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Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
Amy Shira Teitel · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
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NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an important and rarely told tale. America's space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. At the end of World War II, Wernher... |
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
Richard J Evans · Viking
Pages: 928
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From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed... |
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The History Book
Dk Publishing. · DK Publishing
Pages: 352
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The History Book is a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and the big ideas behind each one, from the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today. One hundred crystal-clear articles explore the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Renaissance, the American... |
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Bernini: His Life and His Rome
Franco Mormando · Univ Of Chicago Press
Pages: 456
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Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo.... |
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Robert Gerwarth · Farrar
Pages: 464
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An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth centuryFor the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation,... |
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Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
J. Matthew Gallman · University of Georgia Press
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Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes... |
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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1
The United States Military Academy · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 339
Format: Print book |
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An outstanding new military history of the first half of World War II, featuring a rich array of images, exclusive graphics, superb new maps, and expert analysis commissioned by the United States Military Academy to teach the art of war to West Point cadets.Since 1836, United States Military... |
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The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
Tim White · Globe Pequot
Pages: 272
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On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with duffle bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels and high-end jewelry.... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands · Doubleday
Pages: 437
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Lenawee County and the Civil War
Ray Lennard · History Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback |
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Lenawee County was a hotbed for antislavery activities in the 1830s that translated into strong Union support in April 1861. Adrian, Tecumseh and Hudson sent hundreds of soldiers to fight and die in the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation propelled nearly fifty of the county's... |
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Scapegoat: A Flight Crew's Journey from Heroes to Villains to Redemption
Emilio Corsetti III · Odyssey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover |
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"This is the kind of case the Board has never had to deal with-a head-on collision between the credibility of a flight crew versus the airworthiness of the aircraft." NTSB Investigator-in-Charge Leslie Dean KampschrorOn April 4, 1979, a Boeing 727 with 82 passengers and a crew... |
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