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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 613 Format: Hardcover
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction.Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty... |
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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Bethlehem: Biography of a Town
Nicholas Blincoe · Nation Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable history of the beloved little town published in time for the holidays Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city even to those who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson · Simon & Schuster Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers · Simon & Schuster Pages: 651 Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young... |
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA · Liveright Pages: 525 Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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They Came for Freedom: The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
Jay Milbrandt · Thomas Nelson Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history.Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
EDWARD L AYERS · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian.Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace with a rich soil and an enslaved workforce, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies... |
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