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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

Kate Summerscale · Penguin Press
Pages: 378
Format: Print book

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

"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

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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The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages

James Cook · Voyageur Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals.This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific...
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century

William F Jr Buckley · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

Patrick K O'Donnell · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 463
Format: Print book

In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a sudden and disastrous end. General George Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, and it looked...
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A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age

Greg Jenner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock?Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals...
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