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Why You Say It

By: Garrison,Webb Garrison

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The Fascinating stories behind over 600 everyday words and phrases such as... Shindig - A veteran square dance caller will tell you that bruised shins result from the swigging feet of beginning dancers. A dance that leaves telltale marks on the lower legs of participants is a "shindig," Alibi - The word is taken straight from Latin and means "elsewhere." The perfect "alibi" is to prove one was "elsewhere" when the deed was done. And many more...

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M J F Books

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1567313051

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9781567313055

The Amazing Civil War

By: Webb Garrison

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The Amazing Civil War

By: Webb Garrison

An illustrated compendium of obscure facts and little-known wonders from the Civil War Era, a perfect gift for history buffs and Civil war enthusiasts. With three million soldiers scattered along a 10,000-mile front and more than 1,000 engagements, the Civil War was one in which fascinating anecdotes, colorful stories, humorous tales, and unusual coincidences were frequent. Historian Webb Garrison has gathered together these hidden gems in this fully illustrated and indexed book. The Amazing Civil War is an intriguing untold history of the war between the states by the author of the bestselling Civil War Curiosities.

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418530697

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9781418530693

Webb Garrison's Civil War Dictionary

An Illustrated Guide to the Everyday Language of Soldiers and Civilians

By: Webb B. Garrison, Sr.

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Webb Garrison's Civil War Dictionary

An Illustrated Guide to the Everyday Language of Soldiers and Civilians

By: Webb B. Garrison, Sr.

This volume explores standard, slang, and substitute words and phrases in the vocabulary of both Billy Yank and Johnny Reb and their civilian contemporaries. It deals with syntax, battle sectors, and weapons and their components. Prisons, nicknames, generals, officeholders, named guns, horses, ships, and a few famous mascots are also treated"--Page 7

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Cumberland House Publishing

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1581826753

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9781581826753

Why You Say it

By: Webb B. Garrison

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Why You Say it

By: Webb B. Garrison

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1558531475

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Creative Minds in Desperate Times

The Civil War's Most Sensational Schemes and Plots

By: Webb Garrison

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Creative Minds in Desperate Times

The Civil War's Most Sensational Schemes and Plots

By: Webb Garrison

When the Civil War broke out, leaders on both sides had to develop strategies for fighting the conflict and considered almost any suggestion. This book chronicles some of the most intriguing and unusual plans devised by these leaders.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418530670

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9781418530679

A Treasury of Civil War Tales

By: Webb Garrison

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A Treasury of Civil War Tales

By: Webb Garrison

Webb Garrison presents the Civil War in a collection of stories that capture what the war was like for the people who lived through it. Arranged chronologically, the stories begin with the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and events leading up to the war. They trace the action through five years and conclude with Reconstruction and the presidential election of 1876. Included are stories of the slave Dred Scott, Red Cross founder Clara Barton, suspected spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow, assistant army surgeon Mary Walker, and President Andrew Johnson.

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0783885695

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9780783885698

A Treasury of White House Tales

By: Webb Garrison

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A Treasury of White House Tales

By: Webb Garrison

From George Washington to George W. Bush, Americans have been fascinated with the men who held the most powerful office in the world. In A Treasury of White House Tales, fifty-one stories about our presidents and their families are told, illustrated with more than 100 photographs. Originally released in 1989, this book by popular writer Webb Garrison has been updated by his granddaughter to include stories about Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In this book the reader will discover... What the world's most powerful men have thought of their job How presidents and their wives first met What president was head of his prep school cheerleading squad and later managed a professional baseball team How a beloved president successfully resisted efforts to make him king during the early years of the American Republic What presidential wife who opposed women's suffrage took over the office of president for several weeks when her husband was incapacitated due to a stroke What president spent his entire fortune on service to the nation and died penniless when Congress refused to repay his expenses

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Thomas Nelson

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1418530662

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9781418530662

A Treasury of Christmas Stories

By: Webb B. Garrison

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A Treasury of Christmas Stories

By: Webb B. Garrison

A collection of Christmas lore filled with little-known stories of Christmas and of how some of our favorite Christmas traditions began

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Galahad Books

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0883658690

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9780883658697

A Treasury of Carolina Tales

Unusual, Interesting, and Little-Known Stories of North Carolina and South Carolina

By: Webb Garrison

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A Treasury of Carolina Tales

Unusual, Interesting, and Little-Known Stories of North Carolina and South Carolina

By: Webb Garrison

Unusual, interesting, and little-known stories of North Carolina and Sout Carolina.

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Thomas Nelson

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1558534490

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9781558534490

A Treasury of Christmas Stories

By: Webb Garrison

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A Treasury of Christmas Stories

By: Webb Garrison

This beautiful book is a treasury of fascinating stories about Christmas and the origins of favorite Christmas traditions. Beautifully designed and illustrated, A Treasury of Christmas Stories will be a keepsake for years to come. Includes a thirteen-song CD.

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Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press

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1558530878

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9781558530874

Southern Tales

By: Webb Garrison

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Southern Tales

By: Webb Garrison

Fascinating and lively stories about people from nine Southern states who have shaped history."--Jacket

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Galahad Books

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0883659638

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9780883659632

The Legacy of Atlanta

A Short History

By: Webb B. Garrison

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The Legacy of Atlanta

A Short History

By: Webb B. Garrison

Examines the individuals, institutions, and events that have shaped Atlanta's history and shares little-known anecdotes about the city's development

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Peachtree Junior

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0934601143

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9780934601146

A Treasury of Florida Tales

By: Webb Garrison

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A Treasury of Florida Tales

By: Webb Garrison

Each of these collections of unusual, interesting, and little-known tales provides insight into the people and history of these states. Counter displays of all books are available. All are illustrated and indexed.

