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In Advance of Fate
Charles E. Heller · Star Cloud Press
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
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"Read how one man with vision and courage profoundly changed America's landscape during the Civil War. We are indebted to Heller for uncovering this unheralded heroic figure. A great American story. " General Richard B. Myers Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and currently... |
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A Concise History of Switzerland
Clive H. Church · Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces the historical and cultural development of this fascinating... |
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Wilfred Owen
Guy Cuthbertson · Yale University Press
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
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One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and conduct. He left behind a body... |
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Â Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Readers Circle for author chats and more.In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious... |
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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Amanda Vaill · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 436
Format: Print book
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A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil WarMadrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe -- a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" -- six people meet and find their... |
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Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
Wendy W. Fairey · Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Wendy Fairey grew up among books. As the shy and studious daughter of famed Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham - F. Scott Fitzgerald's lover during the last years of his life - she began as a child reading her way through the library Fitzgerald had assembled for her mother and escaped... |
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Eric Jager · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled... |
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen · Dutton
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused... |
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Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682
Robert Goodwin · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change--it was a time... |
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Paul Ham · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people... |
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