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The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
John C. McManus - NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought... |
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Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund
Arnie Bernstein - St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the late 1930s, the German-American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement in pre-World War II America, determined to conquer the United States government with a fascist dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden... |
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The Spanish Armada
Robert Hutchinson - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence... |
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Eleanor
David Michaelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired... |
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The Journalist: Life and Loss in America's Secret War
Jerry A. Rose - SparkPress
Format: Paperback
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Jerry Rose, a young journalist and photographer in Vietnam, exposed the secret beginnings of America's Vietnam War in the early 1960s. Putting his life in danger, he interviewed Vietnamese villagers in a countryside riddled by a war of terror and intimidation and embedded himself with... |
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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
Richard Branson - Portfolio; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the worlds ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story.. Richard Bransons Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history. No challenge... |
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When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington
Peter Snow - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world’s greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal... |
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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