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Thomas Nelson

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155853038X

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9781558530386

Civil War Schemes and Plots

By: Webb Garrison

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Civil War Schemes and Plots

By: Webb Garrison

During the Civil War, leaders on both sides were open to almost any daring strategy that might bring victory. This book details some of the most intriguing, mysterious, bizarre, and ingenious of those plans.

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Gramercy

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0517162873

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9780517162873

1676

The End of American Independence

By: Stephen Saunder Webb

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1676

The End of American Independence

By: Stephen Saunder Webb

The colonial experience of Americans was not one long march toward independence. Sixteen hundred seventy-six was a cataclysmic year of Indian insurrection and civil war in America, when the colonies lost their "autonomy" after King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion. Stephen Webb makes clear how the forces unleashed in 1676 revolutionized the relationships between the adolescent colonies, the imperial government in London, and the embattled Algonquin and Iroquois Indians, and shows how the political institutions that evolved in the colonies in the next three hundred years reflected this experience.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815603614

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9780815603610

The Governors-General

The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681

By: Stephen Saunders Webb

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The Governors-General

The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681

By: Stephen Saunders Webb

In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people. He describes the entire military connection that found expression in the garrisoned cities of England, Scotland, and Ireland and ultimately in the palisaded plantations of Jamaica, Virginia, and New England. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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UNC Press Books

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1469600013

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9781469600017

Sobibor Death Camp

History, Biographies, Remembrance

By: Chris Webb

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Sobibor Death Camp

History, Biographies, Remembrance

By: Chris Webb

The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt—with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942, the Nazis planned a second extermination camp at Sobibor, and the third and deadliest camp was built near the remote village of Treblinka. Sobibor was similarly designed as the first camp in Belzec, it was regarded as an 'overflow' camp for Belzec. This account of the Nazis' remorseless and relentless production line of killing at the Sobibor death camp tells of one of the worst crimes in the history of mankind. Chris Webb's painstakingly researched volume ranges from the survivors and the victims to the SS men who carried out the atrocities. What makes this work special is the research which has been gathered on the survivors, who by good fortune, courage, and determination survived Sobibor and built new lives for themselves, new families, but bore the scars of this terrible place for all of their lives. Webb focuses on the victims and presents details of their lives which have been found and re-tells them to keep their memory alive, to show they are not forgotten. The cruel and barbaric murder process is described in great detail, as well as the confiscation of the valuables and possessions of the unfortunate Jews who crossed the threshold of this man-made hell. One cannot fail to be moved by the personal accounts of those who survived, their loved ones perished in this factory of death. The book covers the construction of the death camp, the physical layout of the camp, as remembered by both the Jewish inmates and the SS staff who served there, and the personal recollections that detail the day to day experiences of the prisoners and the SS. The courageous revolt by the prisoners on October 14, 1943 is re-told by the prisoners and the German SS, with detailed accounts of the revolt and its aftermath. The post-war fate of the perpetrators, or more precisely those that were brought to trial, and information regarding the more recent history of the site itself concludes this book. There is a large photographic section of rare and some unpublished photographs and documents from the author's private archive.

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Columbia University Press

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3838269667

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9783838269665

History of Pennsylvania Hall

By: Samuel Webb

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History of Pennsylvania Hall

By: Samuel Webb

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385572142

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9783385572140

Lord Churchill's Coup

The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered

By: Stephen S. Webb

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Lord Churchill's Coup

The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered

By: Stephen S. Webb

In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated by crusading religion, Webb now argues that both England and its American social experiments were the underdeveloped elements of an empire emerging on both sides of the Atlantic and that the pivotal moment of that empire, the so-called “Glorious Revolution,” was in fact a military coup driven by religious fears. In a vigorous narrative, Webb populates this formative period of the Anglo-American past with colorful and commanding characters. At the center is John Churchill. We see him rise from page boy to earl of Marlborough, winning battlefield glory, influence, and promotion; and his corresponding rise from ensign of the English army taking control of the destiny of the later Stuart monarchs of Britain and America. Webb shows us Churchill increasingly alarmed by the Catholicizing course of his patron, James II, and becoming instrumental in the organization of a successful coup to protect Anglicanism and the constitution. We see the resulting alliance with William of Orange, the Protestant champion of Europe, quickly turn sour as William makes himself king; and we see Churchill, now transformed into imperial politician, once again in power—able to secure the succession of Queen Anne and negotiate the terms of resumption of war against France. Throughout, Webb makes it clear that at the heart of Churchill’s ascent and actions is his vision of America as a decisive factor in the world war between England and France for impersonal supremacy. As the book ends, Churchill’s American agenda thus becomes central to the war aims of the Grand Alliance.

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Knopf

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0307824497

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9780307824493

Marlborough's America

By: Stephen Saunders Webb

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Marlborough's America

By: Stephen Saunders Webb

Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of “salutary neglect,” but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous leadership of career army officers, trained and nominated to American government by the captain general of the allied armies, the first duke of Marlborough, and that his influence, and that of his legates, prevailed through the entire century in America. Webb’s work follows the duke, whom an eloquent enemy described as “the greatest statesman and the greatest general that this country or any other country has produced,” his staff and soldiers, through the ten campaigns, which, by defanging France, made the union with Scotland possible and made “Great Britain” preeminent in the Atlantic world. Then Webb demonstrates that the duke’s legates transformed American colonies into provinces of empire. Marlborough’s America, fifty years in the making, is the fourth volume of The Governors-General.

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Yale University Press

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030017859X

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9780300178593

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