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ordered by best selling| Henry Ford: An American Icon (Titans of Fortune) | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Alef | ||
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| Brief New Enhanced Digital EditionHenry Ford, an American folk hero to many, was a man with several faces. He was a genius who revolutionized the automobile industry, irrevocably altered American culture and commerce, developed mass production, and helped the middle class emerge in America. He was also an...Read More |
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| Taildragger Tales: My late-blooming romance with a Piper Cub and her younger sisters | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Ford | ||
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| Brief Dan Ford learned to fly at the age when most men are well into retirement. In this short books, he tells how it was to have a flight instructor one-third his age, makes a Sentimental Journey to the Pennsylvania airport where the Piper Cub first saw the light of day, practices spins and aerobatic tur...Read More |
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| Ford Madox Brown | |||
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Author(s) : Denise Ankele, Daniel Ankele | ||
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| Brief Ford Madox BrownBORN: April 16, 1821 in Calais, France.DIED: October 6, 1893 in London, England.MOVEMENT: Pre-RaphaeliteINTERESTING FACTS:Brown studied art in Antwerp under Egide Charles Gustave Wappers. He was also tutored by a young Dante Gabriel Rossetti.In 1861, he joined William Morris’s desi...Read More |
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| The Katyn Findings 1952: The U.S. Congress investigates the murder of Polish officers and intellectuals by Stalin's order in the spring of 1940 | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Ford | ||
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| Brief In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied the republic of Poland, dividing the country between them. Some two hundred thousand Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in Russian camps, which were often converted monasteries. In March 1940, Joseph Stalin approved a plan to ...Read More |
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| A Road Well Traveled: Profiles of America's Great Automobile Pioneers | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Alef | ||
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| Brief [New and Expanded Digital Edition includes new chapter on Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and more than exciting 100 video links]The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. These pioneers lif...Read More |
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| John and Horace Dodge: Automotive Pioneers | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Alef | ||
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| Brief Catherine the Great owned a pearl necklace containing 389 pearls and weighing nearly 10 pounds, almost as heavy as the curse it carried for its owners. It was worth a million dollars when it disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century, only to resurface in the hands of the Dodge family. Then th...Read More |
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| Remembering Bluie West One: The Arctic airfield that helped win the Second World War | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Ford | ||
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| Brief In June 1940, the U.S. Coast Guard set out to survey the coast of Greenland, the largest island in the world--and the coldest. A year and a half before the country entered the Second World War, the United States was looking for a place to put an airfield that would serve as a bridge to Europe. (For ...Read More |
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| A Rebel in the County Cork, 1915-1923: Case Study of an Insurgency (Long Essay, submitted in partial fulfillment of the M.A. degree at King's College London) | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Ford | ||
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| Brief In this short monograph, Daniel Ford combines a survey of the literature with the memories of his father, one of the Irish Republican Army volunteers who battled British forces during and after the First World War. Though the rebellion was settled by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, IRA diehards foug...Read More |
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| First Blood for the Flying Tigers: Twelve days after Pearl Harbor, a band of American mercenaries took their revenge on the Empire of Japan | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Ford | ||
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| Brief When Japanese planes laid waste to Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States had just one air combat unit on the continent of Asia. That was the 1st American Volunteer Group – sponsored by the White House, equipped and paid by a U.S. loan, but officially part of the Chines...Read More |
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| Carrying a Nuke to Sevastopol: One pilot, one engine, and one plutonium bomb | |||
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Author(s) : Daniel Ford | ||
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| Brief When lightweight nuclear bombs became available in the 1950s, the U.S. military set about to adapt them to a whole variety of warplanes designed for other uses. Instead of the lumbering B-36 "Peacemaker" or its equally gigantic successor, the B-52, both designed to carry a bomb weighing many tons, i...Read More |
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