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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
Mark Kurlansky · Ballantine Books
Pages: 464
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In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing... |
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Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography
Peter Barberie · Philadelphia Museum Distribution; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Through his amazing variety of innovative images, photographer Paul Strand 18901976 played a crucial role in establishing the mediums significance as a modern art form. Celebrating the Philadelphia Museum of Arts recent acquisition of the core collection of Strands prints from the Paul... |
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Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend
Joann Fletcher · Harper
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover |
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"Joann Fletcher has the good grace and specialist knowledge to do away with Roman romances. This book's bedrock is Egyptology. . . . Cleopatra was, indeed, not just a 'baleful beauty;' she was great." - History Today World-renowned Egyptologist Joann Fletcher offers... |
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Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz
Jolene Babyak · Ariel Vamp Pr
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback |
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Taut, suspenseful account of June 1962 Alcatraz "escape of the century" when three men disappeared. Showing security lapses, staff morale, moderizations, building deteriorations and risky behavoir which led to the closing of the Rock. |
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Rick Atkinson · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished... |
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The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Philippa Gregory · Touchstone; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor... |
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