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Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)

tennis player, military officer

  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Days of grace
A hard road to glory
Arthur Ashe on tennis
Off the court
Arthur Ashe
Off the court
Off the court
Off the court
Days of grace
Arthur Ashe
Getting started in tennis
Arthur Ashe on Tennis
Arthur Ashe's tennis clinic
A hard road to glory--football
A hard road to glory--basketball
A hard road to glory--track & field
A hard road to glory--boxing
Arthur Ashe, portrait in motion
Days of grace
A Hard Road to Glory, 1919-1945
A Hard Road to Glory, 1946-1969
A hard road toglory
Hard Road to Glory, A
DAYS OF GRACE
Advantage Ashe
Arthur Ashe
Days of Grace
Arthur Ashe on tennis : strokes, strategy, traditions, players, psychology, and wisdom
Days of Grace
Rudolf Höss
Rudolf Höss (1901-1947)

war criminal, military officer, politician, Beamter

  • Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim

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Kommandant in Auschwitz
KL Auschwitz seen by the SS
Commandant of Auschwitz
KL Auschwitz seen by the SS
Death dealer
Kommandant in Auschwitz
Kommandant in Auschwitz
Ha- Komandant me-Oshvits me'id
Commandant of Auschwitz
Death Dealer
KL Auschwitz seen by the SS
Commandant of Auschwitz
Kommandant in Auschwitz
Kommandant in Auschwitz
Adolf Eichmann
Kommandant in Auschwitz
Comandante ad Auschwitz
Commandant of Auschwitz
Robert Timberg
Robert Timberg (1940-2016)

military officer, journalist

  • Stanford University, United States Naval Academy

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State of grace
John McCain
The nightingale's song
Blue-eyed boy
John McCain
John McCain (1936-2018)

politician, naval officer, autobiographer, fighter pilot, aircraft pilot, television presenter

  • United States Naval Academy, National War College

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Faith of my fathers
Worth the fighting for
Last letters home
Hard call
The restless wave
Thirteen soldiers
The restless wave
Hard call
Hard Call
Thirteen soldiers
Last letters home
Hard call
The restless wave
Why courage matters
Obama Vs Mccain Voting Records Of Barack Obama John Mccain For The 109th And 110th Congress
Character is destiny
Forging a military youth corps
Why courage matters
Deterrence in decay
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born 1930)

air force officer, fighter pilot, astronaut, autobiographer, engineer, businessperson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy

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Reaching for the Moon
Magnificent Desolation
No dream is too high
The return
Encounter with Tiber
First on the moon
Mission to Mars
Men from earth
Guinness World Records 2017
Look to the stars
Welcome to Mars
Return to earth
Reaching for the Moon
Buzz Aldrin Reaching for the Moon
Return to earth
Return to Earth
Paper astronaut
Men From Earth
Return to Earth
Space Atlas
The Everyday Space Traveler Discover 9 Lifeaffirming Insights Into The Wonders Of Inner And Outer Space
To the Moon and Back
Return
Men from Earth-19.95
The Wright Stuff
Men from Earth
Investing in Our Future
Galileo for Kids
Space 2.0 Lib/E
Guinness Dünya Rekorlar Kitabi 2017
Die Rückkehr.
NASA
Space Encyclopedia
Space 2. 0
Beyond Flagpoles and Footprints
Return to Earth
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1499-1558)

