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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Konrad H. Jarausch · Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover |
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued... |
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover |
Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise... |
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A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
Maury Klein · Bloomsbury Press Format: Hardcover |
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the worlds history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents-and to do so it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before... |
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The Kennedy Years: From the Pages of The New York Times
Richard Reeves (Editor) · Harry N. Abrams |
The year 2013 is the 50th anniversary year of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who still ranks as one of the top five presidents in every major annual survey. To commemorate the man and his time in office, the New York Times has authorized a book, edited by Richard Reeves, based... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein · Vintage |
At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Operation Massacre
Rodolfo Walsh , · Seven Stories Press |
1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956 eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. December 1956 sometime journalist, crime fiction writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado... |
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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
James Ciment · Hill and Wang |
The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africas first republicIn 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner... |
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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Max Hastings · Harper Pages: 610 Format: Print book |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes... |
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