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Eisenhower at War 1943-1945

David Eisenhower · Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945, by Eisenhower, David
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Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Führer

Walter Shapiro · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, the true life story of how his great-uncle a Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con man managed to cheat Hitler s agents in the run-up to WWII. All his life, journalist Walter Shapiro assumed that the outlandish stories about his great-uncle...
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Cruel Death

M. William Phelps · Pinnacle; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

"Phelps is one of America's finest true-crime writers." --Vincent Bugliosi "Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." -Allison BrennanIt was Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season. Thousands headed to Ocean City, Maryland, to enjoy its scenic...
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Filthy Rich

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...
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Stronger

Jeff Bauman · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words:...
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They're playing our song : a memoir

Carole Bayer Sager · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with some of the greatest composers and musical...
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Once a Cop: My Journey from Former Crack Dealer to the Highest Ranks of the NYPD

Corey Pegues · Atria Books, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer - a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they are meant to protect.Corey Pegues has lived on both sides of the law. At the height of the 1980s...
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA

John Rizzo · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Book

From the "most influential career lawyer in CIA history" (Los Angeles Times) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the U.S. government's intelligence program (1976-2009).In 1975, fresh out of law school and working...
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The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour-and the

Sheila Weller · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Weller rivetingly recounts these gutsy ladies' time on the front lines... an inspiration for future generations of journalists." --Vanity FairFor decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women - Diane Sawyer,...
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The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi

Kevin Lacz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle. Experience his deployment, from his first mission to his first kill to his eventual successful return to the United States to play himself in the Oscar-nominated...
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A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer

Scott Andrew Selby · Berkley Caliber
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror.This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich. For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed...
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A Very Principled Boy: The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior

Mark A Bradley · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback

Duncan Chaplin Lee was a Rhodes Scholar, patriot, and descendent of one of America's most distinguished families - and possibly the best-placed mole ever to infiltrate U.S. intelligence operations. In A Very Principled Boy intelligence expert and former CIA officer Mark A. Bradley traces...
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The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill

Greg Mitchell · Crown
Pages: 382
Format: Print book

A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers,...
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Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged

William C. Davis · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

They met in person only four times, yet these two men - Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - determined the outcome of America's most divisive war and cast larger-than-life shadows over their reunited nation. They came from vastly different backgrounds: Lee from a distinguished family...
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Hank : the short life and long country road of hank williams

Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father.After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic...
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