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Gettysburg's Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the "Commanding Ground" Along the Emmitsburg Road

James A. Hessler · Savas Beatie
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

More books have been written about the battle of Gettysburg than any other engagement of the Civil War. The historiography of the battle's second day is usually dominated by the Union's successful defense of Little Round Top, but the day's most influential action occurred nearly...
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The Moon Landings: One Giant Leap

Colin Salter · Flame Tree Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Since Apollo 11's first ground-breaking moon landing in 1969, the world has been engrossed in space exploration and infinitely curious about how we got there and what might be next. What enables us to break free from Earth's gravitational well? What does it take to become an astronaut...
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The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

Jack Fairweather · Custom House
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

"Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us - as if watching a movie - the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion, and then snuck back out. We are squarely confronted with the other...
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Navy SEALs: The Combat History of the Deadliest Warriors on the Planet

Don Mann · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In a world where acts of terror have become all too commonplace, America has turned to the elite warriors of special operations to lead the fight and hunt down those whose very ideology is one of hate for everything our nation stands for. Among those units one stands apart from the rest,...
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The Murder of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval: A Portrait of the Assassin

Martin Connolly · Pen and Sword History
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

England entered the nineteenth century having lost the American states and was at war with France. The slave trade had been halted and the country was in torment, with industrialization throwing men and women out of work as poverty haunted their lives. As the merchants of England and America...
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The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record

Jonathan Scott · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the mission, music, and message of NASA's Voyager Golden Record--humanity's message to the stars.In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. They...
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The Genocide of the Boers

Stephen Mitford Goodson · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback

The Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) remains unique in the annals of modern history. For the first time in the modern era, war was deliberately waged by a supposedly civilized nation on innocent women and children. Not only were Dutch settler (Boer) homes destroyed by the British...
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe

James Holland · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th...
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Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary

Jonathan M. Hansen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world.This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro. Until now, biographers have treated Castro's life like prosecutors,...
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

JonMeacham · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw...
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