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This ebooks is included in the Ultimate Handheld US History Library CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT OVER 55,000 WORKS!  Simply the largest ebook library of American history ever published for your handheld device. For less than $0.01 per work its the most affordable.     Supreme Court ... more »

In an all-too-familiar situation, African Americans ( Afro-Americans or Negroes at the time of this writing) were falsely accused of crimes resulting in their death, this time by lynching. As you read this e-book, perhaps you will gain a deeper understanding of the struggle that African-American have ... more »

This authoritative, riveting, indispensable single-volume history of the Civil War -- from the opening engagement at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox -- looks at the role of African Americans and clandestine operations in the war, and examines the battle strategies and tactics of Lee, Grant ... more »

Armageddon is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastings-one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy "to stand with that of the best journalists and writers" ( New York Times ... more »

Bill Putney, a licensed veterinarian, joined the Marines in 1943. As chief veterinarian at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, he trained dogs for combat. At the end of the war, he learned the dogs he'd served with were being put to sleep. He called for enabling military handlers to bring home the dogs they ... more »

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa is Mungo Park's account of his first expedition to discover the River Niger and the fabled city of Timbuctoo. Travelling with only native guides, or for the latter part of his journey alone, Park endured tremendous hardships: he was repeatedly robbed, spent ... more »

A Band of Brothers for the Pacific, this is the gut-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious -- yet largely forgotten -- battle of World War II. Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish ... more »

The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Samuel Eliot Morison put it, "a story of adventure ... more »

"HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS." -old folk prayer In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm ... more »

From historian James Reston, Jr., comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, a year when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward adventure and conquest changed the world forever.   The Dogs of God chronicles one of the most savage epochs in human ... more »

On May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest of the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon. To adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as ... more »