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The Eastland Disaster (Images of America) List Price: $21.99 Sale Price: $14.35 Used From: $12.44

More than 7,000 people living in the Chicago area and Michigan City, Indiana, eagerly anticipated Saturday morning, July 24, 1915. This particular Saturday was going to be anything but a routine summer day...

Downey's Aerospace History:: 1947-1999 (Images of Aviation) List Price: $21.99 Sale Price: $12.75 Used From: $10.17

The city of Downey has been host to one of aerospace history’s most sacred sites. For more than six decades, men and women have gathered in this Los Angeles County town to make the dreams of tomorrow a reality—inventing the future and starting America’s journey to the stars...

Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers (IL) (Images of America) List Price: $21.99 Sale Price: $14.28 Used From: $9.43

Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for use as aircraft carrier training during World War II. Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qualified 17,800 pilots for aircraft carrier operation...

The Last Nazis: SS Werewolf Guerrilla Resistance in Europe 1944-1947 List Price: $32.50 Sale Price: $10.91 Used From: $3.88

Founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1944 when it became clear Germany would be invaded, the Werewolf guerrilla movement was given the task of slowing down the Allied advance to allow time for the success of negotiations, or "wonder weapons...

S.S. Badger: Lake Michigan Car Ferry (Images of America: Michigan) List Price: $21.99 Sale Price: $13.47 Used From: $3.50

One of the last operating coal-burning steamships in the world, the S.S. Badger provides travelers and their automobiles with what is now the only opportunity to ferry across Lake Michigan. Each summer, thousands of tourists enjoy sailing the 60-mile run between Ludington, Michigan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin...

Swiss Community of Adams County (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) List Price: $21.99 Sale Price: $13.94 Used From: $14.20

In the mid-19th century, many Swiss families fled their homeland in order to avoid the rigid restrictions placed on religious and political beliefs. Many found solace in the little town of Berne, Indiana, and in the surrounding communities of Adams County...

S.S. City of Midland 41 (MI) (Images of America) List Price: $21.99 Sale Price: $14.51 Used From: $13.06

The historic steamship City of Midland 41 sailed the waters of Lake Michigan for nearly half a century, transporting railroad cars, automobiles, and passengers. After her construction in 1941 by the revered Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, the nation's newspapers and newsreel services covered her launching and maiden voyage with enthusiastic flair...

SS City of Milwaukee (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) List Price: $21.99 Sale Price: $13.52 Used From: $13.83

After the Grand Trunk car ferry SS Milwaukee was lost with a crew of 52 men in an October 1929 storm, it was replaced by the SS City of Milwaukee. Built in 1931, the ferry operated for half a century, hauling loaded railcars across Lake Michigan...

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft List Price: $32.95 Sale Price: $18.69 Used From: $0.99

Behind one of the world's largest beauty and cosmetics companies lay some ugly secrets, which Monica Waitzfelder attempts to uncover in this compelling personal account. During World War II, as Jewish homes were being seized one after another, the Rosenfelder family was forced to flee the nation, leaving behind their jobs, their possessions, and their family home...