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Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. The Thanksgiving story most Americans learned begins with a feast.The surviving record begins with kidnapping, stolen corn, armed diplomacy, disease, war-and a country that spent centuries rewriting what came next.In 1614, an English captain abducted Tisquantum-later known as Squanto-and carried him across the Atlantic. Six years later, starving Mayflower colonists dug Native corn from buried storage pits on Cape Cod. In 1621, Plymouth settlers and Wampanoag people gathered for the harvest celebration that generations would transform into an American origin story.But that gathering was only the beginning.In THE FEAST BUILT ON GRAVES, Matthew Nichols investigates ten documented episodes that reveal how Thanksgiving was actually made-not in a single peaceful meal, but through survival, diplomacy, colonial expansion, warfare, religion, commerce, political necessity, and national mythmaking.Follow the evidence through:? Tisquantum's kidnapping and extraordinary return to a devastated Patuxet? the armed searches for corn before Plymouth Colony was established? Ousamequin's calculated alliance with the English newcomers? the heavily armed reality behind the 1621 harvest gathering? the Pequot War and the language of providential victory? Metacom, John Sassamon, and the collapse that became King Philip's War? Revolutionary-era thanksgiving proclamations? George Washington and the constitutional argument over a national thanksgiving? Sarah Josepha Hale, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War creation of the modern holiday? Franklin Roosevelt's controversial "Franksgiving"? and Wamsutta Frank James's 1970 speech that Massachusetts officials would not approveThis is not an argument against gratitude.It is an investigation into the history hidden beneath it.Drawing a sharp line between documented fact, reasonable inference, disputed claims, and national mythology, Nichols reconstructs a Thanksgiving far more complicated-and far more consequential-than the schoolroom pageant.For readers of American history, Native American history, colonial history, historical investigations, and books that challenge familiar national myths, THE FEAST BUILT ON GRAVES asks a simple question:What happens when a country needs the people it conquered to approve the story it tells about itself?That final question comes directly from the central issue your introduction establishes Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 319.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Some cities were built to impress. Others were built to survive.Beneath the familiar streets of the modern world exists another landscape, one carved through stone, excavated beneath neighborhoods, and concealed behind doors most people pass without noticing.These underground spaces were not created merely as curiosities.They were answers to fear.In The City Built for the Bomb, historian and nonfiction author Matthew Nichols investigates the remarkable true history of underground cities, tunnels, shelters, quarries, wartime complexes, and subterranean communities created when political violence, military technology, climate, economics, and human survival collided.Travel beneath Cappadocia, where communities expanded extraordinary underground refuges through volcanic rock. Descend into the old quarries beneath Paris, where centuries of excavation created a second geography below the French capital. Enter the subterranean spaces of Naples, the hidden infrastructure beneath Seattle, and the shelters where Londoners sought protection as German bombs fell during the Second World War.Then the story moves deeper into the twentieth century.In Vietnam, the Cu Chi tunnels became part of a brutal subterranean battlefield. In Australia, residents of Coober Pedy discovered that life underground could offer protection from punishing desert heat. In Helsinki, civil-defense planning helped create an extraordinary underground infrastructure designed to serve a peaceful city while remaining useful in an emergency.And beneath Beijing lies one of the Cold War's most remarkable physical legacies.As relations between China and the Soviet Union deteriorated and nuclear war became a genuine strategic fear, Mao-era China mobilized enormous numbers of people to construct civil-defense tunnels beneath the capital. What began as preparation for catastrophe would eventually acquire another life, with portions of Beijing's underground world used for housing before authorities moved to close unsafe subterranean residences.The bombs never came.The city remained.Nichols separates documented history from the legends that inevitably accumulate around places hidden from public view. The result is not a catalogue of mysterious tunnels, but an investigation into why societies repeatedly choose to build downward when survival above ground can no longer be taken for granted.Behind every tunnel is a pressure that forced someone to dig.War. Heat. Poverty. Politics. Industry. Fear.The City Built for the Bomb reveals the hidden systems beneath some of the world's most famous cities and the people whose lives became entangled with them.For readers fascinated by hidden history, Cold War history, underground cities, military history, forgotten infrastructure, archaeology, urban history, and the strange true stories concealed beneath everyday places, this is history from an entirely different level.The surface tells us what a civilization wanted the world to see.Underground, we discover what it was afraid of. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Dead Man Who Invaded Sicily is a riveting work of military deception and hidden history that reveals how armies win by shaping what the enemy believes. From Operation Mincemeat to the Ghost Army, from Patton's phantom army to Soviet WWII deception, this book follows the true stories of war's second battlefield: the mind of the opponent.A dead man carrying false papers. Inflatable tanks. Imaginary spies. Wooden cannons. A disguised merchant ship built to lure a submarine into firing range. Across the 19th and 20th centuries, commanders, intelligence officers, camouflage experts, and double agents learned that a well-built illusion could redirect armies, delay attacks, and change the course of history.Written in a vivid narrative style, this book explores the real operations behind some of the most famous deception campaigns in military history. Readers will encounter Operation Mincemeat, the Ghost Army, Operation Fortitude, Q-ships, maskirovka, and other true stories war enthusiasts and history readers love. Each chapter shows how deception worked not as a trick, but as a system of evidence, expectation, and action.For readers of World War II history, espionage, battlefield strategy, and obscure wartime operations, this is a fast-moving account of how false signals, controlled rumors, and carefully staged evidence fooled enemy commanders. If you are drawn to wartime intelligence, secret operations, and the hidden mechanics behind famous victories, this book delivers a fresh angle on history you thought you knew. