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|  | Last Man Out by James E. Parker
Description not available.A man who saw much of the American war in Vietnam vividly recalls the confusion, violence, and terror of combat. Reprint. AUTHOR: James E. Parker
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Ermengard of Narbonne & the World of the Troubadours by Fredric L. Cheyette
Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its environs were ruled by a remarkable woman, Ermengard, who negotiated her city's way through a maze of everchanging dynastic alliances. Fredric L. Cheyette's masterful and beautifully illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treaties, settling disputes among the lords of her lands, and camping with her armies before the walls of besieged cities. She was born into a world of politics and warfare, but from the Mediterranean to the North Sea her name echoed in songs that treated the arts of love. The land between the Rhone and the Pyrenees was a delicately balanced world in which honor, dispute, and the fragile communities of loyalty and family held a stateless society together. In Cheyette's prose there rises before us a world we had not imagined, in which women were powerful lords, moving back and forth across what we now call Spain, France, and Italy to play the harsh political games essential to the preservation of their realms. But the region was also fertile ground for religious practices deemed heretical by the Church. The attempt to eradicate them would spawn the Albigensian Crusade, which destroyed the cosmopolitan world of Ermengard and the troubadours--the world that lives again in this book. AUTHOR: Fredric L. Cheyette
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Mexico - Su Gente by Bobbie Kalman
Description not available.Looks at Mexican culture, including the Mayan, Aztec, and Spanish influences, and covers arts and crafts, music, dance, literature, folklore, holidays, sports, and food. AUTHOR: Bobbie Kalman
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz, Stephen B. Oates
Originally published in the first half of the 20th century, this classic biography of Crazy Horse, the wise, proud, and heroic leader of the Cheyenne, is told from the Sioux point of view. Sandoz grew up in Nebraska hearing firsthand reports of Crazy Horse, and she interviewed several Sioux who actually knew him. AUTHOR: Mari Sandoz, Stephen B. Oates
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Ireland by Helen Arnold
A collection of fictional postcards, written as if by young people visiting Ireland, describes various sights and life in the Emerald Isle. AUTHOR: Helen Arnold
PUBLISHER: Raintree Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Mexico - Su Gente by Bobbie Kalman
Description not available.Looks at the geography of each region, describes Mexico's natural resources, industries, and agriculture, and surveys Mexican wildlife. AUTHOR: Bobbie Kalman
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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