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New Titles - History
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900
Simon Schama · Ecco
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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In the second of three volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth centurySimon Schama's great project continues and the Jewish... |
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum · Doubleday
Pages: 461
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect... |
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Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past
Paul G Bahn · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux... |
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
KEVIN PERAINO · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day. In the opening months of 1949,... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
Richard Lloyd Parry · MCD
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan -- by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat DarknessOn March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast... |
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