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  • The Persistent Past
    John D Beatty
    This story starts and ends with weddings. Yeah, I know, a little odd for a story about wars, but there it is.The first wedding is my oldest daughter’s in 1995, where she tells me her new hubby bought an enormous steamer trunk with some old papers and diaries in it; I should have a look.So, I look, and I find...you see, I’m an economic historian, so what I find in that old trunk...
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  • Steele’s Battalion
    John D Beatty
    Before history sanitized World War I, a soldier wrote it down in his diaries.Inside an old steamer trunk, a scholar uncovered forgotten diaries, revealing the voice of Ned Steele, a young American forever reshaped by the first global war of the modern age.Beginning in Detroit and ending in the ravaged fields of Europe, Steele’s diaries trace his transformation from a civilian v...
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  • The Fire Blitz
    John D Beatty
    February 1945. World War Two is entering its sixth year. In Europe, Germany is on its knees, its shattered cities in ruins, battered by clouds of bombers attacking day and night. In the Pacific, the war has been raging for just over three years-the island battles producing rivers of blood-but only a handful of bombs have fallen on Japan. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the most ...
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  • The Devil’s Own Day
    John D Beatty
    In the spring of 1862, three green armies clashed in the Tennessee pine barrens near an obscure flatboat landing on the Tennessee River. Desperate to stop two Union armies from joining forces-and by so doing, to prove his worth to the Confederacy, Albert S. Johnston, with Pierre G. T. Beauregard, led the 40,000 man Army of Mississippi north from Corinth, Mississippi. It didn’t ...
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  • Crop Duster
    John D Beatty
    In the frozen skies of World War Two Europe, two mighty air forces fought in a deadly ballet of sudden death. The Americans attacked with their bombers again and again, dropping their deadly cargoes on factories, cities, homes. The Germans defended with their fighters day after day, charging the deadly guns of the bombers, defending their factories, cities, homes...A Wisconsin ...
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  • This Redhead
    John D Beatty
    This Redhead consists only of external dialogues between two characters, Blondie and Red. There are no non-verbal narratives nor any internal dialogues. There are no quotation marks for what they say; just those in their dialogs, nor 'he said' nor 'she sighed' nor 'they cried' tags. You will read of no facial expressions that they don’t talk about, no un-noticed reactions or un...
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    20,63 €

  • The Past Not Taken
    John Beatty
    We make history every day.  From one moment to the next, our decisions-small and large-shape our future and, as we travel along that path, shape our past. How do we want it to read? Should we care? Or should we just get on with our lives and hope for the best? The Past Not Taken is three novellas that show that not all 'authorities' are authoritative.Two roads diverge in a yell...
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    15,92 €

  • The Liberty Bell Files
    John Beatty
    The Liberty Bell Files: J Edgar’s Demons is a work of fiction...seriously. Neither the Liberty Bell Project nor 'the Files,' nor The Special Projects Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever existed. Can you imagine the FBI investigating a guy who didn’t want to pay sales tax on a cup of coffee? Or a guy who somebody thought wrote a story disrespectful to the Japane...
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  • The Safe Tree
    John D Beatty
    Four friends...two gun battles...two weddings...a fire...family lost and found...what more could you ask for? How about...what happened to Jimmy Hoffa?Join JJ and Ann, Mike and Leigh in the thrilling conclusion to the story that began with Stella’s Game: A Story of Friendships, and continued with Tideline: Friendship Abides.From the creator of The Stella’s Game Trilogy, The Saf...
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    11,54 €

  • Sergeant’s Business and Other Stories
    John D Beatty
    Short stories of heroism, sacrifice, Christmas, friendship, loss, tragedy, childbirth,...something for everyone.These are about people in peril, in danger of their lives, their livelihoods.They save others; they save themselves.From pre-history to yesterday, these stories take you from the hunting fields of prehistoric man to Shiloh, from the Pacific to Pointe du Hoc, from Kore...
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    7,86 €

