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A Modern Czech Grammar

By: William Edward Harkins,Marie Hnyková

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A Modern Czech Grammar

By: William Edward Harkins,Marie Hnyková

With the present textbook the author has attempted to fill a long-felt need for a simple grammar of the Czech language on the college level, with a balanced presentation in the form of readings, vocabularies, grammatical explanations, and exercises.

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354

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Columbia University Press

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0231099371

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9780231099370

Historical Dictionary of Colonial America

By: William Pencak

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Historical Dictionary of Colonial America

By: William Pencak

The years between 1450 and 1550 marked the end of one era in world history and the beginning of another. Most importantly, the focus of global commerce and power shifted from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, largely because of the discovery ofthe New World. The New World was more than a geographic novelty. It opened the way for new human possibilities, possibilities that were first fulfilled by the British colonies of North America, nearly 100 years after Columbus landed in the Bahamas. TheHistorical Dictionary of Colonial America covers America's history from the first settlements to the end and immediate aftermath of the French and Indian War. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the various colonies, which were founded and how they became those which declared independence. Religious, political, economic, and family life; important people; warfare; and relations between British, French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies are also among the topics covered. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Colonial America.

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493

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Scarecrow Press

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0810855879

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9780810855878

Dictionary of Russian Literature

By: William E. Harkins

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Dictionary of Russian Literature

By: William E. Harkins

This book, first published in 1957, provides essential information on the entire field of Russian literature, as well as a great deal on literary criticism, journalism, philosophy, theatre and related subjects. Russian literary tradition has tended to blur the distinctions between social and political criticism on one hand, and literary criticism on the other, and even, to an extent, the distinction between philosophy and literature. Although intended primarily as a reference work, this book also contains much critical analysis.

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564

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Routledge

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1000386384

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9781000386387

Every Day a Nightmare

American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942

By: William H. Bartsch

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American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942

By: William H. Bartsch

In December 1941, the War Department sent two transports and a freighter carrying 103 P-40 fighters and their pilots to the Philipines to bolster Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Far East Air Force. They were then diverted to Australia, with new orders to ferry the P-40s to the Philippines from Australia through the Dutch East Indies. But on the same day as the second transport reached its destination on January 12, 1942, the first of the key refueling stops in the East Indies fell to rapidly advancing Japanese forces, resulting in a break in their ferry route and another change in their orders. This time the pilots would fly their aircraft to Java to participate in the desperate Allied defense of that ultimate Japanese objective. Except for the pilots from the Philippines, almost all of the other pilots eventually assigned to the five provisional pursuit squadrons ordered to Java were recent graduates of flying school with just a few hours on the P-40. Only forty-three of them made it to their assigned destination; the rest suffered accidents in Australia, were shot down over Bali and Darwin, or were lost in the sinking of the USS Langley as it carried thirty-two of them to Java. Even those who did reach the secret field on Java wondered if they had been sacrificed for no purpose. As the Japanese air assault intensified daily, the Allied defense collapsed. Only eleven Japanese aircraft fell to the P-40s. Author William H. Bartsch has pored through personal diaries and memoirs of the participants, cross-checking these primary sources against Japanese aerial combat records of the period and supplementing them with official records and other American, Dutch, and Australian accounts. Bartsch’s thorough and meticulous research yields a narrative that situates the Java pursuit pilots’ experiences within the context of the overall strategic situation in the early days of the Pacific theater.

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Texas A&M University Press

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160344176X

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9781603441766

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

By: Jean Albert Bédé,William Benbow Edgerton

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Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

By: Jean Albert Bédé,William Benbow Edgerton

With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.

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0231037171

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9780231037174

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A Modern Czech Grammar

A Modern Czech Grammar

Historical Dictionary of Colonial America

Historical Dictionary of Colonial America

Dictionary of Russian Literature

Dictionary of Russian Literature

Every Day a Nightmare

Every Day a Nightmare

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

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