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Organizing Victory: The War Conferences 1941–1945
Andrew Rawson · Spellmount
Format: Book
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How decisions during World War II were made at the highest level, and how these decision affected every facet of the warTo understand the end result of World War II is to understand the leaders organizing the action from behind the scenes; from the main figureheads... |
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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
James Wright · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse... |
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Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials
Victor Ripp · Farrar
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hell's Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition... |
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Indochina and Vietnam: The Thirty-five Year War, 1940-1975
Robert Miller · Enigma Books
Format: Paperback
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The Indochina and Vietnam Wars followed one another over thirty-five years, from 1940 to 1975, yet these two closely related conflicts are usually treated separately. This book seeks to tell the story of those wars as a single historical event. Within days of France's defeat by Nazi... |
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Naming Jack the Ripper
Edwards Russell · Lyons Press
Format: Kindle Edition
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After 125 years of theorizing and speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards is in the unique position of owning the first physical evidence relating to the crimes to have emerged since 1888. This evidence is from one of the crime scenes, and has now been rigorously... |
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Classic baseball stories
Jeff Silverman · Lyons Press
Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply for the love of the game. Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime.... |
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Rose Gold: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Walter Mosley · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith,... |
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Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late
Joseph Cirincione · Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong -- these weapons, possessed... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before?In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from... |
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The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
Doug Rossinow · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this concise yet thorough history of America in the s Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagans presidency and the ideology of Reaganism Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy Reaganite conservatives in the s achieved impressive success in their... |
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The Family Tree Historical Maps Book: A State-by-State Atlas of US History, 1790-1900
Allison Dolan · Family Tree Books
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
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Journey Into the Past!Envision your ancestors' world--as your ancestors knew it--through hundreds of beautiful full-color reproductions of useful eighteenth and nineteenth century maps. The maps illustrate the historical boundaries of each of the U.S. states as they progressed from... |
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