Plunder and High Adventure on the Garden State Coastline
From the earliest days of the Colonial Era until the end of the Revolution, New Jersey's coastline swarmed with pirates who sailed back and forth across the Atlantic in search of plunder and rich prizes. Full of adventure, and dastardly deeds, this book features such famous characters as Capt. William Kidd and the notoriously cruel Blackbeard.
Pirates and privateers (thieves who had the blessings of their home countries) were major players in Chesapeake Bay history. For nearly 200 years, pirates roamed the Bay's waters looking for prey and outfitting themselves to search for prizes in other parts of the world.
As the Vietnam War raged thousands of miles away, Mike McCarthy completed his flight training in the United States, eager to get into the war and afraid it would end before he could participate. He needn't have worried. By 1967, he was flying his F-4 Phantom II fighter with the U.S.
Cemeteries, abandoned buildings, and roads to nowhere are all that remain of several once-thriving towns in Pennsylvania. This guidebook profiles 46 locations that have been abandoned or left to ruin, and some that have seen life as historic sites, with discussions on their history, daily life, fall, and condition.
The Guide to Battle Sites, Monuments, Museums and Towns
Acts as a companion to the "Pennsylvania Civil War Trails" initiative of the Commonwealth that groups the state into seven different road trips, exploring buildings, battlefields, towns, monuments, and museums that memorialise the conflict. This book also includes visitor information and helpful maps.
Features Last River Caverns, Crystal Cave, Indian Echo Caverns, Woodward Cave, Penn's Cave, Indian Caverns, Lincoln Caverns, Coral Caverns, and Laurel Caverns and includes ice mines, coal mines, boulder fields, and rock cities. Detailed history of each cave. Legends and local lore of many features and sites.
Here is the detailed story of -The first serious attempt to capture Richmond -The struggle that marked the emergence of Robert E. Lee -The rise and fall of the North's great hope, General George B. McClellan In this first book on the subject in 50 years, historian Cullen presents incisive evaluations of the men and movements of the ......
The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45
Made up of soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners, the Red Army's penal units carried out some of the most terrifying assignments on the Eastern Front, such as storming German machine-gun nests.
