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A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge
Charles Brown MacDonald · William Morrow & Co; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieveing what had been considered impossible -- total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ARTHUR PH D HERMAN · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Though they were men of very different backgrounds and experiences, Herman reveals how Wilson and Lenin were very much... |
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Stephen R Platt · Knopf
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Opium War--a vivid narrative of the earliest Western efforts to open China to trade and the resulting war that ensured the decline of imperial China.When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest... |
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
BRIAN VANDEMARK · Custom House
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much... |
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They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of #blacklivesmatter
Wesley Lowery · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The first book to go behind the barricades of #blacklivesmatter to tell the story of the young men and women who are calling for a new America. In a closely reported book that draws on his own experience as a young biracial journalist, "Washington Post "reporter Wesley Lowery... |
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Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story
Simon Wiesenthal · William Morrow & Co; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Relates the remarkable story of two Holocaust survivors who persuaded Wiesenthal not to pursue their Nazi tormentor, Werner Schultze |
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
JIM DEFELICE · William Morrow
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover
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"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK," hails True West: The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich and rollicking new history"One can hear horse hooves pounding across the prairie and sense the fear and courage and excitement."... |
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Tin Cans and Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars
Clint Johnson · Regnery History
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged "against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected." Those were the words Lieutenant Commander Robert Copeland calmly told his crew as their tiny, unarmored destroyer... |
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