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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
Jeffrey N Wasserstrom · Oxford University Press
Pages: 361
Format: Print book
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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading... |
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
J.D. Dickey · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Washington DC gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples a pulsing hub of political power and prowess But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen Before America became a world power in the twentieth century Washington City was an eyesore... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy · Little
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Rebecca Erbelding · Doubleday
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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America has long been criticized for refusing to give harbor to the Jews of Europe as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. Now a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar tells the extraordinary story of the War Refugee Board, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's little-known effort late in the war to save... |
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The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
Robert P Watson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later, during the war,... |
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The Civil War in 50 Objects
Harold Holzer · Viking; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects A fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom a soldiers diary with the pencil still attached to John Browns pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, a Confederate Palmetto flag, and the leaves from Abraham Lincolns bier, here... |
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom · Little, Brown and Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light.... |
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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War
David S. Cecelski · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery... |
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Revolution
Peter Ackroyd · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was -- again -- at war with France, a war that would end with... |
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
NELSON MANDELA · Liveright
Pages: 640
Format: eBook
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An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African... |
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