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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI

PETER HERNON · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe - a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe...
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TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

David Pietrusza · Lyons Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

An amazingly fresh approach to a much covered subject ... .TR's Last War is a riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating...
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Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper

LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO · Greenhill Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.In June 1941, when Hitler...
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain

Marc Morris · Pegasus Books
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris...
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Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

Jan Ru?ger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come...
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

MATTHEW SWEET · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to the heart of the Washington establishmentStockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam....
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The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art

Paul Bahn · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new researchWhere is the world's very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting...
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Forget "Having It All": How America Messed Up Motherhood--and How to Fix It

Amy Westervelt · Seal Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A clear-eyed look at the history of American ideas about motherhood, how those ideas have impacted all women (whether they have kids or not) , and how to fix the inequality that exists as a result.After filing a story only two hours after giving birth, and then getting straight back...
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Greater than Ever: New York's Big Comeback

Daniel L Doctoroff · PublicAffairs
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff led New York's dramatic and unexpected economic resurgence after the September 11 terrorist attacks. With Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he developed a remarkably ambitious five-borough economic development plan to not only recover from the attacks but to completely...
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Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

Porter Fox · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A quest to rediscover America's other border -- the fascinating but little-known northern one.America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's primary border for centuries -- much of the early...
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First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun

David Harsanyi · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From "one of America's smartest political writers" (Glenn Beck) comes a fascinating and accessible history of the United States' unique and enduring relationship with guns, for fans of Chris Kyle's American Gun.For America, the gun is a story of innovation, power,...
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Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

Jozef Czapski · NYRB Classics
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

A classic work of reportage about the Katy? Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the atrocity himself.In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of Poles - men, women, and children who were starving, sickly, and impoverished - were released...
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On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time

CARL CANNON · Twelve
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Forget what you were taught in seventh grade - Carl Cannon's ON THIS DATE takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}...
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City

Stephen Alford · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century.For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing...
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin

Joseph Kelly · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious...
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