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. On February 1, 1942, the Atlantic went dark.German U-boats had begun using Enigma M4, a strengthened naval cipher machine fitted with a fourth rotor. At Bletchley Park, the principal Atlantic U-boat network, known to Germany as Triton and to British cryptanalysts as Shark, suddenly became unreadable.For ten critical months, the German Navy directed its submarine campaign through a communications system it believed was beyond practical penetration.The Fourth Rotor reconstructs the hidden intelligence struggle behind that confidence. Rather than repeating the familiar story of one brilliant codebreaker defeating one machine, Matthew Nichols examines the larger system that made both German success and eventual Allied penetration possible.The story moves from the Polish mathematical attack on Enigma and the dangerous capture of documents from U-110 to the introduction of M4, the American coastal offensive, Karl Doenitz's radio-controlled wolf packs, German B-Dienst successes against Allied communications, and the fatal recovery of cipher books from the sinking U-559.At the center of the book is a question more consequential than how Enigma was broken: Why did the German naval command continue to trust it?Doenitz and his communications specialists were not careless. They imposed radio discipline, shortened transmissions, developed destruction procedures, strengthened the machine, and investigated suspicious Allied successes. Yet every plausible alternative explanation, radar, direction finding, aircraft reconnaissance, captured charts, agents, and operational coincidence, helped preserve confidence in the cipher.The machine became the alibi.Drawing upon translated German U-boat command war diaries, declassified intelligence studies, naval histories, Bletchley Park records, museum documentation, and established scholarship, The Fourth Rotor separates verified history from popular simplification. It restores the Polish cryptanalysts, naval boarding parties, intercept operators, Hut 8 analysts, bombe operators, intelligence officers, escort crews, and merchant sailors to a story too often reduced to a single name.This is not merely the history of a code being broken. It is the documented account of a command structure that mistook cryptographic complexity for operational invisibility, and of the men at sea who paid for that assumption.For readers interested in Bletchley Park, Enigma, U-boat warfare, intelligence history, naval operations, and the Battle of the Atlantic. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. On the night of April 16, 1961, Brigade 2506 was already at sea when Washington changed one of the assumptions on which the invasion depended.Within hours, surviving Cuban aircraft would attack the invasion fleet. Ships carrying ammunition, fuel, and supplies would be hit. The beachhead at the Bay of Pigs would collapse in less than three days.But the disaster did not begin on the beach.In The Beachhead and the Blind Spot, Matthew Nichols reconstructs the months before the invasion through declassified CIA records, Joint Chiefs evaluations, Kennedy administration documents, operational histories, and official after-action reports. The evidence reveals an operation surrounded by warnings: Castro's rapidly expanding militia, deteriorating secrecy at the Brigade's Guatemalan training base, an inadequate clandestine infiltration network inside Cuba, doubts among paramilitary officers, and a military plan increasingly distorted by the political requirement for plausible deniability.The central failure was not simply that American intelligence knew too little.It was that different parts of the government knew different pieces of the danger-and no mechanism forced those pieces together before the operation crossed the point of no return.From the secret training camps near Retalhuleu and the troubled maritime missions of the Barbara J to the abandoned Trinidad landing plan, the canceled D-Day air strikes, and the fighting at Playa Giron, this investigation follows the machinery behind one of the Cold War's most consequential intelligence failures.This is not a story of simple heroes and villains. It is a documentary reconstruction of how intelligence, bureaucracy, political restraint, covert tradecraft, geography, and institutional momentum transformed uncertainty into action.The beachhead disappeared in less than three days.The habits that created it lasted much longer.That final positioning is directly supported by your conclusion, which argues that the United States was not simply "blind"; significant warnings existed concerning Castro's strengthening forces, the likelihood of losing tactical surprise, the weakness of the internal resistance apparatus, the difficulty of infiltration, and the vulnerability of the invasion fleet to surviving Cuban aircraft. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Christmas in America was not born fully formed. It was argued over, prohibited, reinvented, advertised-and eventually transformed into tradition.In colonial New England, celebrating Christmas could cost you a fine.Two centuries later, department stores were turning the holiday into a spectacle, electric lights were glowing on Christmas trees, advertisers were reshaping Santa Claus, and a Montgomery Ward copywriter was creating a red-nosed reindeer that millions of families would eventually claim as their own.FROM BANNED TO BELOVED traces the surprising history of how Christmas became Christmas in America.Drawing on newspapers, diaries, advertisements, government records, illustrations, archival collections, and contemporary accounts, Matthew Nichols investigates the real events behind some of America's most familiar holiday traditions-and separates the documentary record from the legends that grew around it.Inside, discover: - Why some deeply religious colonists rejected Christmas-and why Massachusetts Bay eventually fined people for observing it.- How New York writers, historians, printers, and families helped transform St. Nicholas into an American icon.- What the original 1823 publication of A Visit from St. Nicholas actually said-and why questions about its authorship never completely disappeared.- How an image of Queen Victoria's family helped popularize the Christmas tree in American homes without actually introducing the custom to America.- How Thomas Nast placed Santa inside the politics and propaganda of the Civil War.- How department stores, greeting-card publishers, electricity, mass printing, and advertising changed the way Americans experienced Christmas.- Why Coca-Cola did not invent the modern Santa Claus-even though its advertisements helped make one version of him extraordinarily familiar.- How Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer began as a Montgomery Ward promotional booklet before escaping the advertising department and becoming something much larger. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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