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Egyptomania: A History of  Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Ronald H Fritze · Reaktion Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The land of pyramids and sphinxes, pharaohs and goddesses, Egypt has been a source of awe and fascination from the time of the ancient Greeks to the twenty-first century. In Egyptomania, Ronald H. Fritze takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the past, a place inhabited...
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The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan

Gregg Zoroya · Da Capo
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A single company of US paratroopers - calling themselves the "Chosen Few" - arrived in eastern Afghanistan in late 2007 hoping to win the hearts and minds of the remote mountain people and extend the Afghan government's reach into this wilderness. Instead, they spent the next...
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Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937

Michael Dennis · Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover

On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargaining. By the end of the day,...
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The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

Mike Rapport · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War,...
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Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s

Stanley Nelson · Louisiana State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building...
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Pickett's Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack

Phillip Thomas Tucker · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 456
Format: Print book

Main Selection of the History Book ClubThe Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself America's bloodiest conflict. On the third day of fierce fighting, Robert E. Lee's attempt...
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade

Henry Finder · Random House
Pages: 752
Format: Print book

The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century - including pieces by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike - alongside...
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Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks

Katharine Capshaw · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw's Civil Rights Childhood...
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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

David J Silverman · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks...
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Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War

Peter Conradi · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover

"Balanced and timely ... a smooth narrative that provides welcome context for Russia's recent revanchist behavior and insight into prospects for ongoing U.S.-Russian relations." -- ?Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Meticulously lays out the record, from Mikhail...
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Return of the Dambusters: The Exploits of World War II's Most Daring Flyers After the Flood

John Nichol · The Overlook Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

RAF 617 Squadron, World War II's famous Dambusters, have been celebrated in books and movies for their triumphant destruction of the dams at the heart of the industrial Ruhr. But the operations after their most famous raid have been largely forgotten, even though they were often more audacious,...
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Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648

Mark Greengrass · Viking; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable new volume in the critically acclaimed Penguin History of Europe seriesFrom peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century. Martin Luthers challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs...
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The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace

Susan L Carruthers · Harvard University Press
Pages: 386
Format: Print book

Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's "good war." Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japan's surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to postwar...
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