Product Description: A stunning collision of militaray eras--The heroic and tragic final campaign of the U.S. horseback cavalry against the mechanized Japanese Army of World War II

Product Description: W hen the first Pilgrims arrived on the shores of Massachusetts, they set foot in a world full of promise and new beginnings. Colonists witnessed the births of new children, governments and traditions, but even the Puritans could not wholly escape the Old World’s basest human instincts...read more

Tells the story of the United States Army deserters, most of whom were Irish immigrants, who battled for Mexico in the Mexican War.

A comprehensive history of the Secret Service provides coverage of assassinations and assassination attempts, presidential demands on the agency, the impact of a Secret Service career on its agents, and issues surrounding agency failures and gender gaps. Reprint.

The story of a hair-raising 1876 rescue mission chronicles the rescue of six Irish political prisoners from a British prison in Fremantale, Australia, by the American whaling ship Catalpa, under the leadership of Captain George Anthony. Reprint.

The story of a hair-raising 1876 rescue mission chronicles the rescue of six Irish political prisoners from a British prison in Fremantale, Australia, by the American whaling ship Catalpa, under the leadership of Captain George Anthony. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This astonishing Civil War story follows the real-life exploits of a married couple who fought side-by-side as soldiers for the North, the South, and finally for a band of marauding, pro-Union partisans. Based on primary source material from the Watuga County, North Carolina archives, Rebels in Blue provides a fast-paced, gripping narrative of uncommon love and blind revenge set against the turmoil of the Civil War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The story of the immigrants, mostly Irishmen, who deserted from the US Army to fight valiantly as a Mexican Army unit during the Mexican War of 1846-1848.

Product Description: Like many athletes, golfers are always looking for new ways to improve their game. Now, in this innovative and revolutionary book, Ted Kiegiel shows golfers of all levels how turning to Eastern philosophy can shave points off their handicap...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences...read more

Twenty-five stories of firsts in America relate the stories of men and women who have been unjustly robbed of their historical due for their early contributions to a young nation