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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Kate Summerscale · Penguin Press Pages: 378 Format: Print book
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From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era LondonIn the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days... |
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Advocating Overlord: The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb
Philip Padgett · Potomac Books Pages: 379 Format: Hardcover
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"Well there it is. It won't work, but you must bloody well make it," said the chief of Britain's military leaders, when he gave orders to begin planning for what became known as Operation Overlord. While many view D-Day as one of the most successful operations of World... |
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Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu
Amy Cox Hall · University of Texas Press Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable... |
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
William F Jr Buckley · Crown Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique... |
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Rust: The Longest War
Jonathan Waldman · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year It has been called "the great destroyer" and "the evil." The Pentagon refers to it as "the pervasive menace." It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house... |
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City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis
Keith Gessen · n + 1 Format: Print book
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From its first shock waves in 2008, the Great Recession has been reshaping American cities. Detroit collapsed, and the ongoing national rollback in industry has meant the death of factory towns like Greensboro, North Carolina and Reading, Pennsylvania. But the effects of the crash have... |
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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Carolyn Forché · Penguin Press Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fireWhat You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation,... |
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig Nelson · Scribner Pages: 532 Format: Print book
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Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.The America we live in today was born, not on July... |
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Gordon W Prange · Penguin Books Pages: 889 Format: Paperback
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At 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S. Naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. As intense and absorbing as a suspense novel, At Dawn We Slept is the unparalleled and exhaustive... |
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Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization
Elena Conis · University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American... |
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