Alan Axelrod
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Provides a comprehensive overview of American history, from the arrival of the first people on the continent through the coming of the millennium, with capsule histories of major events, brief biographies of key people, digests of important statistics, and definitions of historical terms.
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[2008]
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In an engrossing anecdotal format, historian and bestselling author Alan Axelrod turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making, and explores history's most tragic errors, the people who made them, and why they happened.
While Axelrod looks at the hopelessly dumb and the overtly evil, the main focus is on smart people who had the best of intentions, but whose plans went disastrously wrong. The 35 compelling stories include the sailing of the...
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Pub. Date
c2013
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Strange facts and bizarre anecdotes from centuries of armed conflict fought with everything from machetes to machine guns.
In this thought-provoking and highly entertaining book, Alan Axelrod, author of “The Real History of World War II” and many other titles, takes a journey through some of the lesser-known aspects of military history. Discover over a hundred fascinating, startling, or just plain odd facts and stories:
• Commanders-the good,...
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Provides a comprehensive overview of the Civil War, from the succession of the Southern States and the first shots at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, April 12, 1861 to Lee's surrender at Appomattox in Virginia, April 9, 1865, discussing all of the key battles and major skirmishes, and offering impressions and anecdotes from generals, soldiers, and civilians.
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Pub. Date
1993
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From the moment that Europeans landed on America's shores, they engaged in bloody conflict with the natives they encountered. Tensions and hostilities bred in the colonial wars with the Spanish, English, French, and Dutch would lead inevitably to the later wars of the removal period, skirmishes on the western Plains, and, ultimately, the confrontation at Wounded Knee. Now, captured here in the words of those who lived it, is the epic, violent history...
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[Real history volume 5th
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c2013.
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"Examines the history of Vietnam leading up to the war, investigates the reasons for the conflict, looks at the war's escalation and progression (or lack thereof), and explores its repercussions then and now"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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Alan Axelrod recounts the key events of World War II with unflagging humanity, drama, and straightforward explanations of their significance, weaving a story as engrossing and multifaceted as a great novel. It's a unique approach that makes this enormous saga understandable to every reader, and favors gripping storytelling over a strictly dry and plodding chronological account. Axelrod brings you right into every theater of the war, one by one, capturing...