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Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog

Lloyd Handwerker · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From a Nickel to an Empire Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nathan Handwerker. An Eastern European Jewish immigrant who left the small provincial world he knew for a fresh start in America, Nathan arrived at Ellis Island...
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates...
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Submarines at War: The History of the American Silent Service

Edwin Palmer Hoyt · Stein & Day Pub
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover

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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

Robert Gerwarth · Farrar
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth centuryFor the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation,...
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The Modern Explorers

Robin Hanbury-Tenison · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. This title deals with this topic.
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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Giles Milton · Picador
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every...
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Pueblo deco

Carla Breeze · Rizzoli International Publications
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Beautiful color photographs and a descriptive text survey examples of an architecture and design style developed in the southwestern US in the early 20th century. A design style that combines Old West motifs from Indian and Hispanic culture with art deco sensibilities.
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FIGHTING WITH THE FILTHY THIRTEEN: The World War II Story of Jack Womer-Ranger and Paratrooper

Jack Womer · Casemate
Format: Hardcover

In 2004 the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division (and the inspiration for the movie "The Dirty Dozen").In this long awaited work one of the squad's integral members-and...
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Civil War in Apacheland: Sergeant George Hand's Diary, 1861-1864

George Hand · High-Lonesome Books
Format: Hardcover

The publication of Whiskey, Six-Guns and Red-Light Ladies in 1994 introduced readers to the ribald 1870s diary of frontier saloon keeper, George Hand. More than a decade earlier, George Hand kept another spirited journal, this one recording his service with the Union Army. Marching from...
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A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization

Stephen Kershaw · Running Press Book Publishers ; London
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

From Gladiator to 300, the true history of the classical world is revealed here and will include everything you need to know including: Why was Julius Caesar assassinated? Who were the Spartans? Where does democracy come from? Despite centuries of history, the ancient world still has a powerful...
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Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys of the 8th Air Force Saved World War II

Kevin Wilson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

The heroic, dramatic, and sometimes tragic history of how the US 8th Air Force changed the course of World War II. The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February -- targeting German aircraft...
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park

Jack Lynch · Walker & Company; First Edition edition
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For language buffs and lexicographers, copy editors and proofreaders, and anyone who appreciates the connection between language and culture—the illuminating story of “proper English.” In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers—those who have...
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Bodie: California Ghostown

Brian Leng · Authorhouse
Pages: 35
Format: Print book

The town of Bodie, was to say the least was an exciting and exhilarating place in its hey- day where people were came with hopes and dreams of a better way of life. It's now a testament to what life was like during the California Gold Rush days. Hopefully it will remain a reminder of days...
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Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

Howard Blum · HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Pages: 474
Format: Hardcover

Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American...
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Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War

Virginia Nicholson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that...
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