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James Brady
James Brady (1928-2009)

columnist, journalist, military officer

  • Manhattan University

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The Coldest War
Hero of the Pacific
Superchic
Hero of the Pacific
Hero of the Pacific
Warning of War
The Marines of Autumn
The House That Ate the Hamptons
The Marine
Gin Lane
Why Marines Fight
A Hamptons Christmas
The Scariest Place in the World
Further lane
Designs
Fashion show, or, The adventures of Bingo Marsh
Nielsen's children
Paris One
The press lord
Gin Lane
Gin Lane
Holy wars
Further Lane
In those days it was different
The Marines of Autumn
In the maw of the earth monster
The Rewrites
Coldest War a Memoir of Korea 1ST Edition
Elemental
Hamptons Christmas
Fashion Show-19.95
Fashion Show, or, the Adventures of Bingo Marsh
Holy wars
Chemistry : Matter and Its Changes
The House That Ate the Hamptons
Chemistry : Matter and Its Changes
Strange Encounters
Rocking H
To Mourn the Living
Chemistry
Ideas about Agriculture in the Political Economy of Japan
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)

military officer, lawyer, banker

  • United States Military Academy

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Sherman's Civil War
Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman
War Is Hell! Sherman in Georgia
The Capture of Atlanta and the March to the Sea
Memoirs of General
Words of Ages
The Sherman letters
General W.T. Sherman as college president
General Sherman's official account of his great march through Georgia and the Carolinas
General William T. Sherman's Address: New York City, May 30th. 1878
Major-General Sherman's reports
Reply of Maj. Gen. Sherman to the mayor of Atlanta
Home Letters Of General Sherman
Sherman's Civil War
Commanding voices of blue & gray
Recollections of California, 1846-1861
Major-General Sherman's reports
To the people of east Florida
Home Letters of General Sherman
Paper Read Before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at Its 21st Annual Reunion at Toledo, O. , Sept. 15 1888
From Atlanta to the Sea
Revolutionary document
Supplemental Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Home Letters of General Sherman
Who burnt Columbia?
Capture of Atlanta and the March to the Sea
Sherman and the San Francisco vigilantes
A letter of Lieut. W.T. Sherman reporting on conditions in California in 1848
The California gold fields in 1848
Addresses delivered at the third annual commencement of the Law Department of Georgetown University
The surrender of Gen. Johnston
Microfilm edition of the William Tecumseh Sherman family papers, 1808-1891
Travel accounts of General William T. Sherman to Spokan Falls, Washington Territory, in the summers of 1877 and 1883
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Correspondence between General W.T. Sherman, U.S. Army and Major General W.S. Hancock, U.S. Army
From Atlanta to the sea
Sherman's march to the sea
Address of General W. T. Sherman to the graduating class of the Michigan military academy, at Orchard Lake, June 19, 1879
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)

explorer, sailor, researcher, polar explorer, aircraft pilot, traveler, naval aviator, film director

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Roald Amundsen
My Life As an Explorer
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen
Sydpolen
The Amundsen photographs
Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"
The South Pole
The North West Passage
The South Pole
Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"
The South Pole, Volume 1
Race to the South Pole (The Great Adventures)
Mitt liv som polarforsker
Roald Amundsen's "The North-West Passage": Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa", 1903-1907
Our polar flight
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
South Pole Vol. 2
The South Pole
Nordvestpassasjen
The South Pole
South Pole : Volume 1
The South Pole
North West Passage, Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Gyöa 1903-1907; Volume 1
The South Pole, Volume 2
North West Passage
First crossing of the Polar Sea
Capt. Amundsen's own narrative of his attainment of the South pole
The North West Passage, Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gyöa" 1903-1907; Volume 1
South Pole : Volume 2
Al Polo Norte en avión
Die Nordwest-Passage (German Edition)
Roald Amundsen--my life as an explorer
The first flight across the Polar Sea
The North West Passage V1
North West Passage : Volume 1
Wettlauf zum Südpol. Die norwegische Expedition 1910 - 1912
Le passage du Nord-Ouest
The South Pole; an Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912
Our Polar Flight:
Die Nordwest-Passage
Aan de Zuidpool
My life as an explorer
Au Pôle Sud
The North West Passage
To the South Pole
Die Eroberung des Südpols 1910 - 1912
Die Eroberung des Südpols
Roald Amundsen's "the North West Passage"
South Pole Set
Aan de Zuidpool
Dagboken fra Belgica-ekspedisjonen 1897-99
Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"
Roald Amundsen's the North West Passage
To the north magnetic pole through the Northwest passage
My polar flight
North West Passage : Volume 2
Die Nordwestpassage. Meine Polarfahrt mit der Gjöa 1903 - 1907
Roald Amundsen's "The North West Passage"
Sydpolen, den norske sydpolsfærd med Fram, 1910-1912
Roald Amundsens Belgica-dagboek
Roald Amundsen
The North West Passage
Roald Amundsen's "the North West passage"
To the north magnetic pole and through the Northwest Passage (SJS 149)
Roald Amundsen
The South Pole : an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912
Die Eroberung des Südpols
To the North Magnetic Pole and through the North-West Passage
Nordvestpassagen
The Northwest passage
Die Nordwest-Passage
Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"
First Crossing of the Polar Sea
Nordostpassagen
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)

