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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impactThe United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika... |
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The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present
McNab, Chris
Format: Hardcover
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The complete and illustrated history of Russia's armed forces from the Russian Revolution until the present day, covering both their involvement in pivotal historical events and in current controversial conflicts.From the chaos of the civil war to the political maneuvering of the Cold... |
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
Gareth Russell · Atria Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought... |
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Escape from Paris: A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France
Stephen Harding
Format: Hardcover
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This book is The Nightingale meets All the Light We Cannot See, only it's all true--a thrilling wartime adventure story of downed American aviators rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the GestapoEscape from Paris is the true... |
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The Movie Musical!
Basinger, Jeanine · Knopf
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies.Leading... |
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They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
Verini, James · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"They Will Have to Die Now is the story of what happened after most Americans stopped paying attention to Iraq ... It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades." -- George Packer, author of Our Man and The Assassins' GateJames Verini arrived... |
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