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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945–1955
Ronald H Spector - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II -- and determined the fate of the continent.The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades... |
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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
Ali Humayun Akhtar - Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South... |
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Munich 1923
John Dornberg - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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The pivotal point in the rise of the Nazis in Germany: the Beerhall Putsch |
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The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Elliot Ackerman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacyElliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer... |
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Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
Beverly Lowry - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's life and perception of home.In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least... |
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Return to Uluru: The Hidden History of a Murder in Outback Australia
MARK MCKENNA - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Return to Uluru explores the cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia's white supremacy - the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark.Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South... |
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Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
Daniel Stone - Dutton
Format: Kindle Edition
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From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world's most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic On a frigid April night in 1912, the world's largest - and soon most famous - ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped... |
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
Rinker Buck - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, whose last book The Oregon Trail was a triumphant New York Times bestseller, Life on the Mississippi is another epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds an authentic wooden flatboat from the early... |
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