politician, military officer, photographer, businessperson, aircraft pilot

  • University of Arizona, Arizona State University

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With no apologies
Goldwater
The Eyes of His Soul
The Conscience of a Conservative
Where I stand
The coming breakpoint
The conscience of a majority
Why not victory?
The conscience of a conservative
Goldwater either/or
Delightful journey, down the Green & Colorado rivers
Arizona portraits
Barry Goldwater and the Southwest
Goldwater from A to Z
The state of our industry and raw materials in relation to defense
The face of Arizona
The Conscience of a Conservative (The James Madison Library in American Politics)
China and the abrogation of treaties
People and places
The political principles of Senator Barry W. Goldwater as revealed in his speeches and writings
Barry Goldwater speaks out on the issues
The conscience of a Conservative
Why not victory?
The political principles of Senator Barry W. Goldwater as revealed in his speeches and writings
Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam (born 1943)

flight engineer, autobiographer, soldier, coal miner, scuba diver, aerospace engineer

  • Virginia Tech

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The Coalwood way
Rocket boys
Rocket Boys
Sky of stone
Sky of Stone
October sky
My Dream of Stars
Red Helmet
The ambassador's son
The keeper's son
The Ambassador's Son (Josh Thurlow Novels)
The Dinosaur Hunter
We are not afraid
The far reaches
The Ambassador's Son
The Far Reaches
The Keeper's Son (Josh Thurlow Novels)
Torpedo Junction
Back to the Moon
Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company
Back to the moon
Torpedo junction
Back to the moon
Red helmet
Far Reaches
October Sky
Torpedo Junction
Carrying Albert Home
Crater
Rocket Boys. Roman einer Jugend
Carrying Albert home
The ambassador's son
The far reaches
Dinosaur Hunter
Red Helmet
Viaje de Albert a Casa
Keeper's Son
Sky of Stone
The Coalwood Way
October Sky
Crescent
October Sky
Arubāto, kokyō ni kaeru
John Wooden
John Wooden (1910-2010)

military officer, basketball coach, basketball player

  • Purdue University, Indiana State University

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The wisdom of Wooden
A game plan for life
Quotable Wooden
Coach wooden's leadership game plan for success
The greatest coach ever
Coach Wooden One On One Inspiring Conversations On Purpose Passion And The Pursuit Of Success
Coach Wooden's pyramid of success playbook
The essential Wooden
Tuan dui, cong chuan qiu kai shi
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne (1722-1792)

