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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI
PETER HERNON · Harper Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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