Download or read book 300 Heroes written by Terri Dougherty and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes events before, during, and after the battle of Thermopylae, including key players, weapons, and battle tactics"--Provided by publisher.

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Download or read book Outlines of Ancient and Modern History on a New Plan written by Royal Robbins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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Download or read book Heroes of Unwritten Story written by Henry Kraus and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early United Automobile Workers union comes vividly to life in this "participant's account" of the development of an organization that once embodied the promise of the American labor movement. Henry Kraus, a UAW founder and the foremost labor journalist of that time, combines interviews conducted more than fifty years ago with a decade of more recent archival research to present a richly detailed account of the union's beginnings. Kraus introduces scores of rank-and-file union members and leaders. Veteran organizer Wyndham Mortimer and labor pioneers Walter, Roy, and Victor Reuther, George Addes, Robert Travis, Ed Hall, and Richard Frankensteen - all are brought to life and depicted complete with personal virtues and individual foibles. The chronicle ends in 1939 as the author plans to start work on what would become his first hook, The Many and the Few.