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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee

SAM KASHNER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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

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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Air Battles over the Baltic 1941: The Air War on 22 June 1941 - The Battle for Stalin's Baltic Region

Mikhail Timin · Helion and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

This unique work is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the condition of the air forces of the Red Army prior to the Nazi invasion of 22 June 1941. The author describes in detail the composition and the capabilities of the Soviet aviation alignment in the Baltic Special Military...
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A History of France

JOHN JULIUS NORWICH · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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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