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A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way - ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously." - Tom Brokaw The Ghost Army of World War II is the first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives - now updated with new material. In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs - incl...

Search the annals of military history and you will discover no end of quirky characters and surprising true stories: The topless dancer who saved the Byzantine Empire. The World War I battle that was halted so a soccer game could be played. The scientist who invented a pigeon-guided missile in 1943. And don't forget the elderly pig whose death triggered an international crisis between the United States and Great Britain.This is the kind of his...

The author of the highly successful History Channel series "The Greatest Stories Never Told" returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing science stories of discovery and invention.

Historical storyteller Beyer is back with another collection of fascinating, little-known stories from history--100 tales about presidents and the White House to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy. 100 photos.

The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson that morning led to a confrontation that has burned bright in the American mind for more than two hundred years.When the most notorious duel in American history took place, Alexander Hamilton was 49, a former Treasury Secretary whose meteoric political rise had flamed out in the wake of a humiliating sex scandal. Vice President Aaron B...

Inspired by the popular History Channel( Timelab 2000 series, this book features the most startling stories ever plucked from the pages of history. 200+ photos & illustrations.

A cultural history detailing the story of The Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit, which used inflatable tanks and other illusions to mislead the Germans on the battlefields of Europe.

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The author of the highly successful History Channel series "The Greatest Stories Never Told" returns with remarkable tales from music history that will amaze music fans from start to finish.