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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
Steve Twomey · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible... |
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Midnight's Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition
John Keay · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 392
Format: Print book |
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Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants - the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India - are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous... |
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
D C B Lieven · Viking
Pages: 426
Format: Print book |
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"Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing." - Foreign AffairsOne of the world's... |
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Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure
Glenn Beck · Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover |
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Beck makes the case that when you're traveling in the wrong direction, slight course corrections won't cut it. He exposes the idea of "transformation" for the progressive smokescreen that it is, while maintaining that a return to individual rights, an uncompromising adherence... |
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The day of battle : the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Rick Atkinson · Henry Holt
Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and ItalyIn An Army at Dawn--winner of the Pulitzer Prize--Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic... |
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy Warren · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 345
Format: Print book |
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The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more... |
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Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Wendy Lower · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women... |
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A History of Food in 100 Recipes
William Sitwell · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A riveting narrative history of food as seen through 100 recipes, from ancient Egyptian bread to modernist cuisine.We all love to eat, and most people have a favorite ingredient or dish. But how many of us know where our much-loved recipes come from, who invented them, and how they were... |
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