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War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
IRIS ORIGO · NYRB Classics Pages: 320 Format: Paperback
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A bestseller upon its original publication in the 1980s, these diaries reveal life during WWII in Tuscany and include stunning rediscovered photographsIn the Second World War, Italy was torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman - born... |
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The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire
DEBORAH BAKER · Graywolf Press Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in IndiaJohn Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers -- W. H. Auden... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict journalist C.J. Chivers follows the arcs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the experiences of those who fought them, as Stephen Ambrose did for the grunts of WWII, and Michael Herr's classic Dispatches did for Vietnam.Almost 2.5 million Americans... |
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Secret Treasure of Oak Island: The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt
D'ARCY O'CONNOR · Lyons Press Pages: 304 Format: Paperback
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It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have left part of his treasure somewhere... |
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Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music
PAUL KILDEA · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.In November 1838, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They... |
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De Gaulle
Julian Jackson · Belknap Press Pages: 928 Format: Hardcover
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A definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile and inspiring leader put his broken nation back at the center of world... |
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The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
Janet Elizabeth Croon · Savas Beatie Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty 12-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860--just as secession and the Civil War began... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher · Penguin Books Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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