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Captain's Log: War Stories on the Cedar River
As the armies established their bivouac on Friday night, a wicked storm swept in with wind gusts reported at 71 mph. One of the vehicles zipping around the Captain's Book Shoppe bookselling tent was a Kübelwagen.


Captain's Log: Iowa's Call to Guard the Mexican Border 1916-1917
circa. 1917 original book made in Iowa City about Iowa National Guard activation in the shadow of WWI.


Captain's Log: History on the Cedar River - the Trilogy
WWII Remembered 2023: Midwest reenactors browse Captain's Book Shoppe military history.


Captain's Log: A Few Books and the Mystery of the Hidden Room
By Jeffrey A. Rothermel August 25, 2022 Secret rooms were things I read about in Hardy Boy novels as a kid. I spent my youthful summers reading the pseudo-reality adventures by the numerous ghost writers known as Franklin W. Dixon. Later in my life, secret rooms were places we looked for and searched during counter-insurgency operations while serving in the U.S. Army. Today, as a bookdealer my packed schedule had nothing on it about the Hardy Boys and secret rooms. Today,


Captain's Log: History on the Cedar River
Cedar Rapids, Iowa August 20, 2022 History on the Cedar River Split-based Operations August 20, 2022: Second World War U.S. Army reenactors on patrol at Seminole Vally Farm Museum, 1400 Seminole Valley Road, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52311. Historians study how our historical interpretations change over time. The history of history is called historiography (the study of historical writing). Not everyone learns from a book. There are various types of learners. Some are visual l





























































































