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|  | Along the Inca Road by Karin Muller
Description not available.A woman's journey along the ancient Inca Road follows the high-altitude spine of an empire across the Andes from Ecuador to Brazil, where she documents the descendents of the Inca with words and images. By the author of Hitchhiking Vietnam. AUTHOR: Karin Muller
PUBLISHER: National Geographic Society
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. Weems
This biography of the colorful historical figure also known as the Swamp Fox was first published in 1824. The account was written by an officer who served with General Francis Marion and who then turned his work over to Parson Weems who embellished it into a romantic biography. AUTHOR: M. L. Weems
PUBLISHER: Blair, John F. Publisher
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Men Stood Like Iron by Lance J. Herdegen
The Men Stood Like Iron is the dramatic story of how the backwoods frontier boys of Indiana and Wisconsin became soldiers of an Iron Brigade , a unit so celebrated that General George McClellan called it equal to the best troops in any army in the world . Created following the Union defeat at Bull Run, the brigade won immediate attention for being the only all-Western brigade of the Eastern armies and for the tall black hats issued to the soldiers. It was a year before the brigade saw any action, but when the fighting began, it was relentless. In four battles over three weeks - Brawner`s Farm, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam - the Iron Brigade earned its name at terrible cost. By Appomattox Court House, the brigade had suffered a proportionally greater number of battle deaths than any other Federal unit. AUTHOR: Lance J. Herdegen
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Hotel Bolivia by Leo Spitzer
A memoir of refugee life in Bolivia, written by an American Jew who spent his childhood there. Spitzer was born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1939, just months after his parents had left Austria, and lived there with his family until they moved to the United States in 1950. Bolivia's liberal immigration policies made it a haven for Jews in the 1930s and--ironically enough--for Nazis in the 1940s. Spitzer's recollections portray a deeply fractured society inhabited by suspicious outsiders looking uncomfortably for safe haven. AUTHOR: Leo Spitzer
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Crucible of War by Fred Anderson
This military history of the French and Indian War (known as the Seven Years' War in Europe) provides a fascinating narrative of the conflict that preceded the American Revolution. Anderson tells how the colonists' encounters with British troops resulted in a clear sense of their own subordinate place in the empire. He also tells how the the war upset the beneficial relations with the Indians, causing a rift which was never to be repaired. AUTHOR: Fred Anderson
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Wars of the Roses by Terence Wise
This book takes a look into the 'Civil War' more commonly known as the Wars of the Roses, and focuses on the uniforms and appearance of the men fighting in this long, bloody war. AUTHOR: Terence Wise
PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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