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Backpacking Pennsylvania
37 Great Hikes
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
Detailed descriptions of 37 trails. Information on terrain, difficulty, precautions, contacts. Directions to each trail and descriptions of features along the trek.
Hiking the Allegheny National Forest
Exploring the Wilderness of Northwestern Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania covers 500,000 acres and is nationally known for its many established hiking trails. This guide covers 50 dayhikes and 5 backpacking trails in and around the region, with information on what to pack, time to allow, trailhead locations, and major vistas and points of interest along the way. Maps of each trail are included.
55 Men
The Story of the Constitution, Based on the Day-by-Day Notes of James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1986
Highly readable, insightful revelation of what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the Constitution
First published in 1936
The 55 men who traveled to Philadelphia on horse and by stagecoach in the spring of 1787 as delegates to a Convention on the Articles of Confederation had been...
Land With No Sun
A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
A no-holds-barred, straight-in-your-face account of combat in Vietnam
You know it's going to be hot when your brigade is referred to as a Fireball unit. From May 1967 through May 1968, Ted Arthurs was in the thick of it, humping an eighty-pound rucksack through triple canopy jungle, chasing...
True Crime: Virginia
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Includes the case of the Martinsville Seven, the Virginia Tech shootings and many more.
by John Gookin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
More than 1,000 quotes from close to 600 sources in categories ranging from leadership to diversity and inclusion to environmental ethics to expedition planning.
Haunted Utah
Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Beehive State
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Tales of hauntings, and creature sightings from the state of Utah.
First In, Last Out
An American Paratrooper in Vietnam with the 101st and Vietnamese Airborne
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increased to 184,000 from 23,000 the year before. When he returned for a second tour in 1972, troop strength stood at 24,000 and would dwindle to a mere 50 the...
Beyond the Beachhead
The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign.
by J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day. Sidebars on glider operations, rear-area activities, hedgerow country, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans.
For Europe
The French Volunteers of the Waffen-SS
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Definitive account of French volunteers in the Waffen-SS
Blow-by-blow retelling of battles on the Eastern Front, including the fight for Berlin
Focuses on all French SS units, especially the 33rd SS Grenadier Division "Charlemagne"
Impeccably researched, this book tells...
by Brett Stoneberger USA
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2005
A guide to small unit dismounted combat operations, extensively updated to include both the latest doctrine and lessons learned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Covers the equipment, operations, and individual combat skills essential for soldiers and others who must act as infantry. Essential...
Siegfried Line, The
The German Defense of the West Wall, September-December 1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The battles for the Germans' last line of defense in World War II, including Arnhem, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, and Metz
How German commanders made decisions under fire
Built as a series of forts, bunkers, and tank traps, the West Wall--known as the Siegfried Line to the Allies--stretched...
World War II Reflections
An Oral History of Pennsylvania's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Gripping firsthand accounts. Then-and-now photos of the veterans. Maps and sidebars highlighting battles, units, and equipment.