conquistador, explorer, military personnel, historian

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Relación y comentarios
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the unknown interior of America
The narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
The South American expeditions, 1540-1545
The journey and ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition
Castaways
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Naufragios (Viajes)
Naufragios y comentarios/Shipwrecks and commentaries (Cronicas De America)
Narrative of the Narváez expedition
Naufragios y comentarios
Los naufragios
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Historiadores primitivos de Indias
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The Shipwrecked Men
The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
The Account
Relación de los naufragios y Comentarios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Relation et naufrages d'Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Los Comentarios de Alvar Núñez
Naufragios y comentarios
Naufragios (COLECCION HISTORIA) (Humanidades / Humanities)
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Relación de los naufragios y Comentarios de Alvar Nú?nez Cabeza de Vaca ... ilustrados con varios documentos inéditos .
Relation de voyage
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
Adventures in the unknown interior of America
Relation of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios
Naufragios y comentarios / Disasters and Commentaries
The power within us
Commentaires d'Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Naufragios
The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
La relacion y comentarios del gouernador Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, de lo acaescido en las dos jornadas que hizo a las Indias
The narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
Naufragios y Comentarios
The narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios (Intemporales)
Naufragios y comentarios
The Account of Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios y comentarios, con dos cartas
Relation that Alvar Núñez Cabeça de Vaca gave of what befel the armament in the Indias whither Pánphilo de Narváez went for governor (from the years 1527 to 1537) when with three comrades he returned and came to Sevilla.+
Adventures In The Unknown Interior Of America
The journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
The journey of Alvar N©Øu©Þnez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528- 1536
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Naufragios
Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Relation of Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
Relación de Los Naufragios y Comentarios de Alvar Nú?nez Cabeza de Vaca ... Ilustrados con Varios Documentos Inéditos; 6
Relation et naufrages
Naufragios Y Comentarios (Relecturas Viajes)
The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to ...
Naufragios y comentarios
Comentarios
Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536;
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Historiadores Primitivos de Indias
Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
Narrative Of The Narvaez Expedition
The shipwrecked men
Naufragios
Naufrágios E Comentários - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Relacion de Los Naufragios y Comentarios; Volume 1
Castaways
La relacion que dio Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en la armada donde yua por gouernador Pa[m]philo de Narbaez, desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año d[e] treynta y seys que boluio a Seuilla con tres de su compañia
Naufragios y comentarios con dos cartas
Naufragios y Comentarios (Ilustrado)
Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Naufragios y relación de la jornada que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Pánfilo Narvaez
Naufragios
Naufragios
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
Naufragios
Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca
Relacion de los Naufragios y Comentarios
Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555. ) I. Voyage of Ulrich Schmidt to the Rivers la Plata and Paraguai. from the Original German Ed. , 1567. II. the Commentaries of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. from the Original Spanish Ed. , 1555. Tr. from The...
Relacion de los Naufragios y Comentarios
Los naufragios y relacioń
Naufragios
Relación De Los Naufragios Y Comentarios De Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Comentarios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, adelantado, y governador del Rio de la Plata
Relacion de Los Naufragios y Comentarios
Commentaires d'alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, ... valladolid, 1555...
Naufragios
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
La relacion y comentarios del gouernador Aluar Nuẽz Cabeca de Vaca, de lo acaescido en las dos jornadas que hizo a las Indias
Adventures in the Unknown
Relación De Los Naufragios Y Comentarios De Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
NAUFRAGIOS
Naufragios y relación de la jornada que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Pánfilo Narvaez
Naufragios
Los Comentarios de Alvar Núñez
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeca de Vaca
De Vaca's journey to New Mexico, 1535-63
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Naufragios
The journey of Alvar NuSnez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543
Vida y Naufragios de Cabeza de Vaca
The narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)

explorer, diplomat, historian, military personnel, photographer, traveler, botanical collector

  • University of Oxford, Eton College

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The Marsh Arabs
My Life and Travels
Desert, Marsh and Mountain
My Kenya days
The life of my choice
Arabian sands
Wild
The last nomad
Danakil Diary
A Vanished World
Among the Mountains
The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library)
La Vie que j'ai choisie
The Thesiger Collection
Crossing the Sands
Desert, Marsh and Mountain (Memoirs of Arabia)
The desert
Visions of a Nomad (Memoirs of Arabia)
Les Arabes des marais irakiens
Les déserts des déserts
Die Brunnen der Wüste. Mit den Beduinen durch das unbekannte Arabien
Visions of a nomad
Désert des déserts
Among the Mountains Travels In Asia
Wilfred Thesiger's photographs
A journey in Nuristan
Desert Marsh + Mnt De Lux
Arabian sands
Wüste, Sumpf und Berge
Carnets dAbyssinie
Arenas de Arabia
On the edge
Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau
Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871)

explorer, landscape architect, politician, military personnel, architect, world traveler, art historian

