This text provides basic background information about the Avatar Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, whose message is that all religions are equally valid, and all people are essentially divine. It is also a reference work for topics and terms frequently found in Sai Baba's writings.
With scorecards, maps, color photos, and helpful hints for most holes, this guide is an essential reference tool for the traveling golfer. Telling the history of the 75 courses and information on the designers who built them as well as the pros who have set their records, this thorough guide is as visually stunning as it is informative. Aerial and ...
'The cliche that you must read the diary of a common soldier if you wish to know what war is really like never had finer affirmation than in this absorbing release' - "Saturday Review". This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against ...
Charles Steel took part in two military disasters--the Fall of France and the Dunkirk Evacuation, and the Fall of Singapore. Shortly before the latter, he married Louise. Within days of being captured by the Japanese, he began writing a weekly letter to his new bride as means of keeping in touch with her in his mind, for the Japanese forbade all ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a renowned cavalryman who fought during the American Civil War. This book presents an analysis of his life, from childhood in Mississippi, to wealth from the slave trade, his role as founder and Grand Wizard of the first Ku Klux Klan, and his death.
Historian Brian Wills takes readers on a journey through the portrayal of the war in film, exploring what Hollywood got right and wrong, how the films influenced each other, and, ultimately, how the movies reflect America's changing understandings of the conflict and of the nation. From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain hundreds of directors, ...
This book examines the plastic design and behaviour of main frames, both low rise industrial and agricultural, and multi-storey. Topics which concern practitioners and students alike such as member and frame stability, restraints and connections are covered in clear and detailed presentations. The explanations are backed up by a large number of ...
In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond, Isle of Wight, and Southampton Counties, the Suffolk campaign followed an exhausting and deadly pattem. Already subjected to the ...
"You are making history today," the University of Virginia Extension Division agent Sarnuel Crockett observed to a gathering of students and faculty on September 15, 1954, in Wise, Virginia. The occasion was the opening convocation of what would become Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, and the 109 students assembled, many of ...
This collection of letters from a rising Confederate officer to his wife provide an insight into the mind of a wartime commander. He describes the rigours of military life in this period, his career aspirations and his own candid opinions on such important figures of the time as Robert E. Lee.
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Robert M. McBride and Co.
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good + No Jacket. Hard Cover. G +/No Jacket. Stated 1st Edition. 4.5x6.5. A green book with gold ltg. and it has 496 pgs. with index. It is illustrated in b/w with great old pictures and maps. read more
Description: VERY GOOD. Rare item. Silver cover, large format. About 60 politicians and other famous Scots from business, performing arts, the arts etc. reflect on their Scottishness. Excellect photography. 166 pages. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1992
Description: 9.25" x 6". 457pp. Gray paper covered boards with a black cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; near fine jacket. Forrest was described by Bruce Catton as "one of the authentic geniuses" of the Civil War. With a foreword by Emory M. Thomas. read more
Description: First printing. Wraps, 8vo, 346 pp. A reading copy with highlighting to text throughout, numerous page corners turned, wrappers a bit worn. read more
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