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Summary of Rick McIntyre's The Reign of Wolf 21
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#1 I had worked for the Wolf Project in Yellowstone in the spring of 1998, and had transferred to a summer job with the Druid pack in January 2000. I had grown up in New England, and was used to harsh winters.... |
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Summary of Guy de la Bédoyère's Praetorian
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#1 After the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, Octavian rose to power. He used military force to defeat the tyrannicides Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and then eliminated his erstwhile... |
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Summary of William R. Trotter's A Frozen Hell
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#1 The Karelian Isthmus is a land bridge between Russia and Scandinavia, and has been a highway for tribal migrations, a conduit for trade, and a springboard for conquest. The Isthmus has been a battleground... |
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Summary of John Winton's Carrier Glorious
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#1 The Baltic Project was never carried out, but many of the ships for it were built, including three light cruisers named Furious, Courageous, and Glorious. Their names were reversed commas.
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Summary of Richard White's Who Killed Jane Stanford?
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#1 On January 14, 1905, Jane Stanford, the wealthiest woman in San Francisco, was murdered in her bedroom. She was 76 years old and the cofounder of Leland Stanford Junior University. She was never alone,... |
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Summary of Shane Ryan's The Cup They Couldn't Lose
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#1 In Australia, the capital city, Sydney, was experiencing such bad air quality that just breathing the city's air for a day was the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarettes. The Ryder Cup was set to be played... |
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Summary of Dean King's The Feud
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#1 Before the Civil War, the Tug River Valley was largely ignored by the outside world. There were no roads, no rails, no schools, and no churches there. The transcontinental telegraph system, which crossed... |
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Crossing Continents
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The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistory. These were initially between India and its Indus... |
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Summary of Phillip Thomas Tucker's Exodus from the Alamo
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#1 The traditional view of the Alamo defenders is that they were the highest minded of freedom fighters who died in defense of liberty, republican government, and democratic principles. However, many of the men who fought... |
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Summary of Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day
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#1 The village of La Roche-Guyon was occupied by German soldiers in June 1944. It was the most occupied village in all of occupied France. Every one of the 543 villagers was guarded by more than three German... |
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