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A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Geoffrey Wawro · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover |
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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared... |
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A History of New York in 101 Objects
Sam Roberts · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover |
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The vibrant story of Americas great metropolis, told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, all reproduced in luscious, full color. A wooden water barrel and an elevator brake. A Checker taxicab and a conductors baton. An oyster and a mastodon tusk. Inspired... |
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Timothy Snyder · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 462
Format: Print book |
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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first.... |
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Double Down: Game Change 2012
Mark Halperin · Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover |
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Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times:"Those hungry for political news will read Double Down for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans and Democrats for 2016 ... The book... |
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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup · Engage Books
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Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton... |
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Year Zero: A History of 1945
Ian Buruma · Penguin Press HC, The; First edition
Format: Print book |
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A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change... |
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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
David Runciman · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves · Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Pages: 342
Format: Print book |
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Wil Haygood · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional... |
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