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  • The '27 Yankees

    by Fred Glueckstein ...
    Their names conjure up the golden era of New York Yankees history and the sport of baseball itself; names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Earle Combs, Waite Hoyt, and Herb Pennock. Other baseball immortals playing against these Yankee greats in the roaring twenties were future Hall-of-Famers Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Lefty Grove, Eddie Collins, Jimmy Foxx, Tris Speaker, Mickey Cochrane, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sir Winston Churchill: Published Articles by a Churchillian

    by Fred Glueckstein ...
    From the Preface by David Freeman, editor of the Finest Hour, the journal of The International Churchill Society. “Fred Glueckstein knows Winston Churchill. As can be seen in the essays that follow, Fred’s Churchillian interests are both catholic and eclectic. Fred can tell us in detail about members of the Churchill family, such as the seventh Duke of Marlborough; Churchill’s mentors, such as J.E ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Of Men, Women and Horses

    by Fred Glueckstein ...
    Of Men, Women and Horses is a collection of stories about one of historys most enduring relationships; those of men, women and, the most noble of animals, horses. The collection includes the touching and inspiring true stories of Rosa Bonheur and The Horse Fair (1853); Capt. Myles Keogh and Comanche (1876); Anna Sewell and Black Beauty (1877); Richard Stone Reeves and War Admiral (1937); ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Churchill and Colonist Ii

    The Story of Winston Churchill and His Famous Race Horse

    by Fred Glueckstein ...
    Winston Churchill didnt just have a knack for statesmanship: He also had quite an eye for horses.The British politician was seventy-five when he bought his first racehorse, Colonist II, who proved to be one of the most popular and remarkable horses of his era winning thirteen of twenty-four races and placing in five others.After Churchills defeat as prime minister, these were much needed victories ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mimi of Nový Bohumín, Czechoslovakia

    A Young Woman’S Survival of the Holocaust

    by Fred Glueckstein ...
    Mimi Rubin had fond memories of growing up in Nov Bohumn, Czechoslovakia, a place that ten thousand people called home. It was a tranquil town until September 1, 1939, when the German army invaded the city. From that day forward, eighteen-year-old Mimi would face some of the harshest moments of her life.This memoir follows Mimis storyfrom her idyllic life in Nov Bohumn before the invasion, to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to ... Read more

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  • The Perfect Yankee

    The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History

    by Don Larsen, Mark Shaw ...
    It was one perfect moment, one singular feat unparalleled in the half a century of baseball that followed. It was Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. In an age when nobody spat in anyone’s face, strikes were called only on the field, and New York was baseball’s battlefield, Don Larsen pitched the only no-hitter ever recorded in the World Series. Joe DiMaggio called it the best-pitched game he ever ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Last Lion: Volume 1

    Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932

    by William Manchester ...
    The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill's life--the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century.In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Winston Churchill

    Portrait of an Unique Mind

    by Andrew Norman ...
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War Two. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, ... Read more

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  • The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill

    by Jon Allen ...
    In this book you will find the best of that wit - ripe plums of humour taken from Churchill's parliamentary replies and ripostes, prepared addresses, asides and off-the-cuff remarks - all revealing a trenchant sharpness of mind, fine appreciation of humour and devastating sense of fun. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Private Lives of Winston Churchill

    by John Pearson ...
    The first major biography of Winston Churchill to focus on his inner life and psychology'An extraordinary biography...Pearson...has a sensitive pen, matching the wit of his subject, and shows perceptive intuition towards the delicate relationships between the members of the Churchill family and their assorted spouses and lovers.' International Journal on World PeaceHe was a lion of a man who ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Young Titan

    The Making of Winston Churchill

    by Michael Shelden ...
    In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill’s early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that both nearly undid him but also forged the character ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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