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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.
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Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971–2017
Simon Reid-Henry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover
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The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day, Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo... |
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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What really happened in 1969?
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their... |
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Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
Robert Jan van Pelt · Abbeville Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people -- mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others -- lost their lives. More than 280 objects... |
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
RAYMOND ARSENAULT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.
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Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
Oliver Hilmes · Other Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A lively account of the 1936 Olympics told through the voices and stories of those who witnessed it, from an award-winning historian and biographer
Berlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympiad, describing the events in the German capital through the eyes... |
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Victoria: A Life
A N Wilson · Penguin Books
Pages: 642
Format: Print book
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"[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography." - The Guardian (London) When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children's marriages.... |
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