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  • A Road Uncertain
    Herbert E Stover
    HERBERT STOVER’S LAST NOVEL - NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!Joel Pender had completed two years of medical school when bitterness at his parents’ deaths and their sacrifices drove him to West Virginia at the start of the Civil War. After two years as a teacher and doctor there, the threat of being drafted into the Army or captured by guerillas looms large. Joel is considering leaving ...
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    18,45 €

  • The Eagle and the Wind
    Herbert E. Stover
    It was a cruel turn of fate that bonded Jeffrey Claus to the master of the Ribner Trading Post, who knew more than he would say about the disappearance of the one document that could give Jeffrey his liberty. Compelled to recondition weapons destined for the British threatening the rear flank of George Washington’s beleaguered troops, the gunsmith found solace in the embrace of...
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    15,77 €

  • Powder Mission
    Herbert E Stover
    The beleaguered forces of General George Washington were hard pressed by a well-equipped British army outside Philadelphia. Patriot victory depended upon the Spanish gold and powder that Colonel George Gibson’s 'Lambs' were commissioned to transport from New Orleans, north through enemy territory. When the crucial cargo of gold is stolen, Martin Joe Richtier, the personal envoy...
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    15,91 €

  • The Dominant Idea and Other Stories
    Herbert E. Stover
    Herbert Stover was best known for his full-length historical novels full of action and historic figures, always with a twist of romance. However, before he sold his first novel to a New York publishing house after World War II, Stover struggled as an upstart writer of pulp fiction short stories, the vast majority of which were written in the 1920s and early 1930s. Rejection aft...
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    16,12 €

  • By Night the Strangers
    Herbert E Stover
    The Underground Railroad was the only avenue of hope for fugitive slaves who followed the star of freedom north to Canada in the years prior to the Civil War. High rewards offered for the return of human chattel inspired a relentless vigil on the part of unscrupulous deputies, making the operation of the Railroad a perilous venture for the Abolitionists.By Night the Strangers t...
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    15,85 €

  • Men in Buckskin
    Herbert E Stover
    A desperate English king had turned loose the swarms of native warriors to threaten the northern regions of the Susquehanna with death and plunder. General Knox called on Simon Braide to make the vital map that would guide Washington’s forces in defense of this territory-whenever they could be spared to bolster the meager but gallant ranks of the men in buckskin who now patroll...
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    15,83 €

  • Copperhead Moon
    Herbert E Stover
    The Union forces faced disaster on two sides. Confederate troops advanced determinedly from the South while, in the North, an amorphous army of deserters was being organized to strike at the back of the blue-uniformed soldiers with a blow that might prove as deadly as the bite of the small reptile whose name the Copperheads bore.Discharged from the Union Army, Coleman Jons turn...
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    15,79 €

  • Song of the Susquehanna
    Herbert E Stover
    Peter Grove, in search of ginseng in upstate Pennsylvania, becomes embroiled in the events of the French and Indian War. A native of Lancaster, Grove travels throughout the Pennsylvania wilderness, as far as Fort Pitt and the West Branch of the Susquehanna. Along the way, when not seeking a young lady’s hand, he interacts with many of the leading figures of the time, including ...
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    16,01 €