  • Tideline
    John D Beatty
    Where Stella’s Game ends, Tideline: Friendship Abides begins.Life has its limitations, natural and artificial.  Natural limits are nature’s doing; the others are ours.Where John Grisham meets Fern Michaels...there’s Tideline...Natural limits are imposed by nature--like the ocean tides. The rest are imposed-often reluctantly, sometimes of necessity-by how we live our lives. We s...
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  • Stella’s Game
    John D Beatty
    Young Romance in the style of Fern Michaels; Adventure in the tradition of JA Vance; Thrills like John Grisham...Stella’s Game has it all!The Cold War; friends moving away; assassinations; deaths in the family; the Race to the Moon; draft and race riots; Vietnam; marches for peace and freedom; overdoses; the Sexual Revolution; graduations; puberty...What could go wrong?Before t...
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    19,99 €

  • Why the Samurai Lost Japan
    John D Beatty / Lee A Rochwerger
    Beginning in the late 19th century, Imperial Japan embarked on a program of aggressive military overseas adventures in Asia and the Pacific. From 1904 to 1941, Japan’s desire for resource independence had driven them to conquer Korea, Manchuria, large parts of China, and French Indochina, and to occupy large swaths of Pacific islands. These conquests provided tremendous resourc...
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  • Catalogue Of A Memorial Exhibition Of The Works Of Augustus Saint-gaudens
    H. Aspet / Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts / John Wesley Beatty
    This catalogue documents a memorial exhibition of the works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, held at the Carnegie Institute from April 29th through June 30th, 1909. Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was a preeminent American sculptor of the late 19th century, known for his monumental public sculptures and portrait reliefs. The exhibition showcased a comprehensive collection of his w...
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    20,16 €

  • The Solid South
    John Beatty
    'The Solid South: Its Political Spirit, Methods, and Purposes' offers a penetrating analysis of the political landscape in the American South following the Civil War. Written by John Beatty and first published in 1880, this work delves into the prevailing sentiments, strategies, and objectives that shaped the region’s political identity during Reconstruction. Beatty’s study pro...
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    15,55 €

  • The Politics of Public Ventures
    John Cabeen Beatty
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    21,29 €

  • The Relation of Art to Nature
    John Wesley Beatty
    In 'The Relation of Art to Nature,' John Wesley Beatty explores the profound connection between artistic expression and the natural world. Beatty, a respected artist and museum director, delves into the ways in which nature serves as both an inspiration and a subject for art. The book examines how artists interpret and represent the beauty and complexity of nature through vario...
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    17,72 €

  • The Citizen-Soldier; Or, Memoirs Of A Volunteer.
    John Beatty
    "22. Arrived in Bellaire at 3P.M. There is trouble in the neighborhood of Grafton..." Thus begins the extraordinary journals of a modest, humble man. John Beatty (1848-1914) left his work and his home to join the Ohio volunteers in 1861. He began as most do, as a lowly private, but rose through the ranks to become a Brigadier General by 1862. Beatty faithfully recorded his dail...
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    19,25 €

  • Uncle Peter Sked (1907)
    John Beatty
    Uncle Peter Sked is a novel written by John Beatty and published in 1907. The story revolves around the life of a man named Peter Sked, who is the uncle of the protagonist, a young boy named Davie. Uncle Peter is an eccentric character who lives alone in a small cottage in the Scottish countryside. He is known for his love of animals and his unusual habits, such as collecting r...
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    31,28 €

  • McLean
    John Beatty
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,14 €

  • Citizen Soldier
    John Beatty
    A classic account of the Civil War from a Union Army Infantry officer In 1861 John Beatty raised a company of Ohio Volunteers to take their part in the great conflict between the states. From this time, as an officer of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer regiment he faithfully kept an almost daily journal of life in a Union Infantry regiment. As the campaign in West Virginia began Beatty r...
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    20,49 €

  • The Belle O’ Becket’s Lane
    John Beatty
    The Belle O’ Becket’s Lane is an American novel written by John Beatty. The book is a compelling story that takes place in the early 1900s in a small town in the United States. The main character, Belle, is a strong-willed and independent woman who is determined to make a better life for herself and her family. She lives in a small house on Becket’s Lane, which is a poor and ru...
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