[PDF] Preston An Illustrated History eBook

Author : Otto Preston Chaney
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806145056

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Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. Yet for many years Zhukov was relegated to the status of "unperson" in his homeland. Now, following glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union, Zhukov is being restored to his rightful place in history. In this completely updated version of his classic 1971 biography of Zhukov, Otto Preston Chaney provides the definitive account of the man and his achievements. Zhukov’s career spanned most of the Soviet period, reflecting the turmoil of the civil war, the hardships endured by the Russian people in World War II, the brief postwar optimism evidenced by the friendship between Zhukov and Eisenhower, repression in Poland and Hungary, and the rise and fall of such political figures as Stalin, Beria, and Krushchev. The story of Russia’s greatest soldier thus offers many insights into the history of the Soviet Union itself.

Author : Jack Walker Drake
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467149381

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Author : Antony Preston
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Adult video
ISBN : 9781571451729

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Submarine Warfare is an authoritative history of these crafts, from their humble, leaky beginnings to their high-tech modern successors. With remarkable photographs and fascinating technical illustrations and cross sections, the crafts, crews, weapons, missions, and men behind these intriguing vessels are explored and celebrated in riveting detail.

Author : Steve Birdsall
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : B-24 (Bomber)
ISBN : 9780385038706

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Beretter om det amerikanske bombefly B-24 Liberator og indsatsen under 2. verdenskrig

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1982112190

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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author’s adventurous journey on horseback through the Southwest in the heart of Navajo desert country. In 1992 author Douglas Preston and his wife and daughter rode horseback across 400 miles of desert in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were retracing the route of a Navajo deity, the Slayer of Alien Gods, on his quest to restore beauty and balance to the Earth. More than a travelogue, Preston’s account of their “one tough journey, luminously remembered” (Kirkus Reviews) is a tale of two cultures meeting in a sacred land and is “like traveling across unknown territory with Lewis and Clark to the Pacific” (Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee).

Author : Edna Mitchell Preston
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780670050703

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A verse tale of how Pop Corn and Ma Goodness met, married, built a house, and had a family.

Author : Simon Barnes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1471194728

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An exquisite edition of The History of the World in 100 Animals by author and journalist Simon Barnes, adapted and abridged for younger readers, with superb illustrations by award-winning artist, Frann Preston-Gannon, illustrator of I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree. This outstanding gift book proposes the 100 animals who have had the greatest impact on humans and the way we view the world around us. From the bees who pollinate our food to the chimpanzees who share over 98% of our DNA, this book explores the unique and thought-provoking relationship between humans and animals throughout history. This fact-filled guide is sure to inspire and delight animal lovers young and old, and will make the perfect gift this Christmas.

Author : David L. Preston
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0803225490

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The Texture of Contact is a landmark study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. David L. Preston details the ways in which European and Iroquois settlers on the frontiers creatively adapted to each other’s presence, weaving webs of mutually beneficial social, economic, and religious relationships that sustained the peace for most of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined archival research, Preston describes everyday encounters between Europeans and Indians along the frontiers of the Iroquois Confederacy in the St. Lawrence, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Ohio valleys. Homesteads, taverns, gristmills, churches, and markets were frequent sites of intercultural exchange and negotiation. Complex diplomatic and trading relationships developed as a result of European and Iroquois settlers bartering material goods. Innovative land-sharing arrangements included the common practice of Euroamerican farmers living as tenants of the Mohawks, sometimes for decades. This study reveals that the everyday lives of Indians and Europeans were far more complex and harmonious than past histories have suggested. Preston’s nuanced comparisons between various settlements also reveal the reasons why peace endured in the Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys while warfare erupted in the Susquehanna and Ohio valleys. One of the most comprehensive studies of eighteenth-century Iroquois history, The Texture of Contact broadens our understanding of eastern North America’s frontiers and the key role that the Iroquois played in shaping that world.