politician, playwright, military personnel

  • Westminster School

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Hadden's journal and orderly books
Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign
A state of the expedition from Canada
The lord of the manor
The substance of General Burgoyne's speeches on Mr. Vyner's motion, on the 26th of May, and upon Mr. Hartley's motion, on the 28th of May, 1778
The maid of the oaks
A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents
The Dramatic And Poetical Works Of The Late Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne V2
A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents, upon his late resignation
Copy of Gen. Burgoyne's answer (dated July 8, 1775) to Gen. Lee's letter of June 7, 1775
Richard Coeur de Lion
A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constitutents upon his late resignation
A Brief examination of the plan and conduct of the northern expedition in America, in 1777
The dramatic and poetical works of the late Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne
A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents, upon his late resignation; with the correspondences between the secretaries of war and him, relative to his return to America
Orderly book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne, from his entry into the state of New York until his surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct. 1777
The heiress
Richard Coeur-de-Lion
Appendix to the Canada papers
The speech of a general officer in the House of Commons, February 20th, 1775
Orderly book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne
A supplement to The state of the expedition from Canada
A manager's guide to self-development
Substance of General Burgoyne's speeches at court-martial
The maid of the Oaks
Fruits & Vegetables 2006 Calendar
Bon ton; or, High Life above stairs
The heiress; a comedy in five acts ... as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Airs, duets, trios, &c. in the Lord of the Manor, a comic opera, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The music entirely new
The substance of General Burgoyne's speeches
The lord of the manor, a comic opera
A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents upon his late resignation
A state of the expedition from Canada
The heiress, a comedy in five acts
[The Lord of the manor]
Songs, chorusses, &c. in the pastoral entertainment of The maid of the oaks. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
The heiress
Prologue and epilogue to the play of The way to keep him
A brief examination of the plan and conduct of the northern expedition in America
The lord of the manor. A song from that opera
Appendix to the Canada papers
A supplement to The state of the expedition from Canada
Arrian
Arrian (0089-0175)

