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Colonial Armies in Africa 1850-1918 : Organisation, Warfare, Dress and Weapons
Peter Abbott
Hardcover - $92.95
In the second half of the 19th century, European-led columns began to fan out across the African continent from their coastal footholds, smashing whatever forces could be brought against them, no matter how brave or determined the latter were. The pr ...
The Guerilla Wars 1808-1814 : Napoleon's Spanish Nightmare
Andrea Press
Paperback - $54.95
A complete guide to the Spanish Guerrillas that fought against Napoleon's troops. Chapters with the different fighting tactics used in guerrilla warfare, biographies of the best known leaders, etc.Illustrated with many photographs, location maps and ...
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 : A Photographic Record
Stanley Appelbaum
Paperback - $21.95
128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings -- 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states -- the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.
Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel
Katherine Ashley
Paperback - $134.95
Edmond de Goncourt's four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers' joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between doc ...
To Befriend an Emperor : Betsy Balcombe's Memoirs of Napoleon on St Helena
Betsy Balcombe
Hardcover - $62.95
Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that unforgiving station in the Atlantic and, being a family man, he ...
Forge of Empires 1861-1871 : Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made
Michael Knox Beran
Hardcover - $47.95
Writing with the sweep of a Tolstoyan novel and the cinematic excitement of a Hollywood epic, acclaimed author Beran brings to life a compelling cast of characters who have ushered in or witnessed the events of the revolutionary decade, 1861-1870. Il ...
The Klondike Quest : A Photographic Essay 1897-1899
Pierre Berton
Paperback - $47.95
"The most photographed event in America during the 19th century.
More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movem ...
Sister Janet : Nurse and Heroine of the Anglo-Zulu War
Brian Best
Hardcover - $65.95
Janet Well's achievements make for fascinating reading. She was only 18 when decorated for her nursing service to the Russians in the 1878 Balkan War. The following year she became the only nurse to serve at the Front in the Anglo Zulu War. After a p ...