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1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls
Winston Groom · Atlantic Monthly Press; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders comes a riveting chronicle of America's most critical hour. On December 7, 1941, an unexpected attack on American territory pulled an unprepared country into a terrifying new brand of warfare with a ruthless enemy. Novelist and popular... |
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A Brief History of India
Kenneth F. Hurry · Inner Traditions; 1 edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Dani鬯u's powerful rebuttal to the conventional view of India's history, which calls for a massive reevaluation of the history of humanity• Explores historical occurrences from each major time period starting with the first appearance of man 30,000 years ago• Couples... |
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The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan M. Katz · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; 1st edition
Format: Book
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Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan AwardWinner of the Washington Office on Latin America/Duke Human Rights Book AwardWinner of the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress AwardFinalist for the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFinalist for the New York Public... |
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
James Romm · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.The story of Alexanders conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic... |
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Hampton Sides · Doubleday
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Praise for Blood and ThunderKit Carsons role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West,... |
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Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America
Les Standiford · Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no federal databases of crimes against children. His abduction and murder—unsolved for more than a quarter of a century—forever changed America. Shocked by Adams murder and the inability of the police and FBI to find... |
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
John Gribbin · Random House; 1st U.S. edition, edition
Pages: 647
Format: Hardcover
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A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s CatIn this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories... |
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Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson · Books on Tape
Format: Audiobook
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery-and make history themselves.For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler,... |
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A family in Paris : stories of food, life and adventure
Jane Paech; Lachlan Boyle · Penguin
Format: Hardcover
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A frank, funny, and insightful account of an Australian family's new life in Paris When Australian Jane Paech moves to Paris, her visions of afternoons in bijou bistros and bookshops on the Left Bank are kept in check by the needs of a young family and a long to-do list that includes apartment-hunting,... |
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Vietnam, The Decisive Battles
John Pimlott · Macmillan Publishing Company
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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This pictorial-narrative book accurately reflects the way it was and will be meaningful for those Veterans who were there, their families and anyone interested in capsulizing significant conflicts. |
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