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Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball
Augustus V Ball · State House Press Pages: 523 Format: Hardcover
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"Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball" is not a typical Civil War letter collection. Ball's circumstances and experiences allowed him to glimpse the war through two sets of eyes, that of a loving husband, and of an increasingly disillusioned... |
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The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Jeremy Scahill · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Major revelations about the US government's drone program - bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly, it offers... |
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All the President's Men
Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated Pages: 361 Format: Print book
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The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, now with a 40th anniversary Afterword on the legacies of Watergate and Richard Nixon. This is the book that changed America. Published... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker · Simon & Schuster Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK · Viking Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant AmbitionIn the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British... |
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Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space
Gary Kitmacher · Smithsonian Books Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versaSpace stations represent both the summit of space technology and, possibly, the future of humanity beyond Earth. Space Stations:... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 681 Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Hampton Sides · Anchor Books Pages: 344 Format: Paperback
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On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans · Portfolio Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now.Women... |
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Great Maps
DK · DK Format: Hardcover
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The world's finest maps explored and explained. From Ptolemy's world map to the Hereford's Mappa Mundi, through Mercator's map of the world to the latest maps of the Moon and Google Earth, Great Maps provides a fascinating overview of cartography through the ages. Revealing... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 310 Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each... |
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Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe
Martin J Dougherty · Amber Books Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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"They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses... They embalm the heads... [and]... display them with pride to strangers." - Diodorus Siculus. Before the Vikings, before the Anglo-Saxons, before the Roman Empire, the Celts dominated... |
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher · Pegasus Books Pages: 496 Format: Print book
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The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army
Evelyn Amony · The University of Wisconsin Press, Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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Abducted at the age of eleven, Evelyn Amony spent nearly eleven years inside the Lord's Resistance Army, becoming a forced wife to Joseph Kony and mother to his children. She takes the reader into the inner circles of LRA commanders and reveals unprecedented personal and domestic details... |
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