had marched half a mile, when we were attacked by 600 Kickapoo and Wynbago Indians...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts describing the Spartan military *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “The only men in the world with whom war brought a respite from training for war...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of fighting by soldiers on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “We in the tower were given a chance to view the holocaust...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts describing the candidates, the conventions, and the election *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readers *Includes a table of contents "It is impossible, at so early a time, to obtain the result...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the integration, including Meredith's own *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Though Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence wrote that the United States would be founded on the principles that all men were created equal, nearly 200 years would pass before the principle was put into any real practice...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes Pinochet's quotes about his life and career *Includes contemporary accounts about Pinochet's reign and controversies about his human rights record *Includes online resources, footnotes, and a bibliography “Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Profiles Spangler's life and looks at the theories and suspects regarding her disappearance *Includes online resources, footnotes, and a bibliography for further reading "Can't wait any longer, Going to see Dr...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of purported UFO sightings and Roswell *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “The point is that the idea of space vehicles shaped like flying saucers was imprinted in the national psyche for many years prior to 1947, when the Roswell incident took place...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures depicting important people, places, and events. *Includes excerpts from firsthand accounts of explorers and colonists associated with Roanoke and Jamestown. *Explains the relationship between John Smith and Pocahontas...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the USS Maine's explosion and the war written by soldiers and sailors *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “A splendid little war...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the truce written by soldiers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “It was absolutely astounding, and if I had seen it on a cinematograph film I should have sworn that it was faked!” - Captain Sir Edward Hulse of the Scots Guards on the Christmas Truce (Groom, 2002, 85)...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the campaign written by soldiers and generals *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Jackson and his army, in one month, have routed Milroy—annihilated Banks—discomfited Frémont, and overthrown Shields! Was there ever such a series of victories won by an inferior force by dauntless courage and consummate generalship?” – An anonymous newspaper correspondent for the Richmond Whig, June 6, 1862 Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson had been a virtual unknown upon his arrival at the front line of First Bull Run, but by the spring of 1862, thanks to his actions at that battle, “Stonewall” was already becoming known across the battlefields...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Profiles some of the most sought after legendary creatures like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “The Loch Ness Monster is the world-famous creature said to inhabit Loch Ness in northern Scotland...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Profiles the various people and machines behind the cryptology efforts, such as Enigma and MAGIC *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Alcatraz written by prisoners *Profiles the most famous escape attempts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “You were a number, you weren’t a name; I wasn’t Jim Quillen...read more