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The Moon Landings: One Giant Leap
Colin Salter · Flame Tree Publishing Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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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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Navy SEALs: The Combat History of the Deadliest Warriors on the Planet
Don Mann · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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