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Entre chien et loup
Puckler's progress
Letters of a dead man
Der Vorläufer
Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei
Hints on landscape gardening
Tour in England, Ireland, and France
Aus Mehemed Aliʼs Reich
Tutti frutti; aus den Papieren des Verstorbenen
Briefe eines verstoreaen. English. [from old catalog]
Travels and adventures in Algiers, and other parts of Africa
A regency visitor
Briefe eines Verstorbenen
Puckler's progress
Tour in England, Ireland and France in the years 1828 and 1829 by a German Prince
Frauenbriefe von und an Hermann Fürsten Pückler-Muskau
Jugend-Wanderungen
Orientalische Reisen
Südöstlicher Bildersaal
Semilasso in Afrika
Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1828 & 1829
Ironie des Lebens
Tutti frutti, by the author of 'The tour of a German prince' [tr. by E. Spencer]
Semilasso in Africa
Vorletzter Weltgang
Briefe eines verstorbenen: Ein fragmentarisches Tagebuch
Tutti frutti
Briefe aus der Schweiz
Fürst Pückler reist nach England
Egypt and Mehemet Ali
Der Vorläufer
Semilassos vorletzter Weltgang
Vorletzter Weltgang von Semilasso
Die Rückkehr
Reisebriefe aus Irland
Briefe eines Verstorbenen
Reisebriefe aus England und Irland. Eine Auswahl aus den 'Briefen eines Verstorbenen'
Jugend-wanderungen: Aus meinen Tagebüchern, für mich und andere
Aus Mehemed Ali's Reich
How strong is Britain?
Fürst Pücklers orientalische Reisen
Liebesbriefe eines alten Kavaliers
Tutti Frutti V2
Briefwechsel und Tagebücher des Fürsten Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Tutti frutti
Egypt under Mehemet Ali
Chroniques, lettres et journal de voyage
Fürst Pu ckler reist nach England
Ironie des Lebens
Frauenbriefe von und an Hermann Fu rsten Pu ckler-Muskau
Tutti frutti
entre chien et loup 2
Briefe Eines Verstorbenen. Zweite Auflage. Zweiter Theil
Die Rückkehr, Dritter Theil
Südöstlicher Bildersaal
[Atlas zu den Andeutungen über Landschaftsgærtnerei
Südöstlicher Bildersaal, Zweiter BAnd
Briefwechsel und Tagebücher des Fürsten Hermann Von Pückler-Muskau; Volume 5
Briefwechsel und Tagebücher des Fürsten Hermann Von Pückler-Muskau, Sechster Band
Tour in England, Ireland, and France : In the Years 1828, 1829 : With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Chararcters
Semilasso in Afrika
Die Rückkehr
Tour in England, Ireland, and France in the Years 1828 & 1829; Volume I
Aus Dem Nachlass des Fürsten Pückler-Muskau
Semilasso in Afrika, Dritter Theil
Vorletzter Weltgang, Erster Theil, Dritte Abtheilung
Tutti frutti
Geliebter Pascha! Feurigste Gnomin!
Tour in Germany, Holland and England, in the years 1826, 1827, & 1828
Tuttolasso's Wanderungen Durch Deutschland, Polen, Ungarn und Griechenland Im Jahre 1836
Hints on Landscape Gardening
Fürst Pückler reist nach England
Tour in England, Ireland, and France
Jugend-Wanderungen
Tour in England, Ireland, and France
Semilasso in Afrika, Erster Theil
Semilasso in Afrika, Vierter Theil
Briefe Eines Verstorbenen. ein Fragmentarisches Tagebuch Aus England, Wales, Irland und Frankreich, Geschrieben in Den Jahren 1828 und 1829. Erster Theil. Zweite Auflage
Briefwechsel und Tagebücher des Fürsten Hermann Von Pückler-Muskau; Volume 9
Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1828, & 1829;...
Reminiscenzen Für Semilasso Von Homogalakto
Semilasso in Africa
Semilasso in Afrika, Fuenfter Theil
Südöstlicher Bildersaal; Volume 2
Tutti Frutti; Aus Den Papieren des Verstorbenen, Zweiter Band
Jugend-Wanderungen
Tutti Frutti
Egypt Under Mehemet Ali
Ausgewählte Werke in zwei Bänden
Südöstlicher Bildersaal; Dritter Band
Aus Mehemed Ali's Reich. Zweiter Theil
FÜRST PÜCKLER REIST IN FRANKEN
Südöstlicher Bildersaal, Vol. 3: Griechische Leiden, Zweiter Theil (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)
Vorletzter Weltgang von Semilasso
Südöstlicher Bildersaal; Volume 3
Griechische Leiden, Dritter Band
Travels and Adventures in Algiers, and Other Parts of Africa; Volume 2
Briefwechsel und Tagebücher des Fürsten Hermann von Pückler-muskau
Tutti Frutti, by the Author of 'the Tour of a German Prince' [Tr. by E. Spencer]
Tour in England, Ireland and France in the Years 1828 and 1829 by a German Prince; Volume 4
Reisebriefe aus Irland
Briefe Eines Verstorbenen
Briefe eines Verstorbenen
Acapickels drücken sich aus
Briefe eines verstorbenen: Ein fragmentarisches Tagebuch aus England, Wales ...
Briefwechsel und Tagebücher des Fürsten Hermann von Pückler-muskau
Semilasso in Afrika, Vol. 4
Semilasso's Vorletzter Weltgang. 1. Band
Liebesbriefe eines alten kavaliers
A regency visitor