historian, politician, philosopher, military personnel

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Selected works.
Anabasis
Campaigns of Alexander
Alexander The Great
The Landmark Arrian
Alexander the Great
Der Alexanderzug i Indische Geschichte: Griechisch und deutsch (Sammlung Tusculum)
Arriano di Nicomedia
Historia de las expediciones de Alejandro
Periplus Ponti Euxini
Arriani Anabasis
Alexander the great in the Punjaub, from Arrian, book 5, with notes by C.E. Moberly
The Campaigns of Alexander
The Anabasis of Alexander; Or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great ..
Flavii Arriani quae exstant omnia
Alexander the Great
Flavius Arrianus
Arrian On Coursing
Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditio Alexandri: ad optimorum librorum fidem ..
Anabasis, books 1, 2
Le périple de la mer Noire
Technē taktika
The Campaigns of Alexander
Arrian's voyage round the Euxine Sea translated
Anabasis De Alejandro Magno
Arriani Nicomediensis Scripta Minora Rudolfus Hercher iterum recognovit
Arrianou Periplous Euxeinou pontou
Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander and Indica
Major Battles Of Alexander's Asian Campaign
Anabasi di Alessandro
Peri anabaseōs Alexandrou historiōn biblia hepta. Touautou Indika
Kynēgetikos
Periplo del Ponto Eusino
Peri anabaseōs Alexandrou historiōn biblia oktō. Arriani
Quae exstant omnia
Arriani Tactica et Mauricii Ars militaris
L' Inde [par] Arrien
De expedit. Alex. Magni
Arrian's History of Alexander's expedition
L' Inde
Alexanders des Grossen Siegeszug durch Asien
Arriani Anabasis et Indica
Arriani Nicomediensis espeditionis Alexandri libri septem et Historia Indica
The life of Alexander the Great
Arriani De ascensu Alexandri
Arriani Nicomedensis, noui Xenophontis appellati, De rebus gestis Alexa[n]dri Magni regis Macedonum libri octo
Arrian on coursing
Arrian, with an English translation
Arrian's history of the expedition of Alexander the Great, and conquest of Persia
De expedit. Alex. Magni, historiarum
Selections from Arrian
Arriani Tactica & Mauricii Artis militaris libri dvodecim
Anabasis Alexandri (and) Indica
Anabasis of Alexander and Indica
Arriani (qui alter Xenophon vocatus fuit) de expedit. Alex. Magni
De i fatti del magno Alessandro
Arrianou Technē taktikē
Ponti Euxini & maris Erythraei periplus, ad Adrianum Caesarem
The lamp of Epictetus
Takticheskie traktaty Flavii︠a︡ Arriana
PERIPLUS PONTI EUXINI; ED. BY AIDAN LIDDLE
Arriani Anabasis et Indica
Arrians Unterredungen Epiktets
Arrian
Alexander the Great
The Anabasis of Alexander; or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great
Arrian
Tactical Handbook and the Expedition Against the Alans/Texnh Taktika
Arriani [ton met' Alexandron] libri septimi fragmenta e codice Vaticano rescripto edita
History of Alexander and Indica
Arrian on Coursing
Arrianou Peri anabaseōs
Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, Collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, ... Containing an Account of the First Navigation Attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean
Arriani Nicomedensis expeditionis Alexandri libri septem
De expeditione Alexandri libri septem
Flavii Arriani Anabasis Alexandri
Histoire d'Alexandre. L'Anabase d'Alexandre le Grand et L'Inde suivi de "Flavius Arrien entre deux mondes" par Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Gli eventi dopo Alessandro
Il cinegetico
Arriani Anabasis
Arriani Historici et philosophi Ponti Euxini et Maris Erythraei periplus, ad Adrianum caesarem
Arriana Flaviusa z Nikomedii Żegluga dookoła Pontu Euksyńskiego (Morza Czarnego)
Arriano di Nicomedia chiamato nvovo Xenofonte Dei fatti del magno Alessandro re di Macedonia
Arrian's von Nicomedien Werke...
Dissertationum Ab Arriano Digestarum Libri IV, Ejusdem Enchiridion
Arrian's History of Alexander's expedition
Les faicts & co[n]questes d'Alexandre le Grand Roy des Macedoniens
Arriani Nicomediensis Scripta Minora Rudolfus Hercher iterum recognovit
Alexanderzug
Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditio Alexandri
Periplo del Ponto Eusino
Anabasis et indica ex optimo codice Parisino emendavit et varietatem ejus libri retulit F. Dübner
Anabasis Alexandri- Indica
Anabasis of Alexander
Arriani Nicomediensis De expeditione Alexandri libri septem
Entretiens d'épictète Recueillis Par Arrien
Geographi Graeci minores: Hudsonianae editionis adnotationes integras cum ...
Histoire des expéditions d'Alexandre
Flavii Arriani quae exstant omnia
Arrian's Anabasis
Arrian's History of the Expedition of Alexander the Great, and Conquest of Persia
Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditio Alexandri
Arrian
L'Inde
Arrien L'inde
L'indiké di Arriano
Epicteti Dissertationum Ab Arriano Digestarum Libri Iv
Arrianou Nikomedeos Anabaseos Alexandrou Biblia epta kai Indike
The Enchiridion, or Manual of Epictetus
The Anabasis of Alexander; Or, the History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great
Arrianou Alexandrou Anabasis
L'arte tattica
Anabasis of Alexander
Arrian / with an English translation by E. Iliff Robson (The Loeb classical library)
Arrians Anabasis
The life of Alexander the Great
Arriani et Hannonis periplus
Arrian
Anabasis
Flavii Arriani quae exstant omnia
Le Voyage d'Alexandre le Grand en Inde (French Edition)
[Arrianou Indikē]
Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander and Indica
Arriani historici et philosophi Ponti Euxini et maris Erythraei periplus ...
Arriani De expeditione Alexandri, libri septem
Arrian's History of the Expedition of Alexander the Great
Arriani De expeditione Alexandri, libri septem
Anabase d'Alexandre
Arrianou Technē taktikē, Ektasis kat Alanōu, Perhiplous pontou Euxeinou, Perhiplous tēs Erythras thalasses, Kynēgetikos, Epiktetou Encheirodion, tou autou apothegmata kai apospasmatia, a eu tō Iōannou Stobaiou anthologiō kai eu tais Agelliou agrupniais attikais sozomena. Arriani Ars tactica
Arrianni Anabasis
Schieramento contro gli Alani
Werke
Arrian's Anabasis; Volume 2
L'Inde
Arrianou Peri anabaseōs Alexandrou historiōn biblia [7]. Tou autou Indica
Arrian's History of Alexander's Expedition; Volume 2
Arrian's Anabasis; Volume 1
Der Periplus des Erythräischen meeres von einem unbekannten
Commerce and Navigation of the Erythræan Sea
De venatione
Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem
Pokhod Aleksandra
Arriani Nicomedensis expeditionis Alexandri libri septem
Voyage of Nearchus, and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea
Voyage of Nearchus, and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea
Arrians Anabasis
L'Inde