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Don't Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Chris Mackowski · Savas Beatie
Pages: 169
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George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpectedly into command of the Army of the Potomac, which was cautiously stalking its long-time foe, the Army of Northern Virginia, as it launched a bold invasion northward. Meade had hardly wrapped... |
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The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Peter Eichstaedt · Chicago Review Press
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Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America's legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting... |
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Pickett's Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack
Phillip Thomas Tucker · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 456
Format: Print book |
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Main Selection of the History Book ClubThe Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself America's bloodiest conflict. On the third day of fierce fighting, Robert E. Lee's attempt... |
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The Hundred Years War: A People's History
Dr. David Green · Yale University Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The Hundred Years War 13371453 dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways... |
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Russia: Putin's Playground: Empire, Revolution, & the New Tsar
Anastasia Edel · Lightning Guides
Pages: 118
Format: Print book |
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Empire, Revolution, and the New Tsar Is Russia in the hands of a lunatic? Ever since Vladimir Putin's presidential incarnation, pundits and political analysts have asked this question with increasing frequency. Known for his aggressive politics abroad, and irresponsible despotism... |
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Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football
John U. Bacon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover |
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Endzone tells the story of how college football's most successful, richest and respected program almost lost all three in less than a decade - and entirely of its own doing. It is a story of hubris, greed, and betrayal - a tale more suited to Wall Street than the world's top public... |
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Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion
Jacqueline Riding · Bloomsbury
Pages: 608
Format: Print book |
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The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie," and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James... |
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
Judith Flanders · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian CityThe idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true... |
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Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
Jonathan Haslam · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet intelligence from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War.Previous histories have focused on the KGB, leaving... |
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