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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne-Stephen E. Ambrose
As good a title company as any in the world, Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments--responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. The book tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 333pp. Pictorial SOFTCOVER. Clean, tight, and unmarked pages throughout. Appears gently read. FINE.
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Black Profiles in Courage: a Legacy of African-American Achievement-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Alan Steinberg
Abdul-Jabbar focuses on extraordinarily courageous black men and women who typified the virtues of integrity, discipline, and self-respect. Taken together, their lives form a legacy from which African Americans of all ages can draw inspiration, wisdom, and pride. Some of these courageous heroes include Peter Salem - the slave, blacksmith, and volunteer soldier who turned the tide at Bunker Hill; Joseph Cinque - the leader of a daring revolt on the slave ship Amistad; Frederick Douglass - a self-taught writer and orator who escaped slavery and became one of the most famous black leaders of the nineteenth century; Harriet Tubman - the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, who was also a spy and scout for the Union Army; Lewis Latimera son of slaves, whose scientific work was integral to the achievements of Alexander Graham Bell, Hiram S. Maxim, and Thomas Edison. 232pp. Hardback with glossy dustjacket. Like new condition.
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City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects-Lewis Mumford
This magnificent and vitally important book by the master of the study of urban culture opens with a city that was a world and closes with a world that, potentially, has become a city. It reinterprets the origins of the city on the basis of newly discovered evidence about early man, and move through succeeding urban cultures--Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, the medieval cities and monasteries, the rising industrial centers, concluding with the tumultuous modern period of nuclear power. It is an engrossing story of the past and the troubled present; it is also a prophecy for the future---of the city and of human civilization, threatened as it is by wholesale destruction from both within and without. Winner of the 1962 National Book Award. 657pp. Binding is black cloth on boards, black lettering on red block on spine. Overize fine hardcover with very good dustjacket. Original price unclipped.
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