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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
SAM KASHNER · Harper Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger... |
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Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated History
LORNA OAKES · Lorenz Books Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover
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The allure of ancient Egypt has endured over many centuries - and this authoritative volume offers furtherintriguing insights. It delves into the tombs, devoting chapters to the most famous burial sites: Giza, Saqqaraand the Valley of the Kings, where the resting place of the boy-king Tutankhamun... |
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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
Alan Walker · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 768 Format: Hardcover
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A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life... |
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including... |
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The Priest Barracks: Dachau 1938 - 1945
GUILLAUME ZELLER · Ignatius Press Pages: 280 Format: Paperback
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At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men imprisoned in these barracks were Catholics - 2,579 priests, monks, and seminarians from all over Europe. More than a third of the prisoners... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster Pages: 896 Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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A History of France
JOHN JULIUS NORWICH · Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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John Julius Norwich -- called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore -- returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France: a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best. Beginning with... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS · Harper Pages: 752 Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY · Simon & Schuster Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George... |
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