Someone at school is worshipping a baby spirit! In order to prevent young love from running rampant, the school implemented a "dating ban." This created a very tense atmosphere at school. Yangda, a high school boy, believes that there are secrets behind every urban legend. In order to find out who is pretending to be a ghost, he decides to hold a ritual to summon baby spirits! However, he's wrapped up in the ghastly crime at school…

Someone at school is worshipping a baby spirit! In order to prevent young love from running rampant, the school implemented a "dating ban." This created a very tense atmosphere at school. Yangda, a high school boy, believes that there are secrets behind every urban legend. In order to find out who is pretending to be a ghost, he decides to hold a ritual to summon baby spirits! However, he's wrapped up in the ghastly crime at school…

Someone at school is worshipping a baby spirit! In order to prevent young love from running rampant, the school implemented a "dating ban." This created a very tense atmosphere at school. Yangda, a high school boy, believes that there are secrets behind every urban legend. In order to find out who is pretending to be a ghost, he decides to hold a ritual to summon baby spirits! However, he's wrapped up in the ghastly crime at school…

Someone at school is worshipping a baby spirit! In order to prevent young love from running rampant, the school implemented a "dating ban." This created a very tense atmosphere at school. Yangda, a high school boy, believes that there are secrets behind every urban legend. In order to find out who is pretending to be a ghost, he decides to hold a ritual to summon baby spirits! However, he's wrapped up in the ghastly crime at school…

Someone at school is worshipping a baby spirit! In order to prevent young love from running rampant, the school implemented a "dating ban." This created a very tense atmosphere at school. Yangda, a high school boy, believes that there are secrets behind every urban legend. In order to find out who is pretending to be a ghost, he decides to hold a ritual to summon baby spirits! However, he's wrapped up in the ghastly crime at school…

"Help[s] readers to examine this period in history with a more cultural perspective than other books have . . . clear, concise, and crisp . . . fascinating" ( San Francisco Book Review).• During the final days of the war, some Richmond citizens would throw "Starvation Parties," soirees at which elegantly attired guests gathered amid the finest silver and crystal tableware, though there were usually no refreshments except water.• Union Rear-Admiral Go...

Product Description: To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923–1940, by Professor Albert A. Nofi, examines in detail, making extensive use of the Naval War College archives, each of the U.S. Navy’s twenty-one “fleet problems” conducted between World Wars I and II, elucidating the patterns that emerged, finding a range of enduring lessons, and suggesting their applicability of for future naval warfare.

It was a small war -- probably no more than 2,500 men were ever engaged in a single action, both sides taken together. It was a short war too, lasting only about seven months. And it was fought in what was, at the time, one of the most obscure corners of the earth. Yet the Texas War for Independence has become a heroic conflict of legendary proportions.Very few balanced accounts of Texas's epic struggle for independence have been written. Here historian Albert A. Nofi provides a splendid c...

On March 29, 1863, 12-year-old Frederick Grant, the eldest son of Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, arrived at his father’s headquarters at Young’s Point, Louisiana. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee was preparing to move against Vicksburg, Mississippi, and young Fred had no intention of missing out on the adventure. His incredible journey would consume more than three months and would not end until shortly after the surrender of the Confederate bastion on the Fourth of July. Posterity is the ...

James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi's Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive reality in a clear, concise manner.Containing more than two hundred examinations of different aspects of the war, the book questions why the American military ignored the lessons taught by previous encounters with insurgency forces; probes the use of group think and...

The #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo."Probably the best of all Alamo accounts . . . a history which should last." — The New York Times Book ReviewLooking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Bruce Catton's acclaimed two-book biography of complex and controversial Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.New York Times BestsellersIn these two comprehensive and engaging volumes, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton follows the wartime movements of Ulysses S. Grant, detailing the Union commander's bold tactics and his relentless dedication to achieving the North's victory ...