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Describes the exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s, which is also the story behind the novel…
"The English Patient" (DC11460). In 1939 the group known as the Zerzura Club split allegiances: Englishman Ralph Bagnold formed the Long Range Desert Group of patrols that gathered intelligence and generally bedeviled Italian and German troops, while Hungarian Count Ladislaus Almasy led the German equivalent of the LRDG. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.The lost Ark of the Covenant: solving the 2,500 year old mystery of the fabled biblical ark
Par Tudor Parfitt. 2008
Historian-adventurer, author of "Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel", recounts his quest for…
the ancient sacred chest that once held the Ten Commandments. Parfitt begins among a remote African people who claim such a box lies in a mountain cave. 2008.The knock at the door: a journey through the darkness of the Armenian genocide
Par Margaret Ajemian Ahnert. 2007
Amid the chaos and violence of World War I, attacks began against the supposedly disloyal minority Armenian population within the…
Ottoman Empire. By the end of the war, high-end estimates place the death toll of Armenians at more than one million due to executions and deportations. Ahnert interviewed her 98-year-old mother, Ester, a survivor of the massacres, and intertwined her mother's recollections of the period with her own memories. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.The Jesus family tomb: the discovery, the investigation, and the evidence that could change history
Par Simcha Jacobovici, Charles R Pellegrino. 2007
Jerusalem, 1980. Following the accidental bulldozing of a tomb, archaeologists arrived to find ten ossuaries - limestone boxes that served…
as first-century coffins. Six had inscriptions, including Jesus, son of Joseph; two Marys; and Judah, son of Jesus, which the team concluded were merely coincidence. Twenty-five years later, journalist Jacobovici tracked down the ossuaries and the tomb, and soon found that the archaeologists were unaware of key evidence that made this the discovery of a lifetime. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2007.The implosion conspiracy
Par Louis Nizer. 1973
The Polar Bear Expedition: the heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
Par James Carl Nelson. 2019
In August 1918, the 339th regiment of the US Army-roughly 5,000 soldiers, most hailing from Michigan-sailed for Europe to fight…
in World War I. But instead of the Western Front, these troops were headed to Archangel, Russia, a vital port city 1,000 miles northeast of Moscow. There, in the frozen subarctic, amid the chaos of the Russian Civil War, one of the most extraordinary episodes of American history unfolded. 2019.Lamia, l'anti-barbouze
Par Philippe-L. Thyraud De Vosjoli. 1972
Le 18 octobre '63, Lamia, agent secret, envoie sa démission au General de Gaulle. Convaincu de l'infiltration soviétique au sein…
du cabinet français, désavoue par son propre gouvernement, il n'a pas d'autre choix que d'agir en solitaire. 1972.Coronel and the Falklands (British Battle series)
Par Geoffrey Bennett. 1962
Carve her name with pride
Par R. J. Rubeigh James Minney. 1956
Violette Bushell was the daughter of an English father and a French mother. An ordinary London shop assistant before the…
Second World War, she undertook the exacting training for a war-time secret agent. Married in 1940 to Etienne Szabo, she was twice sent to Occupied France: the second time she did not return. A fellow agent tells the story of her Resistance work, her capture by the Gestapo and the award of her George Cross to her daughter, Tania. 1956.Hidden treasure (Time detectives)
Par Geoffrey Trease. 1989
Trease demonstrates how archaeologists and historians piece together evidence of past civilizations to give us a picture of how people…
once lived. He discusses archaeological digs in such places as Troy, Sutton Hoo, and the tomb of Tutankhamen. 1989.Gallant Canadians: the story of the Tenth Canadian Infantry Battalion, 1914-1919
Par Daniel G Dancocks. 1990
This history of the "Fighting Tenth" follows the battalion from its formation in September 1914 through to the end of…
the First World War. The Tenth fought with distinction in every major Canadian battle of the war, and was one of the most decorated battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. 1990.Manhunt
Par Peter Maas. 1986
True story of Edwin Wilson, a CIA agent run amok, who used his knowledge of espionage to gain a fortune.…
Responsible for suppyling the Libyan terrorist machine with weapons, he became the focus of a federal investigation. Strong language. Bestseller. 1986.Digs and diggers: a book of world archaeology
Par Leonard Cottrell. 1964
An introduction to the history of archaeology and the great archaeologists. The author discusses not only the well-known excavations in…
Egypt and the Near East, but also those in Russia, China, and the Western Hemisphere. 1964.Beyond the tumult
Par Barry Winchester. 1971
The true story of the greatest escape in the annals of wartime adventure. Three British airmen led the first escape…
from the German prison camp, Holzminden, during World War I. Faced with great handicaps, threatened with suffocation and exhaustion, they freed 26 prisoners. 1971.Two eggs on my plate
Par Oluf Reed Olsen, F. H Lyon. 1952
The lost tomb
Par Kent R Weeks. 1998
The personal account of an American Egyptologist's discovery and excavation of the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings.…
Weeks describes his 1995 entry into a multi- chambered burial site that some consider the most important archaeological find of the twentieth century. He discusses the new revelations about the sons of Ramesses II, stressing that there is more to be explored. c1998.In June 1986, Edward Lee Howard became the first CIA officer to defect to the Soviet Union. Howard became angry…
after being fired from his job with the CIA and decided to defect to Moscow, thus destroying the CIA's Moscow network. c1989.The walls of windy Troy: a biography of Heinrich Schliemann
Par Marjorie Braymer. 1960
A biography of a poor boy who made money and educated himself to realize his dream of proving that Homer's…
Troy and Mycenae had once really existed. For junior and senior high readers. 1960.The general was a spy: the truth about General Gehlen and his spy ring
Par Hermann Zolling, Heinz Höhne. 1972
The champagne spy: Israel's master spy tells his story
Par Wolfgang Lotz. 1972
As the top Israeli agent in Egypt, the author lived the life of a German horsebreeder who mingled in high…
society until he was caught. Imprisoned in Cairo for three years, he was saved by the Six Day War of 1967. 1972.