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Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence - one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one of the most... |
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Medal of Honor: True Stories of America's Most Decorated Military Heroes
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling Walk in My Combat Boots salute America's most courageous military heroes. From the storied battlefields of American military action, here are vivid, authentic stories from the men and women who gave themselves - and even their lives... |
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
Charles King - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah. George Frideric Handel's Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory... |
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The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
Adrian Bliss - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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"All at once funny, touching, dazzlingly informative and fascinating, brilliantly imaginative and altogether wonderful. Capable of switching between divine silliness and genuinely tender sweetness, tragedy, and wonder." - STEPHEN FRY. History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full... |
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time -- and the lawmen tasked with rooting them out.. Robbers Roost, Brown's Hole, and Hole-in-the-Wall were three hideouts... |
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
Justene Hill Edwards - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman's Bank has shaped economic inequality in America.In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans... |
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Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
Jack Weatherford - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover
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Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.. Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time... |
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
Emily Herring - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers... |
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